Verizon To Add $30 As Wireless Upgrade Fee

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) has announced that it is introducing a $30 fee on customers who wish to upgrade their wireless contract or equipment on the national US carrier. The company will begin to charge the upgrade fee on April 22nd. The move has been expected as wireless carriers move to insert fees on their users in order to cover the costs of wireless devices they subsidize and the costs of upgrading their services to new wireless standards.

Verizon was up until now the only large national carrier in the United...