{"id":650636,"date":"2013-04-04T14:05:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T18:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=414605"},"modified":"2013-04-04T14:05:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T18:05:09","slug":"verizon-ceo-says-he-would-happily-drop-cell-phone-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/650636","title":{"rendered":"Verizon CEO says he would happily drop cell phone contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/04\/verizon-service-contracts-ceo-interview-414605\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"403\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/verizon-lowell-mcadam110922113902.jpg?w=650&amp;h=403&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Verizon Service Contracts\" title=\"Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam\" \/><\/a><\/center>All eyes are on T-Mobile as the carrier embarks on a new journey that will <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/26\/t-mobiles-uncarrier-initiative-analysis-397873\/\">eliminate its standard cell phone service contracts in favor of a more transparent hardware financing model<\/a>. U.S. carriers in particular will be watching this story unfold quite closely, and the chief executive of the nation&#8217;s top carrier recently said he would happily drop the cell phone contract model if Verizon Wireless subscribers express interest in this new model en masse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/04\/verizon-service-contracts-ceo-interview-414605\/?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\/mBUlMdoRJhM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All eyes are on T-Mobile as the carrier embarks on a new journey that will eliminate its standard cell phone service contracts in favor of a more transparent hardware financing model. U.S. carriers in particular will be watching this story unfold quite closely, and the chief executive of the nation&#8217;s top carrier recently said he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650636","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}