{"id":646411,"date":"2013-03-12T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/?p=153998"},"modified":"2013-03-12T13:00:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T17:00:40","slug":"t-mobilemetropcs-fcc-approval-may-be-near-as-vote-date-approaches-for-metropcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/646411","title":{"rendered":"T-Mobile\/MetroPCS FCC approval may be near as vote date approaches for MetroPCS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a  href=\"http:\/\/redirectingat.com\/?id=3031X597718&#038;xs=1&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.talkandroid.com%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F02%2FTMobile_MetroPCS_Merger_Date.jpg&#038;sref=rss\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-151971\" alt=\"TMobile_MetroPCS_Merger_Date\" src=\"http:\/\/img.talkandroid.com\/uploads\/2013\/02\/TMobile_MetroPCS_Merger_Date.jpg\" width=\"482\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/151961-metropcs-sets-march-28-as-date-to-vote-on-t-mobile-merger\/\">MetroPCS scheduled to vote on a merger<\/a> with T-Mobile only a couple weeks away, the deal appears to have moved closer to obtaining FCC approval. An attorney for the Communication Workers of America Union claims the deal will be approved &#8220;at the bureau level instead of the commission level.&#8221; The union is watching the proceedings closely as they have concerns about the merger and this apparent move by the FCC to usher approval on through does not sit well with the union. Debbie Goldman, a director with the CWA refers to the possible FCC decision as &#8220;outrageous&#8221; and &#8220;unprecedented.&#8221;\u00a0Despite the CWA&#8217;s concerns, others see this latest development as positive news. David Kuat, an analyst with Stifel Nicolaus &amp; Co., believes the lack of commission level action reveals the deal to be &#8220;basically non-controversial&#8221; and that &#8220;no one thinks this is going to be blocked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>source: <a  href=\"http:\/\/redirectingat.com\/?id=3031X597718&#038;xs=1&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tmonews.com%2F2013%2F03%2Ffcc-may-approve-t-mobilemetropcs-merger-without-full-vote%2F&#038;sref=rss\">TmoNews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Come comment on this article: <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/153998-t-mobilemetropcs-fcc-approval-may-be-near-as-vote-date-approaches-for-metropcs\/\">T-Mobile\/MetroPCS FCC approval may be near as vote date approaches for MetroPCS<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\"><small>Visit <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/\">TalkAndroid for Android news<\/a>, <a  rel=\"dofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkandroid.com\/guides\/\">Android guides<\/a>, and much more!<\/small><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AndroidNewsGoogleAndroidForums\/~4\/L_K10FGGGgU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With MetroPCS scheduled to vote on a merger with T-Mobile only a couple weeks away, the deal appears to have moved closer to obtaining FCC approval. An attorney for the Communication Workers of America Union claims the deal will be approved &#8220;at the bureau level instead of the commission level.&#8221; The union is watching the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646411","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\/7608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}