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Dish drops Sprint bid to focus on Clearwire

article published on 18 June, 2013

Dish Network has announced today that they will not be making new bids for Sprint, instead choosing to focus on 4G spectrum company Clearwire. The news should be a relief for Japanese carrier SoftBank, who had to up their original bid as Dish tried to counter. SoftBank bid $21.6 billion for a 78 percent share of the company. Although the company says it "continues to see strategic ... [ read the full article ]

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jerryf01
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_ 		21. June 2013 @ 07:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If Sprint owns 50.xx% of Clearwire, why is Dish bidding? 50.XX controls the board so why try to jack up the price or whatever.
I have no interest either way and don't care who get's control, just wonder how Dish is going to get control when Sprint has more than 50% ownership.
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