{"id":1059,"date":"2011-09-22T16:28:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T20:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2011-09-22T16:28:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T20:28:57","slug":"apple-should-buy-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1059","title":{"rendered":"apple should buy sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/story\/11257209\/1\/sprint-nextel-stock-hits-new-52-week-low-s.html\">The Street<\/a>, Sprint-Nextel is at a 52-week low with today&#8217;s closing price. Their market cap is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/finance?q\">$10 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apple as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/finance?aapl\">$70 billion<\/a> in cash on hand.<\/p>\n<p>Google is <a href=\"http:\/\/investor.google.com\/releases\/2011\/0815.html\">buying<\/a> Motorola.<\/p>\n<p>I think Apple should buy Sprint. And they should stop distributing the iPhone via Verizon and AT&amp;T in the US.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>guarantee a distribution channel for media which Apple proffers<\/li>\n<li>boost Sprint&#8217;s value<\/li>\n<li>accelerate the deployment of 4g (and better) network technologies (<em>a la<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2011\/07\/06\/lightsquared\/\">LightSquared<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It would also give, in my opinion, a strong leg-up for Sprint on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=4&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CEAQFjAD&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.consumerreports.org%2Felectronics%2F2011%2F09%2Fspring-files-suit-against-att-and-t-mobile-merger.html&amp;ei=dpp7TozpFpD-sQLBg8GsAw&amp;usg=AFQjCNEo3ew7g6Tr7XxnQDkstvUBmfTGkw\">suit<\/a> against AT&amp;T&#8217;s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Street, Sprint-Nextel is at a 52-week low with today&#8217;s closing price. Their market cap is $10 billion. Apple as $70 billion in cash on hand. Google is buying Motorola. I think Apple should buy Sprint. And they should stop distributing the iPhone via Verizon and AT&amp;T in the US. guarantee a distribution &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1059\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">apple should buy sprint<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,30,41],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-news","category-technical"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}