{"id":170002,"date":"2019-10-25T19:53:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T11:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=259746"},"modified":"2019-10-25T19:53:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T11:53:31","slug":"doj-questions-attempt-to-block-t-mobile-sprint-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/25\/doj-questions-attempt-to-block-t-mobile-sprint-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"DoJ questions attempt to block T-Mobile, Sprint merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tThe US Department of Justice (DoJ) questioned the legality of a bid by 16 state attorney generals to block T-Mobile US and Sprint\u2019s merger plan, reported Bloomberg Law.<\/p>\n<p>In a court hearing, the DoJ and operators said a lawsuit filed by attorney generals seeking to prevent the combination raised &#8220;serious constitutional concerns&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The parties made the assertion during a hearing at the DC US District Court, which routinely reviews government merger settlements. The court is assessing the DoJ&#8217;s decision to approve the merger [1] following commitments by the operators to divest assets to Dish Network, Bloomberg Law stated.<\/p>\n<p>Regulator the Federal Communications Commission also moved to greenlight the merger, albeit by a slender majority [2].<\/p>\n<p>The merger faced stiff opposition since being announced in 2018 [3], with the states involved in the lawsuit citing concerns the deal will negatively affect jobs and consumer choice by reducing the number of major operators from four to three<\/p>\n<p>During this week&#8217;s MWC19 Los Angeles event, Sprint Business president Jan Geldmacher said he expects the merger to be pushed through [4] at a court showdown with the states in December.<\/p>\n<p>T-Mobile, meanwhile, continued a campaign to overcome the attorney generals&#8217; objections: this week, Colorado became the second state to drop out of the lawsuit [5] following commitments by the operator around 5G coverage and pricing.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/home-banner\/sprint-t-mobile-merger-wins-doj-approval\/<br \/>\n[2] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/fcc-moves-closer-to-t-mobile-sprint-clearance\/<br \/>\n[3] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/home-banner\/t-mobile-to-lead-combined-co-in-sprint-merger\/<br \/>\n[4] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/sprint-pushes-t-mobile-deal-as-lawsuit-looms\/<br \/>\n[5] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/t-mobile-turns-another-state-in-merger-battle\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Justice (DoJ) questioned the legality of a bid by 16 state &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/doj-questions-attempt-to-block-t-mobile-sprint-merger\/\">DoJ questions attempt to block T-Mobile, Sprint merger<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/25\/doj-questions-attempt-to-block-t-mobile-sprint-merger\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,2328,2329,2185,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-IdY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}