{"id":6897,"date":"2011-12-20T10:08:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T16:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=6897"},"modified":"2011-12-20T10:08:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T16:08:59","slug":"att-ditches-plans-to-acquire-t-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/culture\/att-ditches-plans-to-acquire-t-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T Ditches Plans To Acquire T-Mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a stunning display of bowing to what just about everyone else wants, AT&amp;T has announced <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/deals\/2011\/12\/19\/breaking-att-t-mobile-kill-merger\/\">they won&#8217;t merge<\/a> with T-Mobile USA. This isn&#8217;t too much of a shock after the FCC <a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.commobile\/fcc-puts-att-mobile-on-hold-may-disconnect-entirely\/\" target=\"_blank\">tutted at them last<\/a> month. Don&#8217;t cry for T-Mobile though. Thanks to a clever agreement, they&#8217;re walking away from the table with four billion dollars, as well as a massive chunk of wireless spectrum and a sweetheart of a roaming agreement on AT&amp;T&#8217;s massive network.<\/p>\n<p>Also coming out ahead are DISH network and Sprint. Both companies were vocal opponents of the merger and are now trading higher than usual. Conversely, AT&amp;T has only gone down about one percent so far. So aside from the fiscal hit, they&#8217;re not doing too shabby. T-Mobile USA&#8217;s fate is up in the air, but no other buyer would have the kind of impact AT&amp;T would. I honestly think the US market is a better place without AT&amp;T-Mobile locking up a huge segment of the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a stunning display of bowing to what just about everyone else wants, AT&amp;T has announced they won&#8217;t merge with T-Mobile USA. This isn&#8217;t too much of a shock after the FCC tutted at them last month. Don&#8217;t cry for T-Mobile though. Thanks to a clever agreement, they&#8217;re walking away from the table with four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[905,908],"tags":[65,1605,672,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6897"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6902,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6897\/revisions\/6902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}