Dear Verizon:
Your are on notice. I am a business owner and a long time customer of yours (multiple accounts since 1981). I have stuck by you through your various mergers and name changes, I have time and again renewed your services through 8 moves.
You have one week to publically address today's news that you have been providing (or plan to provide) the government with my phone records. Unless I hear firm, legally sound public statements coming from your company that Verizon will immediately cease providing the government or their agents with this information, I will be terminating all present and future business with your company.
I will be encouraging all my friends, relatives, neighbors and business associates to do the same.
I have already checked with QWest, and their unlimmited domestic service is available in my area for $20.00 per month (before taxes) which is substantially less than I have been paying you. Qwest has assured me that my accounts can be switched over in as little as 5 days.
So to summerize, I am putting Verizon on alert that you have until next Thursday to prove to me that you will protect and respect my privacy or I will be a Qwest customer by June 1st.
Sincerely,
Brighton