{"id":87589,"date":"2010-01-28T01:15:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T17:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/centris-u-s-consumers-spending-more-on-communication-services\/"},"modified":"2010-01-28T01:15:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T17:15:02","slug":"centris-u-s-consumers-spending-more-on-communication-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/centris-u-s-consumers-spending-more-on-communication-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Centris: U.S. Consumers Spending More on Communication  Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[01-27-10] Contrary to the economic downturn, the United States is experiencing an uptick in consumption spending for communications services among voice, video, and data market segments, according to a report from research firm <strong>Centris<\/strong>, issued Jan. 26. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Centris \u201cInsights\u201d report shows that U.S. households that have four or more wireless phones, premium TV services, and Internet access spend approximately $300 per month on their communications services.  \tAccording to the report\u2019s findings, monthly household wireless service expenses in the U.S. climbed to over $93 in November 2009. Satellite and cable TV bills grew to over $72 per month and Internet bills were over $40 per month, representing an increase over the last two years.  <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cOur past reports showed a decline and bottoming-out in consumer spending in key areas until November of last year, when growth started to return. The most recent Insights report seems to support the notion that the economy may be headed for a significant rebound,\u201d Centris President William Beaumont said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[01-27-10] Contrary to the economic downturn, the United States is experiencing an uptick in consumption spending for communications services among voice, video, and data market segments, according to a report from research firm Centris, issued Jan. 26. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Centris \u201cInsights\u201d report shows that U.S. households that have four or more wireless phones, premium TV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}