{"id":3312,"date":"2008-08-16T18:40:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T18:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3312"},"modified":"2008-08-16T18:40:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T18:40:20","slug":"california_decl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3312","title":{"rendered":"California Declares Free Market Broken, Recommends Price Controls For Phone Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/5037810\/california-declares-free-market-broken-recommends-price-controls-for-phone-services\">The Consumerist<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Verizon, AT&#038;T, and their regulated cohorts love to blab how the &#8220;free market&#8221; and &#8220;competition&#8221; will keep prices low for consumers. According to California, it&#8217;s a big fat expensive lie. The cost of basic phone service has soared since the Public Utilities Commission lifted price controls in 2006, leading the agency to conclude:<br \/>\n&#8220;There is no indication of any change in the near future regarding the current state of competition. Market forces have not yet met the challenge of controlling price increases.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/5037810\/california-declares-free-market-broken-recommends-price-controls-for-phone-services\">The Consumerist<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Verizon, AT&#038;T, and their regulated cohorts love to blab how the &#8220;free market&#8221; and &#8220;competition&#8221; will keep prices low for consumers. According to California, it&#8217;s a big fat expensive lie. The cost of basic phone service has soared since the Public Utilities Commission lifted price controls in 2006, leading the agency to conclude:<br \/>\n&#8220;There is no indication of any change in the near future regarding the current state of competition. Market forces have not yet met the challenge of controlling price increases.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}