{"id":1020379,"date":"2026-07-13T08:27:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020379"},"modified":"2026-07-13T08:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:57:42","slug":"the-subscription-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/13\/the-subscription-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"The subscription trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just last month, a perfectly rational football enthusiast committed a grave mistake. He wanted to watch the Fifa World Cup and signed up for Zee5. Like millions before him, he assumed he was buying access to a sporting event that would last a few weeks. Instead, he unknowingly enrolled in a financial relationship that appeared designed to outlive several governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just last month, a perfectly rational football enthusiast committed a grave mistake. He wanted to watch the Fifa World Cup and signed up for Zee5. Like millions before him, he assumed he was buying access to a sporting event that would last a few weeks. Instead, he unknowingly enrolled in a financial relationship that appeared designed to outlive several governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020399,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020379\/revisions\/1020399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}