{"id":645352,"date":"2013-03-05T19:57:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T00:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=360429"},"modified":"2013-03-05T19:57:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T00:57:57","slug":"sprint-encourages-customers-to-unlock-old-phones-and-use-them-on-prepaid-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/645352","title":{"rendered":"Sprint encourages customers to unlock old phones and use them on prepaid networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/05\/sprint-unlocked-smartphones-prepaid-360429\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"430\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/sprint-sign110922150123.jpeg?w=650&amp;h=430&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sprint Unlocked Smartphones\" title=\"Sprint\" \/><\/a><\/center>A day after <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/04\/smartphone-unlocking-white-house-359495\/\">the White House came out in support<\/a> of unlocking cell phones, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/sprint\">Sprint<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=s\">S<\/a>) announced a new program that encourages customers to use their old devices on prepaid carriers that utilize its network. The &#8220;Bring Your Own Sprint Device&#8221; program looks to reduce the number of inactive phones in the U.S. and keep them out of landfills. At the same time, it intends to help Sprint&#8217;s MVNO partners\u00a0attract customers by offsetting the burden of phone subsidies through the &#8220;reactivation of used and inactive Sprint-branded devices&#8221; on qualified price plans. Sprint&#8217;s press release follows below. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/05\/sprint-unlocked-smartphones-prepaid-360429\/?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\/RFhYduuniTg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after the White House came out in support of unlocking cell phones, Sprint (S) announced a new program that encourages customers to use their old devices on prepaid carriers that utilize its network. The &#8220;Bring Your Own Sprint Device&#8221; program looks to reduce the number of inactive phones in the U.S. and keep [&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-645352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645352","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=645352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}