{"id":743609,"date":"2013-03-26T16:32:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T20:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=397873"},"modified":"2013-03-26T16:32:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T20:32:39","slug":"t-mobiles-uncarrier-initiative-is-gimmicky-but-still-an-improvement-from-the-status-quo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/743609","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile\u2019s \u2018UNcarrier\u2019 initiative is gimmicky but still an improvement from the status quo"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/26\/t-mobiles-uncarrier-initiative-analysis-397873\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/bgr-img_0015.jpg?w=650&#038;h=580&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C580\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"T-Mobile UNcarrier Initiative\" title=\"T-Mobile\" \/><\/a><\/center>Just as you should always be especially wary of politicians who run for office by claiming that they aren't politicians, so too should you be wary of profit-seeking companies who claim that they're not only after your wallet. I mention this particular public relations technique because it happens to be <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/25\/t-mobile-uncarrier-contract-free-pricing-396134\/\">the same strategy that T-Mobile is employing with its \"UNcarrier\" initiative<\/a>,\u00a0a clever attempt to rebrand the company as a consumer-friendly alternative to the twin evil empires of Verizon (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=vz\">VZ<\/a>) and AT&amp;T (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=t\">T<\/a>).<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/26\/t-mobiles-uncarrier-initiative-analysis-397873\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/aJ52WaP0Ar8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as you should always be especially wary of politicians who run for office by claiming that they aren&#8217;t politicians, so too should you be wary of profit-seeking companies who claim that they&#8217;re not only after your wallet. I mention this particular public relations technique because it happens to be the same strategy that T-Mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-37rH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743609","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\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}