{"id":9653,"date":"2011-12-24T07:34:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T07:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/what_you_may_not_know_about_the_att_t-mobile_breakup.html"},"modified":"2011-12-24T07:34:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T07:34:58","slug":"what-you-may-not-know-about-the-att-t-mobile-breakup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/what-you-may-not-know-about-the-att-t-mobile-breakup.html","title":{"rendered":"What You May not Know About the AT&#038;T T-Mobile Breakup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of my readers no doubt know that AT&#038;T has decided not to pursue the acquisition of T-Mobile USA because the US government deemed the transaction would hurt consumers.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best articles I have seen on the matter however comes from the <a href=\"http:\/\/topnews360.tmcnet.com\/topics\/associated-press\/articles\/2011\/12\/22\/248289-att-drops-39b-t-mobile-bid-duopoly-averted.htm\">AP<\/a> and is worth a read. Here are some highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Justice Department had sued on Aug. 31 to block the merger.<\/li>\n<li>AT&#038;T&#8217;s purchase of fourth&ndash;ranked T&ndash;Mobile, announced in March, would have made it the largest cellphone company in the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>AT&#038;T will now have to pay Deutsche Telekom $3 billion in cash as a breakup fee and give it about $1 billion worth of spectrum.<\/li>\n<li>It will also enter into a roaming agreement with Deutsche Telekom so that AT&#038;T&#8217;s and T&ndash;Mobile&#8217;s customers can use each other&#8217;s networks.<\/li>\n<li>Craig Moffett says AT&#038;T&#8217;s spectrum needs aren&#8217;t so grave that it needs to make a large acquisition right away.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of my readers no doubt know that AT&#038;T has decided not to pursue the acquisition of T-Mobile USA because the US government deemed the transaction would hurt consumers. One of the best articles I have seen on the matter however comes from the AP and is worth a read. Here are some highlights: The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,168,171,1677,118,174,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}