When Competition Is Cooked, Consumers Are Toast

“Imagine the power company offering you a shared electricity plan but charging you more for every device you plug into an outlet,” Wood said. “It makes no sense for consumers — and it’s all about dollars and cents for Verizon. The main goal of these new plans is to get consumers sharing more of their money with Verizon. These tactics show just how uncompetitive the market for wireless services has become, as Verizon and AT&T gobble up spectrum, tie more products together and lock customers into bad deals.”