{"id":25354,"date":"2018-12-13T05:23:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T05:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25354"},"modified":"2018-12-13T05:23:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T05:23:30","slug":"california-proposes-a-plan-to-tax-text-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25354","title":{"rendered":"California proposes a plan to tax text messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">San Francisco (CNN Business)<\/cite>California regulators want to tax text messages to increase funds for programs that bring connectivity to underserved residents.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">A new surcharge proposed by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) wouldn&#8217;t be a per-text tax, but a monthly fee based on a cellular bill that includes any fees for text-message services. Most carriers offer a flat fee option for texting, and already charge a similar fee for other services included in the bill \u2014 such as phone calls. The exact structure of the charge would vary from carrier to carrier. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The commission will vote on the measure January 10, 2019, and is facing strong opposition from industry trade groups like the CTIA, which represents AT&#038;T Mobility, Sprint, and T-Mobile. (AT&#038;T is the parent company of CNN.)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco (CNN Business)California regulators want to tax text messages to increase funds for programs that bring connectivity to underserved residents.A new surcharge proposed by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) wouldn&#8217;t be a per-text tax, but a monthly fee based on a cellular bill that includes any fees for text-message services. Most carriers offer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}