I take it you didn't read the PDF? Levinson also gave a time estimate of "between 20 to 40 hours" (p114), which works out to $40 to $80 per hour. Let's call it $50 for the ease of comparison. This is an entirely reasonable hourly fee.
Verizon quoted a $50 court processing fee, which almost certainly takes less than 1 hour to do. It charges a $50 activation fee, which can't reasonably take 1 hour, and $10/day pen tap fee, and I doubt a Verizon employee is spending more than 12 minutes per day per pen tap.
In other words, those documents show that Verizon is almost certainly charging more per unit time than Lavasoft would, and definitely not "several times" lower than Levinson.
No I did not. This PDF and the White House NSA recommendations I have on my todo list for after the 25th of the month. Unfortunately, right now I cannot find the time to read anything this long.
That being said, thanks for the clarification and specific relevant facts from the PDF.
Verizon quoted a $50 court processing fee, which almost certainly takes less than 1 hour to do. It charges a $50 activation fee, which can't reasonably take 1 hour, and $10/day pen tap fee, and I doubt a Verizon employee is spending more than 12 minutes per day per pen tap.
In other words, those documents show that Verizon is almost certainly charging more per unit time than Lavasoft would, and definitely not "several times" lower than Levinson.