{"id":1034751,"date":"2023-03-23T05:55:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T05:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=277379"},"modified":"2023-03-23T05:55:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T05:55:49","slug":"the-great-telecom-rip-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/23\/the-great-telecom-rip-off\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Telecom Rip-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In September 2020, the State of California won a\u00a0$116 million\u00a0suit against Verizon ($68 million)\u00a0and AT&#38;T\u00a0($48 million). The suit was brought by a \u201cwhistleblower,\u201d OnTheGo Wireless, LLC, and thirty government entities claiming under the California False Claims Act that the telecoms overcharged the state and government customers for wireless services.[1] \u00a0Some 300 state and local entities  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/23\/the-great-telecom-rip-off-2\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/23\/the-great-telecom-rip-off-2\/\">The Great Telecom Rip-Off<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/03\/23\/the-great-telecom-rip-off-2\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September 2020, the State of California won a\u00a0$116 million\u00a0suit against Verizon ($68 million)\u00a0and AT&#038;T\u00a0($48 million). The suit was brought by a \u201cwhistleblower,\u201d OnTheGo Wireless, LLC, and thirty government entities claiming under the California &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034752,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034751\/revisions\/1034752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}