{"id":10421,"date":"2005-04-26T18:28:50","date_gmt":"2005-04-26T18:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samhilliard.com\/wordpress?p=10421"},"modified":"2005-09-06T00:50:30","modified_gmt":"2005-09-06T04:50:30","slug":"shame-on-you-cingular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/26\/shame-on-you-cingular\/","title":{"rendered":"Shame on you Cingular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I drafted a nifty blog about the Land of the Lost movie but then Cingular Wireless provided with better material.   Telco politics is a plague \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd and I&#8217;ve no interest in  a Verizon\/MCI\/ATT\/whatever long distance vs. Cingular.   There&#8217;s a wireless plan for everyone, says I.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I had the perfect plan.  In fact, I do have the perfect plan, one that suits my business needs.  The problem: I also had a second plan.  A nifty two for one deal that no one mentioned even after the first bill.  While enrolled in the unlimited data plan read UNLIMITED  Cingular tacked a pay-per-use data charge onto my account.  <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just say the bill reached hundreds of dollars before I caught wind.  Cingular&#8217;s  web site is utterly useless and provided no meaningful breakdown about the charges, merely a total.  And that&#8217;s another rant for another time.  <\/p>\n<p>Why in the name of all that&#8217;s holy a pay per use data charge can exist side by side with an unlimited data plan is beyond me.  Customer care indicated that when they create a plan the system forbids such a configuration.  Might be neat if the stores also had that same system, no?<\/p>\n<p>Allegedly this glitch was adjusted and my account was credited back the difference.  Let us hope.  OK, rant over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drafted a nifty blog about the Land of the Lost movie but then Cingular Wireless provided with better material. Telco politics is a plague \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd and I&#8217;ve no interest in a Verizon\/MCI\/ATT\/whatever long distance vs. Cingular. There&#8217;s a wireless plan for everyone, says I. I thought I had the perfect plan. In fact, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}