Criticism
Some analysts see Verizon's lowest DSL prices merely as introductory "bait and switch" loss leader campaigns. For example, SBC and Verizon both implement these plans under a 24-month contract that, when expired, jumps to a higher monthly rate (although Verizon does offer a lifetime option that has a continuous fixed rate). Similarly, Verizon aggressively markets to households who have signed up for the promotional-rate DSL to upgrade them to new FiOS service which, once switched to, eliminates DSL as an option to the household, from any provider, unless the copper wires are re-laid to the premises. In 2012 Verizon reported a decline in the number of DSL customers.
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“Good criticism is very rare and always precious.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art—and, by analogy, our own experience—more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)