{"id":176528,"date":"2019-07-26T14:26:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T19:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=176528"},"modified":"2019-07-26T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T20:36:15","slug":"sprint-t-mobile-merger-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=176528","title":{"rendered":"Sprint and  T-Mobile merger update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104215\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/HouseCellphones-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/HouseCellphones-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/HouseCellphones-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/HouseCellphones.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 T-Mobile CEO John Legere says he&#8217;s hoping to engage with state attorneys general who have sued to block its $26.5 billion takeover of Sprint.<\/p>\n<p>Legere says he believes the deal can close by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department approved the deal on Friday, clearing a major hurdle for a deal set to transform the telecom industry. To win approval, T-Mobile and Sprint agreed to sell some prepaid businesses and airwave rights for wireless service to satellite-TV company Dish.<\/p>\n<p>But many critics say that&#8217;s not good enough. Democratic attorneys general from 13 states have sued to stop the takeover, citing consumer harm. New York Attorney General Letitia James says having Dish as a smaller rival &#8220;will not address the merger&#8217;s harm to consumers, workers, and innovation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 T-Mobile CEO John Legere says he&#8217;s hoping to engage with state attorneys general who have sued to block its $26.5 billion takeover of Sprint. Legere says he believes the deal can close by the end of the year. The Justice Department approved the deal on Friday, clearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":104215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176536,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176528\/revisions\/176536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}