{"id":16667,"date":"2019-04-29T19:40:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T02:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16667"},"modified":"2019-04-29T19:40:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T02:40:39","slug":"t-mobile-sprint-push-back-merger-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16667","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile, Sprint push back merger deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T-Mobile and Sprint are again extending the deadline to complete their proposed merger, according to a Monday filing by T-Mobile with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/grlnsjwqmccdfjfcdkrmmdnnmwdpcwchhtmqjlptgwknm_idzymmvhvwymmdmncyyz.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/grlnsjwqmccdfjfcdkrmmdnnmwdpcwchhtmqjlptgwknm_idzymmvhvwymmdmncyyz.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1556677877023000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFfP8aU53UWbp0ZDMClSpXPY-vitw\">Securities and Exchange Commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The telecommunications giants now have until July 29 as they seek approval of their $26 billion deal from officials at the Justice Department (DOJ) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The previous deadline was this Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It has been about a year since T-Mobile and Sprint announced their plan to merge.<\/p>\n<p>Makan Delrahim, the top antitrust official at the DOJ, on Monday said he has not made up his mind yet about the merger between two of the nation&#8217;s four larger mobile carriers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have not made up my mind,&#8221; Delrahim told CNBC. He said the DOJ is &#8220;continuing to investigate&#8221; the effects the merger could have on prices for consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T-Mobile and Sprint are again extending&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16668,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16667\/revisions\/16668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}