Sprint Ups Bid for Clearwire to Outbid Dish Network, but Will It Be Enough?

The higher $3.40-per-share offer comes just ahead of a shareholder vote that clearly wasn’t going Sprint’s way.
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SoftBank Gives Sprint Permission to Dish to Dish

Sprint can now share non-public details of its business with Dish, which has made a rival bid for the No. 3 U.S. wireless provider.
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Tuesday’s Clearwire Vote a Key Moment for Sprint, but Won’t Settle Things

Sprint’s bid for Clearwire faces stiff opposition from key minority shareholders. Either way, Sprint finds itself the subject of competing bids from SoftBank and Dish Network.
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Sprint’s Clearwire Bid Gets Mixed Reviews

Proxy-advisory firms offered differing views of Sprint Nextel Corp.’s contested bid to take over Clearwire Corp., raising the uncertainty around the May 21 shareholder vote on the deal.

Un-Muddying the Waters: Making Sense of the Dish and SoftBank Dueling Offers for Sprint

Aiming to cut through the hype and spin, AllThingsD stacks the arguments up side by side and explains where things go from here.
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Clearwire’s Dissident Shareholder Mails Proxy, Taps Quinn Emanuel for Trial Duties

Crest Financial, Clearwire’s largest minority shareholder, is pulling out all the stops in opposing the company’s plan to sell itself to majority owner Sprint.
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Clearwire Shareholders to Press for Higher Buyout

The four shareholders intend to act as a group in discussions with Sprint as well as other interested parties, including Dish.

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Clearwire to Take $80 Million Funding Draw From Sprint

Clearwire Corp. will again tap financing from Sprint Nextel Corp. under their buyout deal, taking a $80 million draw for May that will be the last available before Clearwire shareholders vote on the deal.

FreedomPop Begins Shift to Sprint Network With 3G/4G Hotspot

FreedomPop plans to start offering the Overdrive Pro hotspot, which works on both WiMax and Sprint’s 3G network.

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Big Clearwire Holder Resists Sprint

Sprint Nextel Corp. is up to its neck in a merger fight, and it’s all about airwaves. But Sprint is waging another battle over a separate, lower-profile effort to buy the roughly 50 percent stake it doesn’t own in wireless-broadband operator Clearwire Corp.