{"id":2054,"date":"2009-07-06T14:52:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T18:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2009-07-06T15:01:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T19:01:07","slug":"report-doj-probing-telecom-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/07\/06\/report-doj-probing-telecom-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: DoJ probing telecom industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department <a title=\"reportedly has launched a probe\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124689740762401297.html\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly has launched a probe <\/a>to see if large U.S. telecom companies (AT&amp;T, Verizon) are abusing their recently won market power.\u00a0 For instance, are wireless carriers locking up popular smart-phones by having exclusive agreements with handset makers?\u00a0 School of Law Professor <a title=\"Keith Hylton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/hylton_k.html\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Hylton<\/a>, an expert on antitrust law, can look at the possible ramifications.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Keith Hylton, 617-353-8959, <a href=\"mailto:knhylton@bu.edu\">knhylton@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department reportedly has launched a probe to see if large U.S. telecom companies (AT&amp;T, Verizon) are abusing their recently won market power.\u00a0 For instance, are wireless carriers locking up popular smart-phones by having exclusive agreements with handset makers?\u00a0 School of Law Professor Keith Hylton, an expert on antitrust law, can look at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[637,824,1177,1415,825],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}