{"id":26041,"date":"2009-02-21T11:27:07","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T11:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/02\/21\/more-verizon-wireless-math\/"},"modified":"2009-02-21T11:27:07","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T11:27:07","slug":"more-verizon-wireless-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/21\/more-verizon-wireless-math\/","title":{"rendered":"More Verizon Wireless Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; more like Verizon Without a Net Math &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WdKwRdWocco&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I would like to have seen a calculation of how far off these were in dollars per week.  Canadian dollars, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the rates quoted are almost always an order of magnitude or two lower than the actual rates would strongly suggest that as a class, Verizon Wireless customers are being robbed <em>intentionally<\/em> by the corporation.  It would seem that these service personnel are being trained to lie.  Otherwise, there would be a more even distribution of incorrect statements.  Am I wrong?<\/p>\n<p>But wait, there&#8217;s more:<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nVerizon, Don&#8217;t Waste Your Time With Cents!  Spend Your Time With Your Children Instead!!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XPXILua4Ibk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; more like Verizon Without a Net Math &#8230; I would like to have seen a calculation of how far off these were in dollars per week. Canadian dollars, I suppose. The fact that the rates quoted are almost always an order of magnitude or two lower than the actual rates would strongly suggest that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/21\/more-verizon-wireless-math\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Verizon Wireless Math<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6M1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}