{"id":5234,"date":"2007-02-01T14:36:58","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T14:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/verizon-and-iphone.html"},"modified":"2007-02-01T14:36:58","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T14:36:58","slug":"verizon-and-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wireless\/verizon-and-iphone.html","title":{"rendered":"Verizon and iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Will losing the iPhone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/default.aspx?article=37286\"><font color=\"#800080\">deal<\/font><\/a> be remembered as a blunder in the wireless telecom space? I would wager yes. OK so Apple is in the position of strength and demands ridiculous things. Verizon should have dealt with it. Based on specs alone I would consider a switch from Verizon to Cingular to get this device.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">In a year from now we will look back at this lost opportunity and say Verizon really screwed up.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will losing the iPhone deal be remembered as a blunder in the wireless telecom space? I would wager yes. OK so Apple is in the position of strength and demands ridiculous things. Verizon should have dealt with it. Based on specs alone I would consider a switch from Verizon to Cingular to get this device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}