{"id":171089,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/week-4-discussion-2-antitrust-law-2"},"modified":"2017-08-18T05:55:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T05:55:33","slug":"week-4-discussion-2-antitrust-law-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/week-4-discussion-2-antitrust-law-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 4 Discussion 2 Antitrust Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Review the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/700208468\/ATT-pulls-39-billion-T-Mobile-bid.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AT&amp;T Pulls $39 Billion T-Mobile Bid on Regulatory Opposition<\/a>&#8221; article. <\/p>\n<p>In 2011, AT&amp;T attempted a merger with T-Mobile. The Justice Department sued under the act, claiming that the merger would constitute a violation of the antitrust laws. In 2012, AT&amp;T dropped its attempt at the acquisition. <\/p>\n<p>If AT&amp;T had merged with T-Mobile, would the merger have violated antitrust laws? Why, or why not? Do not be unduly influenced by the Justice Department\u2019s stance on the issue. Use your own analysis to reach a conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review the \u201cAT&amp;T Pulls $39 Billion T-Mobile Bid on Regulatory Opposition&#8221; article. In 2011, AT&amp;T attempted a merger with T-Mobile. The Justice Department sued under the act, claiming that the merger would constitute a violation of the antitrust laws. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/week-4-discussion-2-antitrust-law-2\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}