{"id":6516,"date":"2008-02-19T14:58:13","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T14:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/verizon-wireless-and-att-lowering-rates.html"},"modified":"2008-02-19T14:58:13","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T14:58:13","slug":"verizon-wireless-and-att-lowering-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/verizon-wireless-and-att-lowering-rates.html","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Wireless and AT&#038;T Lowering Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been intentionally staying away from the news regarding Verizon Wireless introducing new unlimited voice plans but now that AT&amp;T has come out and matched Verizon&#8217;s plans, it seems I have to at least mention it and point to GigaOM as they are covering the <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2008\/02\/19\/now-att-is-offering-an-unlimited-plan-for-99\/\">news <\/a>and can give you the details.<\/p>\n<p>I am a bit surprised by this move as Verizon Wireless has been doing well charging more than its rivals. These new rates mean that Verizon Wireless is either seeing a slowing economy and have decided this is a way to increase share or they have decided it is time to do away with their weaker competitors T-Mobile and Sprint.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders if this is an opening salvo in a price war where only the customers will be the winners. It certainly seems like this is a likely scenario and the wireless market could soon end up (from a profit perspective) being a lot like the domestic airline market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been intentionally staying away from the news regarding Verizon Wireless introducing new unlimited voice plans but now that AT&amp;T has come out and matched Verizon&#8217;s plans, it seems I have to at least mention it and point to GigaOM as they are covering the news and can give you the details. I am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,168,171,202,172,160,163,199,188,189,118,174,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516"}],"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=6516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}