{"id":10583,"date":"2011-07-28T09:21:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T13:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=10583"},"modified":"2011-07-28T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T13:21:08","slug":"vendors-complain-about-btcs-pro-consumer-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/07\/vendors-complain-about-btcs-pro-consumer-initiative","title":{"rendered":"Vendors Complain About BTC&#8217;s Pro-Consumer Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bahamas Telecommunication Company executives say they are not trying to put phone card vendors out of business but rather make topping up prepaid cell phones much easier.<\/p>\n<p>The executives were responding to allegations by phone card vendors and political parties that the increase in the wholesale price of phone cards will ultimately eliminate the need for street vendors.<\/p>\n<p>BTC executive Tablot Collie told The Tribune that BTC has increased the rates to keep with industry standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahamas Telecommunication Company has had to respond to allegations that they are trying to eliminate street vendors, but BTC says all they are trying to do is benefit the consumer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,146,43],"class_list":["post-10583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-btc","tag-cable-wireless","tag-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}