{"id":655012,"date":"2013-04-29T12:40:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T16:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=472605"},"modified":"2013-04-29T12:40:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T16:40:13","slug":"softbank-gives-sprint-waiver-to-discuss-proposed-dish-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/655012","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank gives Sprint waiver to discuss proposed Dish merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/29\/sprint-dish-merger-472605\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/sprint-sign110831171754.jpeg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sprint Dish Merger\" title=\"Sprint Dish Merger\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Although Japanese carrier\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/10\/15\/softbank-ceo-son-explains-sprint-acquisition\/\">SoftBank has been courting Sprint for the past several months<\/a>, it&#8217;s apparently willing to let the carrier see other companies. <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.sprint.com\/article_display.cfm?article_id=2576\">Sprint announced<\/a> on Monday that it had received &#8220;a waiver of various provisions of the merger agreement&#8221; with SoftBank\u00a0so that it can enter into a non-disclosure agreement and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/18\/dish-sprint-merger-request-448113\/\">discussions with Dish to learn more about its competing merger proposal<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/sprint\">Sprint<\/a> may not enter into negotiations with <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/dish\">Dish<\/a> under the waiver, nor is it allowed to give Dish any non-public information. Instead, the point of the talks is to decide whether Dish&#8217;s offer represents a better deal for the company that would give it ample reason to break off its merger with SoftBank.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/JTHV62ilrX0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Japanese carrier\u00a0SoftBank has been courting Sprint for the past several months, it&#8217;s apparently willing to let the carrier see other companies. Sprint announced on Monday that it had received &#8220;a waiver of various provisions of the merger agreement&#8221; with SoftBank\u00a0so that it can enter into a non-disclosure agreement and discussions with Dish to learn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655012","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=655012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}