{"id":653491,"date":"2013-04-19T17:05:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T21:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=450764"},"modified":"2013-04-19T17:05:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T21:05:48","slug":"petition-asking-verizon-to-ditch-wireless-contracts-nears-100000-signatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/653491","title":{"rendered":"Petition asking Verizon to ditch wireless contracts nears 100,000 signatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/19\/verizon-wireless-contract-petition-450764\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/verizon-petition.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Petition asking Verizon to ditch wireless contracts nears 100,000 signatures\" title=\"Verizon petition\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Verizon customers want to know <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/17\/verizon-wireless-contracts-petition-446109\/\">if their carrier can hear them now<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/contracts\">A Change.org petition<\/a> started by\u00a0Wichita, Kan. resident\u00a0Mike Beauchamp asking <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/verizon\">Verizon<\/a> to follow <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/t-mobile\">T-Mobile&#8217;s<\/a> lead in ditching wireless contracts is approaching 100,000 signatures and stood at 97,500 by late Friday afternoon.\u00a0Beauchamp says that he started the petition because he&#8217;s a long-time Verizon subscriber who doesn\u2019t want to pay early termination fees for changing carriers in the future. The petition\u00a0was prompted by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/04\/verizon-service-contracts-ceo-interview-414605\/\">Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam\u2019s recent remarks<\/a>\u00a0that he\u2019d be happy to dump wireless contracts if customers showed significant interested in contract-free plans.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/h7T7PnPYodc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verizon customers want to know if their carrier can hear them now. A Change.org petition started by\u00a0Wichita, Kan. resident\u00a0Mike Beauchamp asking Verizon to follow T-Mobile&#8217;s lead in ditching wireless contracts is approaching 100,000 signatures and stood at 97,500 by late Friday afternoon.\u00a0Beauchamp says that he started the petition because he&#8217;s a long-time Verizon subscriber who [&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-653491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653491","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=653491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}