{"id":5727,"date":"2021-05-19T09:44:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T13:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=5727"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:13:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:13:10","slug":"verizon-forces-customers-onto-pricier-plans-to-receive-ebb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/verizon-forces-customers-onto-pricier-plans-to-receive-ebb\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Forces Customers Onto Pricier Plans To Receive EBB"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Verizon and some other ISPs are preventing low-income earners from benefiting from the $50 a month Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) unless they switch to a different, more expensive plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the EBB is only temporary, Verizon customers who switch to more expensive plans to enjoy the $50 monthly rebate will have to pay the higher rate even after the data subsidy ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a report by Washington Post tech columnist Geoffrey Fowler, Verizon is restricting plans available for both mobile and home Internet services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of allowing customers to register online, Verizon requires users to call a number to sign up and then &#8220;tells some customers the EBB can&#8217;t be used on &#8216;old&#8217; data plans, so they&#8217;ll have to switch.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2021\/05\/verizon-uses-fcc-pandemic-subsidy-to-upsell-customers-to-pricier-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Arstechnica.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verizon preventing customers from enjoying the $50 a month EBB by asking them to switch to more expensive plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-public-sector"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5727"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5754,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions\/5754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}