{"id":181545,"date":"2010-01-14T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/b14de8abb8db61a4c63c6cd13371fe37"},"modified":"2010-01-14T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T23:45:00","slug":"article-us-wireless-carriers-receive-5-million-in-aid-for-haiti-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/181545","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: US wireless carriers receive $5 million in aid for Haiti victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/1\/91440-0931baba-011e-11df-a4cb-00144feabdc0.jpg\" alt=\"Haiti destruction\" width=\"450\" height=\"278\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update: Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile are waiving text message fees for those that text message 90999 from their device.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Incredible news today by way of donating: As of 4 PM EST, US wireless carriers had received <strong>$5 million<\/strong> in donations from customers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To break the data down, that&#8217;s $5 million in 48 hours, based on $10 increments.&nbsp; In comparison, contributions for all of last year (2009) totaled just less than $4 million.&nbsp; All proceeds go to the Red Cross for earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.<\/p>\n<p>To donate $10 to the Red Cross, text &#8220;HAITI&#8221; to 90999 from your mobile device.&nbsp; The numbers will be revised as I receive them.&nbsp; $5 million and counting &#8211; let&#8217;s keep up the good work!<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JNels\/status\/7764043346\" >Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MT35szxXHv8hdKa34tJCvfewbb0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MT35szxXHv8hdKa34tJCvfewbb0\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MT35szxXHv8hdKa34tJCvfewbb0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MT35szxXHv8hdKa34tJCvfewbb0\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/Bi_E8Pipw1E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile are waiving text message fees for those that text message 90999 from their device. Incredible news today by way of donating: As of 4 PM EST, US wireless carriers had received $5 million in donations from customers.&nbsp; To break the data down, that&#8217;s $5 million in 48 hours, based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}