NEW YORK: T-Mobile countersued Verizon Wireless, accusing its largest rival of engaging in “bait-and-switch” advertising to induce consumers to switch cellphone carriers. The lawsuit followed Verizon Wireless’ own February 4 lawsuit challenging T-Mobile ads promising consumers more than $1,000 of annual savings if they switched carriers. <\/p>\n
In a \u200cFriday night \u2060filing \u2060in Manhattan federal court, T-Mobile said Verizon’s promise of a “better deal” if consumers brought in their T-Mobile or AT&T Mobility bills and changed carriers is a ruse because Verizon cannot offer comparable service plans at lower prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW YORK: T-Mobile countersued Verizon Wireless, accusing its largest rival of engaging in “bait-and-switch” advertising to induce consumers to switch cellphone carriers. The lawsuit followed Verizon Wireless’ own February 4 lawsuit challenging T-Mobile ads promising consumers more than $1,000 of annual savings if they switched carriers. In a \u200cFriday night \u2060filing \u2060in Manhattan federal court, T-Mobile said Verizon’s promise of a “better deal” if consumers brought in their T-Mobile or AT&T Mobility bills and changed carriers is a ruse because Verizon cannot offer comparable service plans at lower prices.<\/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-996118","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\/996118","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=996118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}