{"id":31028,"date":"2017-05-31T09:47:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T09:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=31028"},"modified":"2017-05-31T09:47:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T09:47:12","slug":"deutsche-telekom-ceo-says-u-s-ma-regulations-look-good-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/business\/deutsche-telekom-ceo-says-u-s-ma-regulations-look-good-trump.html","title":{"rendered":"Deutsche Telekom CEO says U.S. M&#038;A regulations look good under Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:22px;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Deutsche Telekom CEO says U.S. M&amp;A regulations look good under Trump<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\">Deutsche Telekom&nbsp;is optimistic about the regulatory environment in the United States under the Trump administration.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\">T-Mobile US, which is controlled by Deutsche Telekom, is at the center of M&amp;A speculation. Investors hope a pro-business government under Trump will be more open to large deals and that could spark a wave of consolidation in the U.S. telecoms and media sectors.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\">Asked what signals Deutsche Telekom has received from the new administration, Chief Executive Tim Hoettges said ahead of the company&#39;s annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday: &quot;The regulatory environment looks good.&quot;<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\">Three years ago, Sprint Corp (S.N), which is controlled by Japan&#39;s Softbank (9984.T), walked away from buying T-Mobile US after regulators indicated that such a deal would not be approved.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\">Hoettges said Deutsche Telekom is in touch with the regulators on a constant basis.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\">Reuters earlier this year reported that Softbank is prepared to give up control of Sprint to T-Mobile US Inc to clinch a merger of the two U.S. wireless carriers, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:8px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Source:-&nbsp;http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-deutsche-telekom-usa-idUSKBN18R0YQ<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/business\/deutsche-telekom-ceo-says-u-s-ma-regulations-look-good-trump.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deutsche Telekom CEO says U.S. M&amp;A regulations look good under Trump Deutsche Telekom&nbsp;is optimistic about the regulatory environment in the United States under the Trump administration. T-Mobile US, which is controlled by Deutsche Telekom, is at the center of M&amp;A speculation. Investors hope a pro-business government under Trump will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[19241],"class_list":["post-31028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-deutsche-telekom-ceo-says-u-s-ma-regulations-look-good-under-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}