{"id":102185,"date":"2020-02-11T09:05:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T17:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/judge-approves-26-billion-merger-of-t-mobile-and-sprint"},"modified":"2020-02-11T09:05:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T17:05:56","slug":"judge-approves-26-billion-merger-of-t-mobile-and-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/judge-approves-26-billion-merger-of-t-mobile-and-sprint","title":{"rendered":"Judge approves $26 billion merger of T-Mobile and Sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/judge-approves-26-billion-merger-of-t-mobile-and-sprint.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several state attorneys general had argued that combining the No. 3 and No. 4 carriers would limit competition and result in higher prices for consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Sprint and T-Mobile say their merger will help them compete against top players AT&amp;T and Verizon, and advance efforts to build a nationwide 5G network. Andrew Harrer \/ Bloomberg via Getty Images file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several state attorneys general had argued that combining the No. 3 and No. 4 carriers would limit competition and result in higher prices for consumers. Sprint and T-Mobile say their merger will help them compete against top players AT&amp;T and Verizon, and advance efforts to build a nationwide 5G network. Andrew Harrer \/ Bloomberg via [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}