{"id":9960,"date":"2013-04-25T17:59:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T22:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9960"},"modified":"2013-04-25T17:59:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T22:59:41","slug":"t-mobile-no-contract-advertising-wa-court-orders-retraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9960","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile No-contract Advertising: WA Court Orders Retraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Under T-Mobile\u2019s new setup, subscribers can purchase handsets by making a relatively small up-front payment and then paying the remaining cost of the phone over the following 24 months. For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/12\/t-mobile-iphone-5-release-date-launch-433222\/\">Apple\u2019s iPhone 5 costs $99 down<\/a> followed by 24 monthly payments of $20. While customers do not need to sign a standard contract\u00a0committing\u00a0them to T-Mobile\u2019s wireless service for two years, they do have to sign an agreement taking responsibility for full equipment costs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/25\/t-mobile-no-contract-advertising-court-order-465792\/\">T-Mobile No-contract Advertising: WA Court Orders Retraction | BGR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Charging $(24&#215;20) + $99 = $579 for an IPhone when you can get a decent tablet with a bigger screen and similar features for under $200 is ridiculous.\u00a0 It amazes me how people will complain when gas goes up a nickel a gallon but don&#8217;t think twice about over paying for cell phones by hundreds of dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under T-Mobile\u2019s new setup, subscribers can purchase handsets by making a relatively small up-front payment and then paying the remaining cost of the phone over the following 24 months. For example, Apple\u2019s iPhone 5 costs $99 down followed by 24 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9960\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1091],"tags":[137,436,940],"class_list":["post-9960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","tag-advertising","tag-smartphones","tag-telecom-operators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}