{"id":644902,"date":"2013-03-01T16:30:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T21:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=355487"},"modified":"2013-03-01T16:30:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T21:30:02","slug":"t-mobile-could-announce-the-end-of-cell-phone-contracts-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/644902","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile could announce the end of cell phone contracts next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/01\/t-mobile-smartphone-subsidies-march-24th-355487\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"396\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/t-mobile-sign.jpg?w=650&amp;h=396&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"T-Mobile Smartphone Subsidiaries\" title=\"T-Mobile\" \/><\/a><\/center>T-Mobile executives haven&#8217;t beat around the bush when expressing <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/03\/09\/t-mobile-cmo-says-smartphone-subsidies-need-to-go\/\">their distaste for smartphone subsidiaries<\/a>. In December, the company&#8217;s CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/12\/06\/t-mobile-smartphone-subsidies-end\/\">spoke to investors about alternatives paths<\/a> the carrier could take to compete with Verizon (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=vz\">VZ<\/a>) and AT&amp;T (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=t\">T<\/a>). According to an internal memo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmonews.com\/2013\/03\/will-tmobiles-uncarrier-approach-eliminate-contracts-revamp-marketing-campaign\/\">obtained by <em>TmoNews<\/em><\/a>, the company could announce its &#8220;uncarrier&#8221; plans as soon as March 4th. The initiative would remove two-year contracts, early termination fees and traditional phone subsidies, allowing customers to instead purchase new devices with a monthly installment plan. The memo also revealed that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/t-mobile\">T-Mobile<\/a>\u00a0plans to market its HSPA+ and upcoming LTE network as &#8220;dual 4G&#8221; technology\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/10\/03\/t-mobile-metropcs-merger-officially-approved\/\">in the wake of its merger with MetroPCS<\/a>. T-Mobile&#8217;s rebranding efforts will reportedly kick off on March 24th.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/XhagYc0OR1E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T-Mobile executives haven&#8217;t beat around the bush when expressing their distaste for smartphone subsidiaries. In December, the company&#8217;s CEO spoke to investors about alternatives paths the carrier could take to compete with Verizon (VZ) and AT&amp;T (T). According to an internal memo obtained by TmoNews, the company could announce its &#8220;uncarrier&#8221; plans as soon as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644902","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\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}