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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Famous quotes containing the word criticism:
“Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world—though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst—the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism.... Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)