{"id":652357,"date":"2013-04-15T07:30:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T11:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=438774"},"modified":"2013-04-15T07:30:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T11:30:10","slug":"dish-challenges-softbank-with-25-5-billion-sprint-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652357","title":{"rendered":"Dish challenges SoftBank with $25.5 billion Sprint bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/15\/dish-sprint-acquisition-bid-438774\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"422\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/dish-sign.jpg?w=650&amp;h=422&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Dish challenges Softbank with $25.5 billion Sprint bid\" title=\"Dish Network\" \/><\/a><\/center>Dish Network has been looking to make serious inroads in the mobile market and it looks like the company has identified an appealing new option. <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/dish\">Dish<\/a> on Monday announced that it is challenging <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/10\/12\/softbank-sprint-acquisition-analysis\/\">SoftBank&#8217;s plans for a Sprint merger<\/a>\u00a0with a bid of its own \u2014 $25.5 billion in total, which consists of $17.3 billion in cash and $8.2 billion in stock. The proposed Dish deal would give\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/sprint\">Sprint<\/a> shareholders $7.00 per share, which represents a healthy premium over SoftBank&#8217;s offer of $4.03 per share. Sprint shares were up more than 12.5% in Monday&#8217;s pre-market session on the news. Dish&#8217;s full press release follows below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/15\/dish-sprint-acquisition-bid-438774\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/Pl0-ySPEDls\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dish Network has been looking to make serious inroads in the mobile market and it looks like the company has identified an appealing new option. Dish on Monday announced that it is challenging SoftBank&#8217;s plans for a Sprint merger\u00a0with a bid of its own \u2014 $25.5 billion in total, which consists of $17.3 billion in [&hellip;]<\/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-652357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652357","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=652357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}