{"id":702462,"date":"2010-03-26T15:44:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T19:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003793"},"modified":"2010-03-26T16:11:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T20:11:40","slug":"close-reading-of-press-release-shows-why-everyone-hates-att-wireless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/702462","title":{"rendered":"Close Reading Of Press Release Shows Why Everyone Hates AT&T Wireless"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 3G Microcell, the mini cell tower that AT&T has been threatening their customer base with<\/a> since last fall are coming soon. AT&T Wireless customers remain underwhelmed. Why? Using technology similar to Consumerist’s own Megglefish, Tested’s Will Smith translated the press release from PR-speak to English for us, and teased out the precise reasons why<\/a> this is a terrible, terrible idea. It’s all there. You just have to find it.<\/p>\n

Here’s a sample:<\/p>\n

$150!!!! Wow, I have to pay $150 because AT&T’s shitty network only works in my bathroom? Should a customer who has signed a 2 year contract worth about $100\/month have to pay to extend AT&T’s network to cover someplace that they spend 12+ hours a day? That’s just insane.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stick with MagicJack’s femtocell<\/a> (if it ever comes out) and wi-fi if you have a smartphone, kids.<\/p>\n

This Is Why People Hate the Phone Company, AT&T<\/a> [Tested] (Thanks, Aron!)<\/em><\/p>\n

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The 3G Microcell, the mini cell tower that AT&T has been threatening their customer base with since last fall are coming soon. AT&T Wireless customers remain underwhelmed. Why? Using technology similar to Consumerist’s own Megglefish, Tested’s Will Smith translated the press release from PR-speak to English for us, and teased out the precise reasons why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2WK2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}