{"id":67133,"date":"2016-07-28T12:25:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T16:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67133"},"modified":"2016-07-28T12:25:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T16:25:07","slug":"defense-mobile-dumps-troops-and-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67133","title":{"rendered":"Defense Mobile dumps troops and vets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=67134\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67134\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Defense-Mobile-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Defense Mobile\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-67134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Defense-Mobile-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Defense-Mobile-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Defense-Mobile-446x333.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Defense-Mobile-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Defense-Mobile.jpg 898w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>AZtoVA sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/story\/military\/benefits\/2016\/07\/27\/mobile-service-provider-drops-troops-and-veterans\/87612760\/?utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Military%20EBB%207-28-16&#038;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Military%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief\">Military Times<\/a> where they report that mobile phone service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensemobile.com\/\">Defense Mobile <\/a>dropped thousands of troops&#8217; and veterans&#8217; service without warning.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The company is in the process of restructuring, said its chief executive officer, Anthony Montoya, who recently took the helm. \u201cThe company wasn\u2019t doing well. I\u2019m trying to get it on the right track,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He declined to specify how many veterans and service members have been affected.<\/p>\n<p>Montoya said the company lost coverage with some of its carriers.<\/p>\n<p>The company has been providing refunds, and those are being processed through PayPal in generally three to five days, he said. \u201cAnd our team has been working with folks to switch to new carriers\u201d to port their phone numbers, he said. \u201cWe\u2019re working with them every day.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, your customers need some warning, dude. Generally, I use companies that support the troops, but I would never use a company who has the troops as the main part of their business plan. They tend to take the troops for granted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AZtoVA sends us a link to the Military Times where they report that mobile phone service &hellip; <a title=\"Defense Mobile dumps troops and vets\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67133\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Defense Mobile dumps troops and vets<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}