The mobile industry saw some important consolidation unfold in the second quarter as the lesser tier-one carriers made some strong alliances: Sprint agreed to be acquired by Japan’s SoftBank and began… Read more »
The final tally was 82 percent in favor of being subsumed by Sprint and SoftBank. The three-way deal should be wrapped up and final by Wednesday, July 10. Read more »
If Clearwire shareholders give the thumbs up on Monday, Sprint and SoftBank are home free. They could have this merger wrapped up in a matter of a weeks. Read more »
Dish Network last week gave up on trying to acquire Sprint, and its prospects for buying Clearwire don’t look good. But T-Mobile now has the iPhone, and as it prepares to… Read more »
To close the deal, Sprint just needs a shareholder okay and the FCC to complete its review. The question, though, is whether SoftBank’s interest in Sprint is waning now that Dish… Read more »
Sprint-SoftBank clears a big regulatory hurdle, but according to the WSJ, there are numerous national security strings attached, including a ban on Huawei gear from Sprint’s network. Read more »
FreedomPop is tapping into Sprint’s CDMA network to expand its footprint beyond Clearwire’s 80-city footprint. The new 3G service is just a prelude to FreedomPop’s planned support for LTE later this… Read more »
Softbank certainly has the money to counter Dish’s offer, but Dish has much more to offer than cash, namely valuable spectrum and a huge TV network. Read more »
According to a regulatory filing, Sprint entertained four possible M&A deals in the last two years apart from Softbank. Dish and MetroPCS are obvious candidates, and the other two could have… Read more »
Google is launching yet another mysterious wireless experiment, this time using small cells at its HQ. Taking all of Google’s wireless projects together, a new kind of mobile architecture might be… Read more »