{"id":1169,"date":"2005-03-20T00:09:34","date_gmt":"2005-03-20T00:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2005-03-20T00:09:34","modified_gmt":"2005-03-20T00:09:34","slug":"paying_for_phon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1169","title":{"rendered":"Paying for Phone Service You Never Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/03\/19\/technology\/19phone.html?ex=1268888400&#038;en=b8329ca7e98c5ee3&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">Matt Richtel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;I have to pay for a service I&#8217;m never using,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nHe has no choice. His telephone company, SBC Communications, will not sell him high-speed Internet access unless he buys the phone service, too. That puts him in the same bind as many people around the country who want high-speed, or broadband, Internet access but no longer need a conventional telephone. Right now, their phone companies tend to have a &#8220;take it or leave it&#8221; attitude.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Local telco provider TDS Metro has the same policy: you must purchase legacy phone service with dsl internet access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Richtel: &#8220;I have to pay for a service I&#8217;m never using,&#8221; he said. He has no choice. His telephone company, SBC Communications, will not sell him high-speed Internet access unless he buys the phone service, too. That puts him in the same bind as many people around the country who want high-speed, or broadband, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}