{"id":25290,"date":"2019-05-21T11:29:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T15:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=25290"},"modified":"2019-05-21T11:36:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T15:36:07","slug":"wsj-applauds-fcc-chairman-pai-commissioner-carr-in-support-of-t-mobile-sprint-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25290\/wsj-applauds-fcc-chairman-pai-commissioner-carr-in-support-of-t-mobile-sprint-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"WSJ Applauds FCC Chairman Pai, Commissioner Carr in Support of T-Mobile\/Sprint Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/press-room\/4532-cfif-applauds-announcement-of-support-for-t-mobilesprint-merger-by-fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-and-commissioner-brendan-carr\">Echoing CFIF<\/a>, today&#8217;s <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> board editorial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/blessing-the-t-mobile-sprint-merger-11558394053?mod=itp_wsj&amp;ru=yahoo\">applauds<\/a> Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai&#8217;s and Commissioner Brendan Carr&#8217;s expressions of support for the proposed T-Mobile\/Sprint merger:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By joining forces, T-Mobile and Sprint will be better positioned to compete against wireless leaders Verizon and AT&amp;T in the 5G era. \u00a0 Sprint is sitting on loads of mid-band spectrum that boosts wireless speeds while T-Mobile boasts ample low-band spectrum that provides coverage.\u00a0 The combination is likely to provide a faster, denser network.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As they rightly conclude, &#8220;government penalties pale next to the powerful market incentives that already exist for Sprint and T-Mobile to rapidly build out their networks lest they lose market share to Verizon, AT&amp;T, cable companies and even satellite startups being launched by Amazon and SpaceX.&#8221;\u00a0 Well put.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Echoing CFIF, today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal board editorial applauds Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai&#8217;s and Commissioner Brendan Carr&#8217;s expressions of support for the proposed T-Mobile\/Sprint merger: By joining forces, T-Mobile and Sprint will be better positioned to compete against wireless leaders Verizon and AT&amp;T in the 5G era. \u00a0 Sprint is sitting on [&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":[188,346,4197,3013],"class_list":["post-25290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-fcc","tag-federal-communications-commission","tag-sprint","tag-t-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25290","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=25290"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25294,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25290\/revisions\/25294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}