T-Mobile's Legere renews call for Verizon, AT&T and Sprint to drop data overage charges

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T-Mobile CEO John Legere is keeping up the pressure on Verizon, AT&T and Sprint to drop overage charges on their domestic plans, as T-Mobile did in 2014. Legere said in a new video that if a petition he started on the issue, which has already attracted around 200,000 signatures, gathers 50,000 more signatures, he will "send them a message that they won't miss." "It could be anything from a sky-written nastygram above AT&T's headquarters to a giant greeting card delivered to the front door of Verizon," he said in a video posted on YouTube. "We'll give you options and you can vote on Twitter." "Let's see if we can at least get the duopoly to wake up and take some action to eliminate this ridiculous practice," Legere said.

Legere said in the video that carriers collected more than $1 billion in overage fees from their customers in 2014. "The carriers' dirty little secret about overages is that they slam you for using your device exactly like you're supposed to," he said. "These penalties often hit people who can least afford them. I mean, if you are going past your data limit, it's probably because you don't have a big data limit to begin with and you're operating on a conservative budget."


T-Mobile's Legere renews call for Verizon, AT&T and Sprint to drop data overage charges