{"id":21974,"date":"2018-06-28T16:14:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T20:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21974"},"modified":"2018-06-28T16:14:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T20:14:56","slug":"att-more-than-doubles-administrative-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/28\/att-more-than-doubles-administrative-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T More Than Doubles Administrative Fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2018\/06\/27\/att-doubles-administrative-fees\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2018\/06\/27\/att-doubles-administrative-fees\/\">\r\n<p>The fee hike was first noticed by BTIG Research analyst Walter Piecyk (via <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/06\/27\/att-just-made-800-million-by-raising-everyones-fees-by-1point23.html\">CNBC<\/a><\/em>), who pointed out that AT&amp;T has increased its monthly fees by approximately $1.23 in 2018 with two price hikes in April and June. Customers are now paying $1.99 in administrative fees, up from 76 cents last year.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been using an old iPhone to experiment with switching to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boom.us\">Boom Mobile<\/a>, as it now supports Visual Voicemail. The red (Verizon) network seems to have better coverage than AT&amp;T in most places that I care about. The rates and customer service seem to be better. The main downsides seem to be that there&rsquo;s no support for Wi-Fi calling or international roaming. I ran into a few glitches with the Web site and had to use the chat to get them to make the necessary changes to my account, but that was surprisingly quick.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: The fee hike was first noticed by BTIG Research analyst Walter Piecyk (via CNBC), who pointed out that AT&amp;T has increased its monthly fees by approximately $1.23 in 2018 with two price hikes in April and June. Customers are now paying $1.99 in administrative fees, up from 76 cents last year. I&rsquo;ve been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-06-28T20:14:58Z","apple_news_api_id":"9ec60c4d-779e-429c-84df-671e4d073c80","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-06-28T20:14:59Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AnsYMTXeeQpyE32ceTQc8gA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1394,1694,132,85,86],"class_list":["post-21974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-att","tag-boom-mobile","tag-carrier","tag-iphone","tag-verizon"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21975,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21974\/revisions\/21975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}