{"id":660768,"date":"2013-05-29T09:30:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T13:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=621030"},"modified":"2013-05-29T09:30:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T13:30:08","slug":"sprint-softbank-merger-receives-security-clearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/660768","title":{"rendered":"Sprint-SoftBank merger receives security clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/29\/sprint-softbank-merger-approved\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/softbank-logo-sign.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sprint SoftBank Merger Approved\" title=\"Sprint SoftBank Merger Approved\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Sprint on Wednesday confirmed that it has received the go-ahead from the U.S. government to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/10\/15\/softbank-sprint-acquisition-details-20-billion-dollars\/\">merge with Japanese carrier SoftBank<\/a>. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) had been investigating the proposed acquisition to ensure that it doesn&#8217;t pose a risk to national security. The government was worried about the use of telecom equipment from ZTE and Huawei, however <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/softbank\">SoftBank&#8217;s<\/a> CEO confirmed there are <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/29\/sprint-softbank-merger-huawei-equipment-403130\/\">no plans to use Chinese equipment<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/sprint\">Sprint<\/a> and SoftBank\u00a0have entered into a National Security Agreement with the U.S. government and now only await the green light from the Federal Communications Commission. <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324809804578511722819972536.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">According to <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0the deal requires the two companies to have a four-member national security committee, which will include a security director on Sprint&#8217;s board of directors that has the power to veto equipment purchases. Sprint&#8217;s press release follows below. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/29\/sprint-softbank-merger-approved\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/LUd-YZlibZI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sprint on Wednesday confirmed that it has received the go-ahead from the U.S. government to merge with Japanese carrier SoftBank. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) had been investigating the proposed acquisition to ensure that it doesn&#8217;t pose a risk to national security. The government was worried about the use of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660768","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\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}