{"id":990134,"date":"2026-02-06T08:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990134"},"modified":"2026-02-06T08:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:04:48","slug":"verizon-wireless-sues-t-mobile-alleges-false-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/06\/verizon-wireless-sues-t-mobile-alleges-false-advertising\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Wireless sues T-Mobile, alleges false advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Verizon Wireless sued T-Mobile \u200don Wednesday, accusing its largest rival of false advertising and causing \u2060irreparable harm by promising consumers more than $1,000 of annual savings if they switch cellphone carriers. <\/p>\n<p>According to a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court, \u200cT-Mobile exaggerated \u200cthe alleged savings, sometimes by more than 100%, by comparing its promotional \u200crates with Verizon&#8217;s standard rates, and inflating the value of streaming, satellite connectivity and other benefits that &#8220;the other guys leave out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: Verizon Wireless sued T-Mobile \u200don Wednesday, accusing its largest rival of false advertising and causing \u2060irreparable harm by promising consumers more than $1,000 of annual savings if they switch cellphone carriers. According to a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court, \u200cT-Mobile exaggerated \u200cthe alleged savings, sometimes by more than 100%, by comparing its promotional \u200crates with Verizon&#8217;s standard rates, and inflating the value of streaming, satellite connectivity and other benefits that &#8220;the other guys leave out.&#8221;<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990134","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=990134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}