Brooklyn Assemblyman seeks probe of Verizon after issues with Big Red's $10/day Travel Pass

Some Verizon customers who reside in New York, signed up for the carrier's $10 a day Travel Pass service. These consumers now claim that not only aren't didn't they get billed at the pricing they signed up for, they were billed for hundreds of dollars in calls and texts that they never sent. Under Big Red's international travel plan, paying $10 a day gives customers the ability to carry their domestic Verizon talk, text and data allowances into any of 100 countries where the plan is valid.

Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind recently signed up with the plan for a trip he made to Israel. When ...