{"id":4118,"date":"2011-03-14T16:56:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T16:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joethecouponguy.com\/blog1\/?p=4118"},"modified":"2011-03-14T16:56:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T16:56:46","slug":"free-calls-and-texting-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joethecouponguy.com\/blog1\/2011\/03\/14\/free-calls-and-texting-to-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"FREE CALLS AND TEXTING TO JAPAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AT&#038;T<\/strong><br \/>\nAT&#038;T announced it has implemented international calling and texting support efforts for U.S. residential wireless and wireline consumers trying to connect with loved ones in Japan, following last week&#8217;s tragic earthquake and tsunami.  Effective beginning last week, March 11, and continuing through March 31, AT&#038;T wireless postpaid customers will not be charged for:<br \/>\n&#8211; International long distance usage from the United States and Puerto Rico to Japan<br \/>\n&#8211; Text messages to Japan, originated from a U.S. wireless number<\/p>\n<p>In addition, and also effective March 11 through March 31, residential wireline customers can seek credits for up to 60 minutes of direct dial calling to Japan:<\/p>\n<p>Upon receiving their wireline bill, customers may call AT&#038;T to receive adjusted calling for up to 60 minutes. In other words, no charges for up to 60 minutes of call time from the United States to Japan between March 11 and March 31.<\/p>\n<p>For any of the above activity, customers will either see no charges reflected on their monthly statement, or they will see a full credit applied to their statement for activity between March 11 and March 31. <\/p>\n<p>Still available, AT&#038;T wireless customers can text &#8220;redcross&#8221; to 90999 to give a $10 donation to help the Red Cross with disaster support efforts in the area. \u00a0No text message fees apply. <\/p>\n<p>And, TV Japan \u2013 the 24 hour Japanese news channel \u2013 is available for free through March 17 to all U-verse\u00ae TV subscribers, allowing viewers to follow the news and recovery efforts. TV Japan can be found on channel 3680.<\/p>\n<p>Good to see AT&#038;T helping with the devastating tsunami in Japan.  Godspeed Japan!<\/p>\n<p>Joe<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.joethecouponguy.com\">http:\/\/www.joethecouponguy.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&#038;T AT&#038;T announced it has implemented international calling and texting support efforts for U.S. residential wireless and wireline consumers trying to connect with loved ones in Japan, following last week&#8217;s tragic earthquake and tsunami. Effective beginning last week, March 11, and continuing through March 31, AT&#038;T wireless postpaid customers will not be charged for: &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joethecouponguy.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joethecouponguy.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joethecouponguy.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joethecouponguy.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joethecouponguy.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joethecouponguy.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joethecouponguy.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joethecouponguy.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joethecouponguy.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}