Dish Bid for Clearwire Complicates Telecom Deal Dance
Dish Network Corp.’s last-minute bid for Clearwire Corp. complicates an already dizzying set of telecom deals and creates a variety of scenarios that are sending stocks in varying directions.
After the fourth bid in the battle for Clearwire, a mobile broadband provider that is majority owned by Sprint Nextel Corp., investors in the involved companies are weighing how all the offers could play out as the wireless industry consolidates.