{"id":216,"date":"2009-06-03T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2009-06-03T06:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T06:20:00","slug":"extending-friends-and-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Extending friends and family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/MTS-All-Access-Plan-Offers-cnw-15138735.html?.v=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"MTS\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gstconferences.com\/gst\/logos\/sponsors_168_mts_allstream.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>MTS has <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/MTS-All-Access-Plan-Offers-cnw-15138735.html?.v=2\">introduced<\/a> a new mobile call plan for Manitobans that lays out a challenge to Shaw to respond with a mobile service.<\/p>\n<p>The MTS All Access Plan offers MTS mobility customers unlimited local and long distance calling to all MTS residential, business, and MTS Mobility phone numbers within Manitoba, representing unlimited local and long distance calling to more than one million phone numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The calling plan is bundled with 300 weekday minutes and unlimited evening and weekend calling (after 6:00 p.m) for $40. High speed or MTS TV customers save an additional $5.<\/p>\n<p>The plan seems designed to help reduce migration to cable-based telephony while leveraging the strong market position that MTS enjoys for wireless service in its home market.<\/p>\n<p>MTS Allstream Consumer Markets president Kelvin Shepherd will be speaking on our panel about The Broadband Connected Home on Wednesday June 17 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telecomsummit.com\/\" _base_href=\"http:\/\/www.gstconferences.com\/\" style=\"color: rgb(128, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;\"><strong style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;\">The 2009 Canadian Telecom Summit<\/strong><\/a>. Have you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gstconferences.com\/registration\">registered<\/a> yet?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-size:78%;\">Technorati Tags:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/MTS+Allstream\" rel=\"tag\">MTS Allstream<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Canadian+Telecom+Summit\" rel=\"tag\">Canadian Telecom Summit<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTS has introduced a new mobile call plan for Manitobans that lays out a challenge to Shaw to respond with a mobile service. The MTS All Access Plan offers MTS mobility customers unlimited local and long distance calling to all MTS residential, business, and MTS Mobility phone numbers within Manitoba, representing unlimited local and long &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=216\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Extending friends and family<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Extending friends and family &#8226; Telecom Trends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"MTS has introduced a new mobile call plan for Manitobans that lays out a challenge to Shaw to respond with a mobile service.The MTS All Access Plan offers &#8226; 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