{"id":478105,"date":"2010-03-26T15:44:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T19:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003793"},"modified":"2010-03-26T16:11:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T20:11:40","slug":"close-reading-of-press-release-shows-why-everyone-hates-att-wireless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/478105","title":{"rendered":"Close Reading Of Press Release Shows Why Everyone Hates AT&amp;T Wireless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/500x_AT_TMicroCell1-thumb-300x148-38644.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>The 3G Microcell, the mini cell tower that AT&#038;T has been <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2009\/09\/live-in-an-att-dead-zone-theres-a-fix-but-itll-cost-you.html\">threatening their customer base with<\/a> since last fall are coming soon. AT&#038;T Wireless customers remain underwhelmed. Why? Using technology similar to Consumerist&#8217;s own Megglefish, Tested&#8217;s Will Smith translated the press release from PR-speak to English for us, and teased out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tested.com\/news\/this-is-why-people-hate-the-phone-company-att\/60\/\">the precise reasons why<\/a> this is a terrible, terrible idea. It&#8217;s all there. You just have to find it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>$150!!!! Wow, I have to pay $150 because AT&#038;T&#8217;s shitty network only works in my bathroom? Should a customer who has signed a 2 year contract worth about $100\/month have to pay to extend AT&#038;T&#8217;s network to cover someplace that they spend 12+ hours a day? That&#8217;s just insane.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stick with <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/01\/make-free-cell-phone-calls-withmagicjack.html\">MagicJack&#8217;s femtocell<\/a> (if it ever comes out) and wi-fi if you have a smartphone, kids.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tested.com\/news\/this-is-why-people-hate-the-phone-company-att\/60\/\">This Is Why People Hate the Phone Company, AT&#038;T<\/a> [Tested] <em>(Thanks, Aron!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>RELATED<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2009\/09\/live-in-an-att-dead-zone-theres-a-fix-but-itll-cost-you.html\">Live In An AT&#038;T Dead Zone? There&#8217;s A Fix, But It&#8217;ll Cost You<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 3G Microcell, the mini cell tower that AT&#038;T has been threatening their customer base with since last fall are coming soon. AT&#038;T Wireless customers remain underwhelmed. Why? Using technology similar to Consumerist&#8217;s own Megglefish, Tested&#8217;s Will Smith translated the press release from PR-speak to English for us, and teased out the precise reasons why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478105","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\/4307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}