Dish Network has offered to buy Clearwire for US$3.30 per share, throwing a wrench in Sprint Nextel's deal to buy its mobile broadband partner for $2.97 per share. Clearwire disclosed Dish's offer in a press release on Tuesday afternoon, ...
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IDG News Service - Japan's Softbank, which is in negotiations to make a major investment in U.S. operator Sprint Nextel, is also mulling a competitive bid for MetroPCS, Japanese media reported Friday. The reports from sources such as the ...
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IDG News Service-If Japan's Softbank barges its way into the U.S.mobile market,expect contract prices to fall. The company,mostly unknown outside of Japan,is in negotiations to acquire a large chunk in U.S.operator Sprint Nextel,and ...
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IDG News Service - Japan's Softbank said Monday it has reached a deal to acquire a 70% stake in U.S. mobile operator Sprint Nextel for $20 billion, forming one of the world's largest telecom operators. The companies said the deal would ...
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Sprint Nextel is in negotiations to acquire the remainder of Clearwire, its 4G WiMax network partner, say news reports. Sprint owns about 51 percent of Clearwire's stock and is the main wholesale customer of its national WiMax network. ...
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Japan's high solar subsidy has attracted many Japan-based firms to enter the market. In addition, international firms have been hoping to enter the market as well. However, Japan has certain entry barriers as citizens often prefer to use ...
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Sprint Nextel has increased it ownership in Clearwire and now has a 50.8% stake in the company, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The news comes after Japanese operator Softbank announced on Monday a $20 ...
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Showing that it's serious about quickly phasing out its venerable iDEN network and traditional push-to-talk service, Sprint Nextel now plans to charge all subscribers on that system an extra $10 per month beginning Jan. 1. Sprint has ...
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Oracle said Monday it has inked a deal to buy software-defined networking vendor Xsigo Systems, in a move that will support Oracle's ongoing foray into cloud computing. Terms of the acquisition, which is expected to close within a few ...
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IDG News Service - Softbank Mobile said Wednesday it will launch a new mobile router next week providing download speeds of up to 110Mbps on its LTE network. The Japanese company said the modem, made by Huawei Technologies, will also ...
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In 2001, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Japan's dominant telecom provider, got a shock. It had just started DSL broadband Internet service and was taking its first steps toward reaping the benefits of an ambitious and costly plan to string ...
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Sprint confirmed Thursday it is negotiating with Japan's third-largest wireless carrier Softbank regarding a "potential substantial investment by Softbank in Sprint." Earlier reports from the Japanese business press said the investment ...
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Softbank will soon offer a new satellite phone for use in earthquakes and other natural disasters. The Japanese carrier said Monday it has teamed with Thuraya, a Dubai-based provider of satellite operator services and phones, to offer ...
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After starting amid the smoldering ruins of AT&T and T-Mobile USA's failed merger,2012 ended as a big year for mobile carrier deals in the U.S.,and possibly a final changing of the guard for a long time. If all the reshuffling that ...
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Japan's Softbank, the country's third-largest carrier, is in negotiations to acquire U.S. mobile operator Sprint in a deal worth over $30 billion, the Japanese business newspaper Nikkei reported Thursday. The deal, in which Softbank would ...
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