{"id":652477,"date":"2013-04-15T15:50:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=438856"},"modified":"2013-04-15T15:50:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:50:53","slug":"verizon-confirms-12-month-smartphone-payment-plans-beginning-april-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652477","title":{"rendered":"Verizon confirms 12-month smartphone payment plans beginning April 21st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/15\/verizon-smartphone-payment-plans-438856\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"377\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/verizon-sign-128.jpeg?w=650&amp;h=377&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Verizon confirms upcoming 12-month smartphone payment plans\" title=\"Verizon\" \/><\/a><\/center>Following <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/verizon\">Verizon<\/a> CEO Lowell McAdam&#8217;s comment that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/12\/verizon-smartphone-subsidies-rumor-433905\/\">his company would happily follow in T-Mobile&#8217;s footsteps and offer contract-free smartphones with payments spread out over time<\/a>, the carrier announced that it is taking the first steps toward that goal \u2014 sort of. In an update to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/12\/verizon-upgrade-policy-24-months-433452\/\">Verizon&#8217;s original announcement that it will abandon early upgrades<\/a>, the company has confirmed that beginning April 21st, it will make select smartphones and tablets available on a 12-month payment plan that does not require a new service contract. This is great for customers who plan to upgrade to the latest and greatest each year, but Verizon is the real winner here: The carrier&#8217;s service pricing will remain unchanged, which means users who opt for the 12-month payment plan will also still be forking over the device subsidies that are built into the cost of Verizon&#8217;s smartphone plans.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/pOlrHC28az4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam&#8217;s comment that his company would happily follow in T-Mobile&#8217;s footsteps and offer contract-free smartphones with payments spread out over time, the carrier announced that it is taking the first steps toward that goal \u2014 sort of. In an update to Verizon&#8217;s original announcement that it will abandon early upgrades, the [&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-652477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652477","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=652477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}