{"id":824,"date":"2008-09-11T17:11:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T00:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=824"},"modified":"2008-09-11T17:11:28","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T00:11:28","slug":"regular-phone-calls-costing-more-than-long-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/regular-phone-calls-costing-more-than-long-distance\/","title":{"rendered":"Regular Phone Calls Costing More Than Long Distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the current billing I received for my cell phone bill, during the past 30 days I have been extremely busy with calls happening everywhere I go. According to my bill, I used about 1205 minutes which is insane compared to my normal usage.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, I went a little over my plan usage and I noticed something extremely funny.  For every additional minute, the company billed it at 33 cents a minute.  However, when it comes to long distance calls, my plan clearly states that it charges 25 cents a minute.  That just seemed so strange to me.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it is safe to say that billing in this industry is not really based too much on actual cost like a tangible product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the current billing I received for my cell phone bill, during the past 30 days I have been extremely busy with calls happening everywhere I go. According to my bill, I used about 1205 minutes which is insane compared to my normal usage. As a result, I went a little over my plan usage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[1206,1204,1205,1207],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-billing","tag-cell-phone-bill","tag-local-calls","tag-long-distance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/HNCK3323-1300x866.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-di","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}