{"id":654520,"date":"2013-04-25T15:05:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T19:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=465792"},"modified":"2013-04-25T15:05:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T19:05:45","slug":"washington-attorney-general-slams-t-mobile-over-deceptive-no-contract-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/654520","title":{"rendered":"Washington Attorney General slams T-Mobile over deceptive \u2018no-contract\u2019 advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/25\/t-mobile-no-contract-advertising-court-order-465792\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/t-mobile-sign.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"T-Mobile No-contract Advertising\" title=\"T-Mobile No-contract Advertising\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson on Thursday ordered <em>UNcarrier<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/t-mobile\">T-Mobile<\/a> to correct &#8220;deceptive advertising that promised consumers no annual contracts while carrying hidden charges for early termination of phone plans.&#8221; T-Mobile, which recently <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/09\/t-mobile-uncarrier-initiative-store-traffic-425807\/\">did away with standard cell phone service contracts and typical smartphone subsidies<\/a>, is accused of misleading consumers by advertising no-contract wireless plans despite requiring that customers sign an agreement that makes them responsible for the full cost of their handsets should they cancel service prematurely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/25\/t-mobile-no-contract-advertising-court-order-465792\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/iFuoF2onc_w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson on Thursday ordered UNcarrier T-Mobile to correct &#8220;deceptive advertising that promised consumers no annual contracts while carrying hidden charges for early termination of phone plans.&#8221; T-Mobile, which recently did away with standard cell phone service contracts and typical smartphone subsidies, is accused of misleading consumers by advertising no-contract wireless [&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-654520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654520","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=654520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}