{"id":652203,"date":"2013-04-12T17:25:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T21:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=433905"},"modified":"2013-04-12T17:25:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T21:25:42","slug":"verizon-may-follow-t-mobiles-lead-with-creative-smartphone-payment-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652203","title":{"rendered":"Verizon may follow T-Mobile\u2019s lead with creative smartphone payment plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/12\/verizon-smartphone-subsidies-rumor-433905\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"527\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/verizonwireless.jpg?w=650&amp;h=527&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Verizon Smartphone Subsidies\" title=\"Verizon\" \/><\/a><\/center>T-Mobile made headlines earlier this year for <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/25\/t-mobile-uncarrier-contract-free-pricing-396134\/\">its decision to end carrier subsidies for mobile devices<\/a>\u00a0while completely scrapping wireless contracts. But rather than requiring subscribers to spend $600 all at once for a smartphone, T-Mobile allowed qualifying customers to take part in a convenient payment plan. The carrier offers popular handsets such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/iphone-5\">iPhone 5<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/htc-one\">HTC One<\/a> for $99 down and payments of $20 per month for 24 months. According to an internal document obtained\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/2013\/04\/12\/verizon-will-introduce-a-device-payment-plan-similar-to-t-mobiles-in-the-near-future\/\">by <em>Droid-Life<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/verizon\">Verizon<\/a>\u00a0may be looking to follow in T-Mobile&#8217;s footsteps. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/12\/verizon-smartphone-subsidies-rumor-433905\/?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\/B0LaAHW4zw4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T-Mobile made headlines earlier this year for its decision to end carrier subsidies for mobile devices\u00a0while completely scrapping wireless contracts. But rather than requiring subscribers to spend $600 all at once for a smartphone, T-Mobile allowed qualifying customers to take part in a convenient payment plan. The carrier offers popular handsets such as the iPhone [&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-652203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652203","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=652203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}