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Sprint’s Clearwire Bid Gets Mixed Reviews

Thomas Gryta, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on May 10 at 9:55 am PT

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.

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SoftBank CEO Takes Offensive on Sprint Deal

Mayumi Negishi, Daisuke Wakabayashi and Shalini Ramachandran, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on April 30 at 9:46 am PT

SoftBank Corp. Chief Executive Masayoshi Son launched a blistering attack on Dish Network Corp.’s competing bid for Sprint Nextel Corp., saying it would load the U.S. carrier with debt and delay its turnaround without providing any telecommunications expertise.

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Clearwire to Take $80 Million Funding Draw From Sprint

Thomas Gryta, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on April 29 at 12:48 pm PT

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.

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Big Clearwire Holder Resists Sprint

Anupreeta Das, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on April 22 at 9:30 am PT

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.

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Sprint Committee to Evaluate Dish Offer

Sharon Terlep and Spencer E. Ante, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on April 18 at 11:32 am PT

The board of Sprint Nextel Corp. has set up a special committee to evaluate Dish Network Corp.’s $25.5 billion bid to acquire the carrier, people familiar with the matter said.

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Big Sprint Investor Favors Dish Network’s Bid

Thomas Gryta, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on April 16 at 2:43 pm PT

Dish Network Corp.’s $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel Corp. offers more value to shareholders than the wireless company’s original deal with Japan’s Softbank Corp., Sprint investor Paulson & Co. said Tuesday.

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Verizon Wireless Pursues Clearwire Spectrum

Sharon Terlep, Dana Cimilluca and Spencer E. Ante, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on April 15 at 9:18 am PT

Verizon Wireless has offered to pay up to $1.5 billion to buy spectrum leases from Clearwire Corp., people familiar with the matter said.

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Sprint Posts Wider Loss

Thomas Gryta, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on February 7 at 10:54 am PT

Sprint Nextel Corp.’s fourth-quarter loss widened and customer losses continued amid the continuing shutdown of its older Nextel network, as the company aims to turn around its business to compete with larger wireless rivals.

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In Clearwire Gambit, Spectrum Is the Prize

Anton Troianovski, Shalini Ramachandran and Anupreeta Das, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 10 at 7:30 am PT

Charlie Ergen, chairman of Dish Network Corp., is in a familiar position: He can win even by losing.

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Sprint Bids for Rest of Clearwire

Thomas Gryta, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on December 13, 2012 at 10:20 am PT

Sprint Nextel Corp. offered to acquire the 49% of Clearwire Corp. it doesn’t already own for $2.90 a share, confirming that the carrier is moving to consolidate a long-time partner that is key to its future strategy.