History isn’t going to judge Dan Hesse’s tenure kindly, but many of the problems Hesse faced weren’t of his own making. And instead of fixing Sprint’s cultural flaws when he took… Read more »
In its FCC filings, AT&T says it will connect 13 million additional homes to a tolerable broadband connection with new wireless local loop technologies. It’s failed at this in the past,… Read more »
Sprint has been promising a monster of a 4G network for years, but it’s failed to deliver. CEO Dan Hesse says that Sprint still maintains its mobile broadband ambitions, it’s just… 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 »
Sprint-SoftBank is home free. With a 98 percent shareholder vote in its favor, Sprint now faces only the FCC’s public interest review. That should be a piece of cake. Read more »
The battle over Clearwire is getting more intense. Sprint has outbid Dish, and the Clearwire board is once again backing Sprint’s takeover attempt. Now the ball’s in Dish’s court. 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 »
Dish maintains that it’s offer for Clearwire is fair and legal, and Sprint’s attempt to block it in the courts is just an attempt to divert attention away from its own… Read more »
Clearwire resisted Dish’s advances for five months, but it has finally given in. Clearwire’s board recommended today that shareholders give Sprint the old heave-ho and back Dish’s offer to assume a… Read more »
If Sprint’s shareholder vote doesn’t go its way on Wednesday, SoftBank has another option for entering the U.S. mobile market. According to Reuters, SoftBank is considering T-Mobile US as a plan… Read more »