{"id":23189,"date":"2020-04-01T17:33:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T00:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23189"},"modified":"2020-04-01T17:33:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T00:33:38","slug":"t-mobile-sprint-complete-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23189","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile, Sprint complete merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T-Mobile announced Wednesday that its merger with Sprint has been completed, wrapping up a multiyear process rife with legal challenges.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the $26 billion merger, longtime T-Mobile CEO John Legere will step down and be replaced by Mike Sievert, T-Mobile&#8217;s president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During this extraordinary time, it has become abundantly clear how vital a strong and reliable network is to the world we live in,&#8221; Sievert said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The New T-Mobile&#8217;s commitment to delivering a transformative broad and deep nationwide 5G network is more important and more needed than ever and what we are building is mission-critical for consumers,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>The new company will retain the name T-Mobile, and Legere will continue to serve on the board.<\/p>\n<p>The final hurdle to merge the country&#8217;s third- and fourth-largest wireless providers was cleared in February when a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit from 15 state attorneys general (AGs) seeking to block the merger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T-Mobile announced Wednesday that its merger&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23189","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=23189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23190,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23189\/revisions\/23190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}