{"id":60576,"date":"2009-12-02T19:40:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T00:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091202\/1251237166.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-02T19:40:32","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T00:40:32","slug":"theres-an-apology-for-that-att-dismisses-its-pointless-lawsuit-against-verizon-over-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/60576","title":{"rendered":"There’s An Apology For That: AT&T Dismisses Its Pointless Lawsuit Against Verizon Over Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"

We still don’t understand why AT&T called so much more attention to Verizon’s ads that highlight AT&T’s weak 3G network coverage by suing over the ads<\/a>. Things were made worse when a judge refused<\/a> to block the ads from airing. Perhaps finally realizing that all this was doing was creating free advertising for Verizon — and more attention on the quality of AT&T’s network — the company has decided to drop the lawsuit<\/a>. Apparently, instead, it’s going to focus on its own misleading ad campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We still don’t understand why AT&T called so much more attention to Verizon’s ads that highlight AT&T’s weak 3G network coverage by suing over the ads. Things were made worse when a judge refused to block the ads from airing. Perhaps finally realizing that all this was doing was creating free advertising for Verizon — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}