{"id":10073,"date":"2011-06-10T16:12:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T20:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10073"},"modified":"2011-06-10T16:19:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T20:19:58","slug":"california-tries-to-block-att-t-mobile-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10073\/california-tries-to-block-att-t-mobile-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"California Tries to Block AT&#038;T, T-Mobile Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those wacky California bureaucrats are at it again!\u00a0 Reporting by the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304259304576376053066442190.html?mod=rss_Technology\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> says that Golden State regulators \u201cmoved ahead Thursday with an investigation into AT&amp;T Inc.\u2019s $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA, raising a fresh hurdle for the U.S. wireless giant as it seeks the government\u2019s blessing to acquire its third-largest competitor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report goes on to explain that AT&amp;T doesn&#8217;t need California\u2019s blessing, only a green light from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).\u00a0 Nonetheless, California\u2019s objection could \u201ccarry weight\u201d with the FCC\u2019s board of governors, potentially scuttling the merger.\u00a0 Not bad for a group of regulators with zero jurisdiction over the matter.<\/p>\n<p>With California staring at a multi-billion dollar deficit, perhaps this is the kind of government agency whose funding should be cut \u2013 or eliminated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those wacky California bureaucrats are at it again!\u00a0 Reporting by the Wall Street Journal says that Golden State regulators \u201cmoved ahead Thursday with an investigation into AT&amp;T Inc.\u2019s $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA, raising a fresh hurdle for the U.S. wireless giant as it seeks the government\u2019s blessing to acquire its third-largest competitor.\u201d The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2776,299,346,300,2566],"class_list":["post-10073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bureaucrat","tag-california","tag-federal-communications-commission","tag-regulation","tag-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10073"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10076,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073\/revisions\/10076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}