As far as I know Verizon is the only carrier that blocks USB/Bluetooth file transfers on their phones. (If you look on the Motorola web site to download Motorola Phone Tools <http://www.store.motorola.com/mot/en/US/adirect/motorola?cmd=catProductDetail&productID=98741H&showAddButton=true> it has a note at the bottom- "Note: If you are a Verizon customer, all multimedia and Internet connection features in this software will be disabled due to carrier request. Please contact your service provider for further information.")

This practice forces their customers to either pay outrageous rates for data usage or subscribe to plans with data included, not to mention $2 USD per wallpaper, screensaver, ringtone, etc... Bearing this in mind, as far as I am concerned they can't make ANY claims of unlimited service or customer freedom. As far as the contract extension deal- like a little kid, one kid got something, so the other kid follows suit and makes a big deal of it.

Most of the people at Ofcom are industry insiders who, at some point in their lives will probably want to return to the industry sector they came from.

Hardly going to rock the boat and never be able to get another job, are they?

The prerequisite for a job at Ofcom should be, not to have previous links to the industry, then we might get some action and decisions that will favour the consumer and make sense.

the problem is the greedy users!

go on, set up a cafe, promising UNLIMITED pizza for only one standard payment per day...

it works fine, because most cannot eat that much... until you get those people coming in, that CAN eat 50 pizzas, and then stay there the whole day, using the facilties, and then invite their mates....

Pretty soon you have to suppy 200 pizzas(for only 4 people!) a day, all at the price you have stated....

How long will it be before you go bust??? or will you try to reduce the quality of pizzas, limit the number of pizzas per day, say your offer only applies to very basic pizzas (so the 'normal' customer does not complain about the quality, or just stays away..)

does this scenario seem familiar???

but I never heard anyone say anything about Verizon doing anything in particular what are they basing this on.

Who isn't greedy? I'll be the first to admit it, I am greedy. If I buy a product, I want full access to it. If I pay $5 for an all-you-can-eat buffet, I want to eat all I can. The point is this: Multi-Billion dollar companies do not just set a service and make promises out of the blue. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, go into market research.

Sure, if you go open a pizza parlor and offer unlimited pizza for a set price each day you are going to go bust. But if you do the research first and crunch the numbers, you will be able to offer the service in a manner that will make you money. So don't think for a second these big companies do anything without knowing what they are getting into and a good idea of the outcome.

Rest assured that they are not there to help you. In the end the only concern of the company is the bottom line. ($$$) Don't get me wrong, no one can offer a service and not make money. But there should be limits. For example:

Go to Best Buy or another store like it. Buy a Micro SD 2GB memory card. It will cost you about $45. Go to newegg.com and you can buy the same thing WITH a USB Card reader for $15. Both companies are making money off it. Where is the greed here?

So in summary, yes Users are certainly greedy. But no more so than the corperation who provide the service. Perhaps some users need to pay more attention to the fine print. Maybe the corperations should make the fine print larger and easier to find. Bottom Line--- Everyone is GREEDY, User and Corperation alike.

Nail on the head mate!

If it is, there must be a pretty narrow definition of "lie". There must be exemptions for anything that is merely shown rather than stated, anything that is merely a logical consequence (however inevitable) of something that is stated, and anything that a sufficiently well-informed person would know *couldn't* be true and must therefore be a joke (however unfunny and even if most people aren't so well-informed). Merely being false or overwhelmingly likely to mislead doesn't seem to cut it.