{"id":651490,"date":"2013-04-09T16:24:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T20:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=425807"},"modified":"2013-04-09T16:24:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T20:24:13","slug":"t-mobile-exec-claims-uncarrier-initiative-has-led-to-surge-in-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651490","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile exec claims \u2018UNcarrier\u2019 initiative has led to surge in interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/09\/t-mobile-uncarrier-initiative-store-traffic-425807\/\"><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 UNcarrier Initiative\" title=\"T-Mobile CEO John Legere\" \/><\/a><\/center>T-Mobile CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/27\/t-mobile-ceo-hedge-fund-criticism-400144\/\">John Legere&#8217;s attempted populist revolt<\/a> against the major wireless carriers has apparently sparked some consumer interest.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1035_3-57578557-94\/t-mobile-execs-see-early-momentum-higher-store-traffic\/\">In an interview with\u00a0<em>CNET<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/t-mobile\">T-Mobile<\/a>\u00a0executive David Carey claims that &#8220;traffic was up in all of the stores he visited after the carrier made its switch [to ditching wireless contracts] late last month and announced the changes <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/26\/t-mobile-uncarrier-liveblog-live-coverage-392815\/\">during a high-profile event in New York<\/a>.&#8221; T-Mobile in March announced that it was abandoning contracts for its wireless plans and would give customers the option to either buy new smartphones at full price or to buy them for $99 up front followed by a series of $20 payments over the span of two years. Early <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/27\/t-mobile-annual-savings-estimates-400045\/\">estimates have shown that the carrier&#8217;s new plans could be big money savers<\/a> for individual subscribers.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/tUOZGjNFzuM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T-Mobile CEO John Legere&#8217;s attempted populist revolt against the major wireless carriers has apparently sparked some consumer interest.\u00a0In an interview with\u00a0CNET, T-Mobile\u00a0executive David Carey claims that &#8220;traffic was up in all of the stores he visited after the carrier made its switch [to ditching wireless contracts] late last month and announced the changes during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651490","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\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}