{"id":650141,"date":"2013-04-02T15:03:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T19:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=410477"},"modified":"2013-04-02T15:03:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T19:03:47","slug":"att-vodafone-hookup-may-revolutionize-roaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/650141","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T-Vodafone hookup may revolutionize roaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/02\/att-vodafone-acquisition-analysis-410477\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"609\" height=\"343\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/att-sign-221.jpg?w=609&amp;h=343&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"AT&amp;T Vodafone Acquisition Analysis\" title=\"AT&amp;T\" \/><\/a><\/center>If <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/02\/verizon-att-vodafone-buyout-rumor-410465\/\">the AT&amp;T-Verizon takeover of Vodafone actually goes through<\/a>, it might represent an earthquake in mobile roaming. <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/att\">AT&amp;T&#8217;s<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=T\">T<\/a>) acquisition of Vodafone&#8217;s portfolio of carriers would mean that it would be able to offer American customers new roaming prices not only to major European\u00a0tourist and business travel\u00a0targets like the U.K., Germany and Italy, but also popular international destinations like Australia, Turkey, South Africa and Egypt. The old Vodafone-<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/verizon\">Verizon<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=VZ\">VZ<\/a>) alliance always had a major stumbling block\u00a0that prevented\u00a0effective roaming: The lack of a wide range of mobile phones that would have supported\u00a0the different W-CDMA and CDMA2000\u00a0technologies the two carriers employed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/02\/att-vodafone-acquisition-analysis-410477\/?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\/ekOhvuEJDa8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the AT&amp;T-Verizon takeover of Vodafone actually goes through, it might represent an earthquake in mobile roaming. AT&amp;T&#8217;s (T) acquisition of Vodafone&#8217;s portfolio of carriers would mean that it would be able to offer American customers new roaming prices not only to major European\u00a0tourist and business travel\u00a0targets like the U.K., Germany and Italy, but also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650141","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\/7566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}