{"id":2387,"date":"2011-10-22T22:41:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T22:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2011-10-22T22:41:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T22:41:01","slug":"gore-att-will-have-difficulty-overcoming-department-of-justice-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=2387","title":{"rendered":"Gore: AT&amp;T Will Have Difficulty Overcoming Department of Justice Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While AT&amp;T continues to\u00c2\u00a0fight a legal battle with the Department of Justice to move forward with its ambitious T-Mobile takeover, former Vice President Al Gore expressed skepticism about the pending deal moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the AsiaD conference yesterday, Gore said that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rare for the Department of Justice to fight against a merger with such aggression, according to This is My Next.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be reviewed,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Gore explained to the audience. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My guess is that the Justice Department so rarely undertakes an initiative like the one they took against that merger. I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be hard to overturn that measure. Both companies will try to put it back together, but they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be well advised to start looking at other strategies.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Gore also spoke briefly regarding the passing of Steve Jobs. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no one like Steve,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the kind of guy that comes along once every 250 years. He was totally unique. So obviously his death is a terrible loss for the entire world. And we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll all miss him. But his legacy lives on.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While AT&amp;T continues to\u00c2\u00a0fight a legal battle with the Department of Justice to move forward with its ambitious T-Mobile takeover, former Vice President Al Gore expressed skepticism about the pending deal moving forward. Speaking at the AsiaD conference yesterday, Gore said that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rare for the Department of Justice to fight against a merger with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}