{"id":25260,"date":"2019-04-22T13:09:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=25260"},"modified":"2019-04-22T16:07:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T20:07:53","slug":"wsj-urges-approval-of-proposed-t-mobile-sprint-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25260\/wsj-urges-approval-of-proposed-t-mobile-sprint-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"WSJ Urges Regulators to Approve T-Mobile\/Sprint Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We at CFIF have steadfastly <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25154\/proposed-t-mobile-sprint-merger-would-be-a-win-for-american-consumers\/\">highlighted<\/a> the consumer benefits of the proposed T-Mobile\/Sprint merger, and cautioned the federal government against any pointless and destructive objection to the deal.\u00a0 In today&#8217;s <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>, its editorial board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/justice-drops-another-call-11555876014?mod=itp_wsj&amp;ru=yahoo\">encourages<\/a> the Department of Justice (DOJ) to move forward on the deal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Justice Department lost its lawsuit to block AT&amp;T&#8217;s purchase of Time Warner.\u00a0 Yet now the antitrust cops are holding up T-Mobile&#8217;s merger with Sprint even though it could give AT&amp;T more competition in wireless.\u00a0 What gives?<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, T-Mobile announced plans to acquire Sprint for $26 billion in stock, yet the merger is still stuck in government antitrust purgatory.\u00a0 The Federal Communications Commission keeps pausing its 180-day shot clock on the merger review to let staff and third parties dig through documents to trash the deal.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The piece goes on to neatly summarize the benefits the merger would bring:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With more than 100 million customers, the new T-Mobile would be a stronger competitor to Verizon Wireless (118 million) and AT&amp;T (94 million).\u00a0 It would also offer a broader mix of spectrum that would improve service.\u00a0 T-Mobile boasts low-band spectrum that increases coverage in rural areas.\u00a0 Sprint is sitting on mid-band spectrum that can transmit more data at higher speeds in urban areas.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Simply put, it&#8217;s time for regulators to approve the merger to release the fruits that it promises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We at CFIF have steadfastly highlighted the consumer benefits of the proposed T-Mobile\/Sprint merger, and cautioned the federal government against any pointless and destructive objection to the deal.\u00a0 In today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal, its editorial board encourages the Department of Justice (DOJ) to move forward on the deal: The Justice Department lost its lawsuit to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5022,466,3494,188,3223,4197,3013,2566],"class_list":["post-25260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-5g","tag-antitrust","tag-doj","tag-fcc","tag-merger","tag-sprint","tag-t-mobile","tag-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25260","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25260"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25269,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25260\/revisions\/25269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}