{"id":485,"date":"2011-12-20T20:22:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T20:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2011-12-20T20:22:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T20:22:52","slug":"good-news-att-withdraws-its-39-billion-bid-to-acquire-t-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2011\/12\/good-news-att-withdraws-its-39-billion-bid-to-acquire-t-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News! AT&#038;T withdraws its $39 billion bid to acquire T-Mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analyst Tero Kuittinen said that T-Mobile &#8220;must now explore more creative opportunities \u2014 for instance, seeking partnerships with media giants like Amazon, Facebook or Google. T-Mobile\u2019s spectrum, not its customer base, is its most valuable asset.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A commenter on a forum noted:<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>As a long-time T-Mobile customer, I can only say I am relieved to read that this is over, at least for now. The mere thought of one of the highest-priced carriers with the lowest customer service rating would be taking over the one carrier with the lowest rates and best customer service made me shudder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Too true!<\/p>\n<p>T-Mobile is not &#8220;damaged&#8221; as AT&amp;T claims&#8230; besides being four billion dollars richer, many T-Mobile customers were opposed to this deal, and are relieved that the company can once again focus on its customers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analyst Tero Kuittinen said that T-Mobile &#8220;must now explore more creative opportunities \u2014 for instance, seeking partnerships with media giants like Amazon, Facebook or Google. T-Mobile\u2019s spectrum, not its customer base, is its most valuable asset.&#8221; A commenter on a forum noted: As a long-time T-Mobile customer, I can only say I am relieved to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2011\/12\/good-news-att-withdraws-its-39-billion-bid-to-acquire-t-mobile\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good News! AT&#038;T withdraws its $39 billion bid to acquire T-Mobile&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-latest-news","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p415hC-7P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}