Verizon Wireless Agrees to Compensate Customers for Lost Email to Settle Verizon Lawsuit   4/18/2006 - 2,046 views,

At issue, you see, was that Verizon customers were not receiving important, wanted email because Verizon had decided that any email which was sent to them from outside the United States was likely to be spam.

So they blocked it all.

Nice.

Now Verizon is in the process of settling the lawsuit, and is going to pay those customers whom did not receive the email that had been sent to them as a result of their overaggressive anti-spam blocking policies. The payout is $3.50 per month for each month that the user had email service with Verizon between the dates of October 1, 2004 and May 31, 2005.

Of course, this isn’t the first time that Verizon has made enemies of their customers. A year ago to the day, we reported that Verizon’s CEO, Ivan Seidenberg, complained about Verizon’s customers being oh so demanding, because they wanted their cellphones to work at..you know.. where they live. “a href=”http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/verizon-ceo-ivan-seidenberg” target=_blank>Why in the world would you think your (cell) phone would work in your house?” he said.

If you believe that you may qualify to participate in this settlement you should check out the Verizon class action settlement website.