{"id":714497,"date":"2010-04-12T14:00:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004391"},"modified":"2010-04-11T23:35:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T03:35:13","slug":"verizon-claims-to-cover-more-countries-than-actually-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/714497","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Claims To Cover More Countries Than Actually Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/Verizon-220-thumb-504x380-39180.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Verizon likes to boast that its coverage is ubiquitous, but it&#8217;s gone way overboard when it makes claims that it covers more than 220 countries, as it did in this ad the company sent to Justin, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This one has been sitting around my office for quite a while &#8211; it is a scan of a Verizon advertisement that claims they have service in 220 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Thing is, the UN only recognizes 192, and the US State department recognizes 194.<\/p>\n<p>Where are those other 26 countries?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe Can You Hear Me Now Guy has tired of traveling the globe and has ventured to alien planets, having found <a href=\"http:\/\/geography.about.com\/cs\/countries\/a\/numbercountries.htm\">this one is out of countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verizon likes to boast that its coverage is ubiquitous, but it&#8217;s gone way overboard when it makes claims that it covers more than 220 countries, as it did in this ad the company sent to Justin, who writes: This one has been sitting around my office for quite a while &#8211; it is a scan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2903,"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-714497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ZS9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714497","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\/2903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}