{"id":645207,"date":"2013-03-04T17:57:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T22:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=359431"},"modified":"2013-03-04T17:57:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T22:57:22","slug":"verizon-executive-thinks-carriers-can-slash-smartphone-subsidies-without-hurting-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/645207","title":{"rendered":"Verizon executive thinks carriers can slash smartphone subsidies without hurting consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/04\/verizon-smartphone-subsidies-359431\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"405\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/verizon-execs110322122748.jpeg?w=650&amp;h=405&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Verizon Smartphone Subsidies\" title=\"Verizon\" \/><\/a><\/center>We&#8217;ve known for a while that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/08\/verizon-smartphone-subsidies-t-mobile-285693\/\">carriers have been itching for a chance to ditch smartphone subsidies<\/a>, but\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/verizon\">Verizon<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=vz\">VZ<\/a>) CFO Fran Shammo\u00a0now expects that smartphone subsidies will decrease naturally over the next two to three years with no added cost to consumers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiercewireless.com\/story\/verizons-shammo-device-subsidies-will-drop-over-next-2-3-years\/2013-03-04\"><em>FierceWireless<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0Shammo on Monday told the the Deutsche Bank 2013 Media, Internet &amp; Telecom Conference\u00a0that emerging smartphone platforms such as <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows-phone\">Windows Phone<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/blackberry-10\">BlackBerry 10<\/a> will lead to increased competition in the market and bring lower priced phones, which\u00a0will in turn lead to reduced subsidy costs for carriers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/04\/verizon-smartphone-subsidies-359431\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/GypOEJQJ5x8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve known for a while that carriers have been itching for a chance to ditch smartphone subsidies, but\u00a0Verizon (VZ) CFO Fran Shammo\u00a0now expects that smartphone subsidies will decrease naturally over the next two to three years with no added cost to consumers. FierceWireless\u00a0reports\u00a0that\u00a0Shammo on Monday told the the Deutsche Bank 2013 Media, Internet &amp; Telecom [&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-645207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645207","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=645207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}