{"id":8627,"date":"2005-10-19T14:17:27","date_gmt":"2005-10-19T14:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8627"},"modified":"2005-10-19T14:17:27","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T14:17:27","slug":"prepaid-wireless-buh-bye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8627","title":{"rendered":"Prepaid Wireless? Buh-bye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clueless court and patent office goons strike again. According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20051018\/2020224_F.shtml\" target=\"new\">piece<\/a> on TechDirt: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Last month a judge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20050901\/193210_F.shtml\" target=\"new\">upheld a patent ruling<\/a> against BCGI for helping mobile operators offer prepaid wireless solutions. Yes, that&#8217;s right. Having someone pay you before you give them mobile phone service <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/news\/wireless\/article\/5468\" target=\"new\">is patented<\/a>. Now, the judge has increased the fine and <a href=\"http:\/\/go.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&#038;storyID=9964298&#038;src=rss\/technologyNews\" target=\"new\">issued an injunction<\/a> that means many carriers offering BCGI&#8217;s prepaid wireless offerings will have to stop. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clueless court and patent office goons strike again. According to a piece on TechDirt: Last month a judge upheld a patent ruling against BCGI for helping mobile operators offer prepaid wireless solutions. Yes, that&#8217;s right. Having someone pay you before you give them mobile phone service is patented. Now, the judge has increased the fine &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8627\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prepaid Wireless? Buh-bye&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}