{"id":232680,"date":"2010-01-26T12:53:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T17:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"12483 at http:\/\/www.precentral.net"},"modified":"2010-01-26T12:53:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T17:53:04","slug":"editorial-voice-rate-cuts-data-rate-hikes-and-the-case-for-metered-billing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/232680","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: Voice rate cuts, data rate hikes, and the case for metered billing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"10\" height=\"480\" class=\"lightbox2\" alt=\"Overage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/sites\/precentral.net\/files\/articleimages\/Derek%20Kessler\/2010\/01\/overage.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">Both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/verizon-tweaks-plans-no-longer-most-expensive-still-expensive\">Verizon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theiphoneblog.com\/2010\/01\/15\/att-offers-100-unlimited-voicedata-sms-plan-iphone\/\">AT&amp;T<\/a> have recently dropped the price of their unlimited voice plans from $100 to $70 a month. While we (we being the tech media) generally assumed that the price cuts were an attempt to lure more customers. We tend to forget a few days after their conference calls that the #1 and #2 US cellular networks are having no trouble picking up and retaining new customers, even with their rates considerably higher than #3 Sprint and #4 T-Mobile (T-Mobile is at least still gaining subscribers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/sprints-q3fy09-results-best-years-still-pretty-grim\">unlike Sprint<\/a>). So why the price cuts?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/editorial-voice-rate-cuts-data-rate-hikes-and-case-metered-billing\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=Ddx4TlTtGT4:pmVaChSEphs:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=Ddx4TlTtGT4:pmVaChSEphs:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=Ddx4TlTtGT4:pmVaChSEphs:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?i=Ddx4TlTtGT4:pmVaChSEphs:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=Ddx4TlTtGT4:pmVaChSEphs:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Precentralnet\/~4\/Ddx4TlTtGT4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both Verizon and AT&amp;T have recently dropped the price of their unlimited voice plans from $100 to $70 a month. While we (we being the tech media) generally assumed that the price cuts were an attempt to lure more customers. We tend to forget a few days after their conference calls that the #1 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":666,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232680","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\/666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}