{"id":746834,"date":"2013-04-16T18:35:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T22:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=443347"},"modified":"2013-04-16T18:35:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T22:35:27","slug":"softbank-plans-to-complete-sprint-merger-by-july-despite-offer-from-dish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/746834","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank plans to complete Sprint merger by July, despite offer from Dish"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/16\/softbank-sprint-merger-date-443347\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"430\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/sprint-sign-3.jpeg?w=650&#038;h=430&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C430\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Softbank plans to complete Sprint merger by July, despite offer from Dish\" title=\"Sprint\" \/><\/a><\/center>SoftBank doesn't appear to be worried about <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/15\/dish-sprint-acquisition-bid-438774\/\">Dish Network's recent bid for Sprint<\/a>. The Japanese carrier <a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20130415\/softbank-says-still-hopes-to-complete-sprint-deal-by-july\/\">said in a statement to <em>AllThingsD<\/em><\/a> that it believes <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/10\/12\/softbank-sprint-acquisition-analysis\/\">its proposed merger<\/a> offers a superior option to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/sprint\">Sprint<\/a> shareholders with both \"short and long-term benefits to Dish\u2019s highly conditional preliminary proposal.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/dish\">Dish<\/a> on Monday challenged <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/softbank\">SoftBank\u2019s<\/a> merger proposition with a bid of its own worth $25.5 billion. The proposed deal values the carrier at $7.00 per share, considerably higher than SoftBank's offer of $4.03 per share. Despite the higher bid, SoftBank remains confident and said that it expects the transaction to be completed by July 1st.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/7jrDPii-JDU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank doesn&#8217;t appear to be worried about Dish Network&#8217;s recent bid for Sprint. The Japanese carrier said in a statement to AllThingsD that it believes its proposed merger offers a superior option to Sprint shareholders with both &#8220;short and long-term benefits to Dish\u2019s highly conditional preliminary proposal.\u201d Dish on Monday challenged SoftBank\u2019s merger proposition with [&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":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38hI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746834","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=746834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}