{"id":648446,"date":"2013-03-22T18:42:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T22:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=392617"},"modified":"2013-03-22T18:42:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T22:42:11","slug":"sprint-thanks-genachowski-for-blocking-the-att-t-mobile-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/648446","title":{"rendered":"Sprint thanks Genachowski for blocking the AT&amp;T-T-Mobile merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/22\/sprint-genachowski-praise-392617\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/secret-popup.jpeg?w=650&amp;h=433&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sprint Genachowski Praise\" title=\"Julius Genachowski\" \/><\/a><\/center>Wireless carriers and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/22\/fcc-chairman-julius-genachowski-resigns-392216\/\">soon-to-be-former Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski<\/a> didn&#8217;t always see eye-to-eye, but it seems that at least one carrier will miss seeing him go. <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/sprint\">Sprint<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=s\">S<\/a>) on Friday <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.sprint.com\/article_display.cfm?article_id=2540\">put out a statement<\/a> commending Genachowski for his four-year tenure as head of the FCC and made a list of his accomplishments that the company said had made the wireless industry &#8220;better off as a result.&#8221; At the very top of Sprint&#8217;s list was Genachowski&#8217;s &#8220;decision to block AT&amp;T\u2019s (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=t\">T<\/a>) proposed takeover of T-Mobile,&#8221; a move that earned him <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/12\/17\/sprint-ceo-hesse-interview-att-t-mobile-256325\/\">kudos from Sprint CEO Dan Hesse<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2011\/12\/01\/att-issues-scathing-response-to-fcc-report\/\">scorn from AT&amp;T executive Jim Cicconi<\/a>, who said that the FCC&#8217;s decision was &#8220;so obviously one-sided that any fair-minded person reading it is left with the clear impression that it is an advocacy piece, and not a considered analysis.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/EB1wxbSWGhk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wireless carriers and soon-to-be-former Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski didn&#8217;t always see eye-to-eye, but it seems that at least one carrier will miss seeing him go. Sprint (S) on Friday put out a statement commending Genachowski for his four-year tenure as head of the FCC and made a list of his accomplishments that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648446","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\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}