Google gives $150 apology to Chromebook owners deprived of Verizon data

  • 24 June 2014
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Google says it's not at fault, but it will mop up Verizon's mess.

by Jon Brodkin - June 24 2014
 
Google plans to give $150 credits to customers who purchased LTE-equipped Chromebook Pixels and were deprived of the two years of free Verizon Wireless data they were promised, Computerworld reported today.
Pixel owners who bought the $1,450 machines shortly after launch in April 2013 were promised 100MB a month of Verizon data for free for two years, but Verizon cut them off after just one year.
 
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A nice gesture, but will $150 buy another full year of their data plan?
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I suppose it all depends on how long it will take for them to work on a solution, they may just hope that if they wait long enough things will calm down.

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