{"id":81785,"date":"2012-12-28T22:51:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T14:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/dish-network-requests-more-time-from-fcc-to-petition-softbank-sprint-deal\/"},"modified":"2012-12-28T22:51:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T14:51:14","slug":"dish-network-requests-more-time-from-fcc-to-petition-softbank-sprint-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/dish-network-requests-more-time-from-fcc-to-petition-softbank-sprint-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Dish Network Requests More Time from FCC to Petition SoftBank\/Sprint Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-28-12] <strong>Dish Network<\/strong> plans to request more time from the <strong>Federal Communications Commissions (FCC)<\/strong> to file a petition against Japan\u2019s <strong>SoftBank<\/strong> deal to take over <strong>Sprint Nextel,<\/strong> the company announced Dec. 28.<\/p>\n<p>\tDish Network\u2019s opposition of SoftBankCorp.\u2019s proposal to buy Sprint\u2019s 70 percent stake for $20.1 billion is due to Sprint\u2019s recent plan to buyback <strong>Clearwire <\/strong>for $2.2 billion. The acquisition of Clearwire will not only make Sprint the largest Spectrum holder in the United States with 185 MHz of combined spectrum but will also widen the gap with two top carriers Verizon Wireless and AT&amp;T.<br \/>\n\tDish Network recently received the FCC\u2019s approval to utilize those unused spectrum to set up a wireless network and believes that Sprint\u2019s decision to acquire full stake in Clearwire will create a largely dominant force in the wireless industry.<br \/>\n\tIf SoftBank acquires Sprint, it will give access to nearly 184 MHz of spectrum (51 MHz of Sprint and 134 MHz of Clearwire)\u2014making a foreign company the largest holder of spectrum.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-28-12] Dish Network plans to request more time from the Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) to file a petition against Japan\u2019s SoftBank deal to take over Sprint Nextel, the company announced Dec. 28. Dish Network\u2019s opposition of SoftBankCorp.\u2019s proposal to buy Sprint\u2019s 70 percent stake for $20.1 billion is due to Sprint\u2019s recent plan to buyback [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}