{"id":736,"date":"2004-11-17T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2004-11-17T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=736"},"modified":"2004-11-17T00:00:29","modified_gmt":"2004-11-17T00:00:29","slug":"sbc_moves_sligh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"SBC Moves (slightly) closer to reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Customer choice, in small steps, gets a win with <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/SBC+joins+the+VoIP+party\/2100-7352_3-5455167.html?part=rss&#038;tag=5455167&#038;subj=news.7352.5\">SBC&#8217;s announcement<\/a> that they will begin selling VOIP services to DSL only clients in 2005.   Up to this point, many telco&#8217;s have required a conventional POTS (Plain Old Telephone System or land line for local calls) be part of a dsl agreement.  Some consumers get around this by paying more for DSL only service (like me; in this case, I can upload files at the same speed I download them) and using a VOIP provider such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vonage.com\">vonage<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.packet8.net\">packet8.net<\/a> (which I use and has provided generally good service).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customer choice, in small steps, gets a win with SBC&#8217;s announcement that they will begin selling VOIP services to DSL only clients in 2005. Up to this point, many telco&#8217;s have required a conventional POTS (Plain Old Telephone System or land line for local calls) be part of a dsl agreement. Some consumers get around [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736"}],"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=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}