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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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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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China Worries Arise in Sprint Deal

Spencer E. Ante, Danny Yadron and Thomas Gryta, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on March 28 at 5:30 am PT

The U.S. government is seeking oversight of network-equipment purchases as a condition for approving Softbank Corp.’s $20 billion acquisition of U.S. phone carrier Sprint Nextel Corp., a move that appears to be aimed at keeping out Chinese suppliers like Huawei Technologies Co., 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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Dish’s Clearwire Offer Lives On

Spencer E. Ante and Anupreeta Das, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on February 1 at 7:42 am PT

In a regulatory filing Friday, Clearwire said it opted not to tap financing made available by Sprint for February — a step that could have caused Dish to withdraw its proposal to buy Clearwire for $3.30 a share. Clearwire has agreed to sell itself to Sprint for $2.97 a share.

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Dish Asks FCC to Halt Sprint-Softbank Review Clock

Thomas Gryta, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on January 17 at 12:56 pm PT

Dish Network Corp. has asked the Federal Communications Commission to halt the regulatory-review “shot clock” for Softbank Corp.’s plans to buy a 70 percent stake in Sprint Nextel Corp. for $20 billion.