{"id":744110,"date":"2013-03-29T09:33:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T13:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=403130"},"modified":"2013-03-29T09:33:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T13:33:54","slug":"sprint-softbank-agree-to-ditch-huawei-over-spy-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/744110","title":{"rendered":"Sprint, Softbank agree to ditch Huawei over spy concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/29\/sprint-softbank-merger-huawei-equipment-403130\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"430\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/sprint-sign-3987.jpeg?w=650&#038;h=430&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C430\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sprint Softbank Merger Huawei Equipment\" title=\"Sprint\" \/><\/a><\/center>Sprint (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=s\">S<\/a>) and Japanese carrier <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/softbank\">Softbank<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=sftby\">SFTBY<\/a>) have confirmed to U.S. lawmakers they won't use equipment from <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/huawei\">Huawei<\/a> following their upcoming merger, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-03-28\/softbank-sprint-pledge-not-to-use-huawei-lawmaker-says.html\"><em>Bloomberg<\/em> reported<\/a>. Softbank announced plans last October to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/10\/15\/softbank-sprint-acquisition-details-20-billion-dollars\/\">pay more than $20 billion to acquire a 70% stake in Sprint<\/a>. The deal was approved by the board of directors at both companies and was awaiting the green light from the Federal Communications Commission. <br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/29\/sprint-softbank-merger-huawei-equipment-403130\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/K7oOPLiPoao\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sprint (S) and Japanese carrier Softbank (SFTBY) have confirmed to U.S. lawmakers they won&#8217;t use equipment from Huawei following their upcoming merger, Bloomberg reported. Softbank announced plans last October to pay more than $20 billion to acquire a 70% stake in Sprint. The deal was approved by the board of directors at both companies and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-37zM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}