{"id":5615,"date":"2011-03-20T14:31:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T21:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=5615"},"modified":"2011-03-20T14:31:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T21:31:10","slug":"att-to-acquire-t-mobile-usa-from-deutsche-telekom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/03\/20\/att-to-acquire-t-mobile-usa-from-deutsche-telekom\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T to Acquire T-Mobile USA From Deutsche Telekom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The news breaks on Sunday March 20th, 2011 that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.att.com\/gen\/press-room?pid=19358&amp;cdvn=news&amp;newsarticleid=31703&amp;mapcode=corporate|financial\" target=\"_blank\">AT&amp;T<\/a> has come to agreement to buy <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.t-mobile.com\/articles\/att-acquires-tmobile-USA\" target=\"_blank\">T-Mobile USA<\/a> from Deutsche Telekom.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AT&amp;T Inc. (NYSE: T) and Deutsche Telekom AG (FWB: DTE) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which AT&amp;T will acquire T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom in a cash-and-stock transaction currently valued at approximately $39 billion. The agreement has been approved by the Boards of Directors of both companies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"att_t-mobile\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/att_t-mobile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"159\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Both AT&amp;T and T-Mobile USA are working on next generation networks using HSPA+ and LTE. Even though both companies are currently on GSM and UMTS\/HSPA network, they are using <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/01\/11\/att-nexus-one-3g\/\" target=\"_blank\">different frequencies for the 3G network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously Bloomberg <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-03-08\/deutsche-telekom-is-said-to-discuss-sale-of-t-mobile-usa-to-sprint-nextel.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that Deutsche Telekom and Sprint are discussing merger of T-Mobile USA and Sprint. Such merger would have been an interesting move since T-Mobile is operates GSM while Sprint operates CDMA network.<\/p>\n<p>What would the future brings with the merger of AT&amp;T and T-Mobile USA? AT&amp;T would become America&#8217;s largest wireless carrier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news breaks on Sunday March 20th, 2011 that AT&amp;T has come to agreement to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom. AT&amp;T Inc. (NYSE: T) and Deutsche Telekom AG (FWB: DTE) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which AT&amp;T will acquire T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom in a cash-and-stock transaction &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/03\/20\/att-to-acquire-t-mobile-usa-from-deutsche-telekom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AT&#038;T to Acquire T-Mobile USA From Deutsche Telekom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,4],"tags":[421,2009,2511,2875,936],"class_list":["post-5615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-att","tag-media","tag-resources","tag-t-mobile","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-1sz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}