FCC sides with cable in dispute with Verizon

Regulators vote to bar wireless provider from marketing to customers to talk them out of a decision to switcher their phone service to cable.
(From Reuters)

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[ralfthedog]

Does this mean that the local phone company can not contact me when they are notified I am switching to Verizon?

[unknown unknown]

They can probably still call you, but they can't use "special offers" etc to try and persuade you stay with them.

[El Kabong]

Apparently the FCC is anti-consumer if they deny a vendor the right to offer me a lower cost for a competitive product.

One more demonstration of how legislators use commissions to avoid responsibility to voters.

The next best thing is to boycott cable. Their service sucks anyway, regardless of their price.