DISH Ditches Sprint Bid to Focus on Clearwire Acquisition
DISH, which earlier this year offered to buy America’s third-largest wireless operator for more than $25 billion, said it will focus its efforts on buying Clearwire, the broadband provider.
DISH, which earlier this year offered to buy America’s third-largest wireless operator for more than $25 billion, said it will focus its efforts on buying Clearwire, the broadband provider.
Sprint says DISH "repeatedly attempted to fool Clearwire’s shareholders into believing its proposal was actionable in an effort to acquire Clearwires spectrum and to obstruct Sprints transaction with Clearwire."
DISH’s latest offer beats Sprint’s most recent bid by a whopping 30 percent. Is this an M&A game-changer?
Acquiring the rest of Clearwire and its spectrum would help Sprint expand its 4G LTE network services across the country.
LightCore, a wholly owned subsidiary of COMPTEL sponsor CenturyTel Inc., the seventh largest local exchange carrier in the United States, announced it has upgraded its fiber backbone, which runs more than 14,700 route miles across 17 states. The new backbone, lit with ROADM technology from Fujitsus FLASHWAVE 7500, was completed at the end of August. […]
While the rest of the wireless industry is focused on personalization, social networking and connected business collaboration, a small group of MVNOs are definitely not people persons and theyre proud of it. KORE Telematics, Aeris Communications and others are interested in machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, and no, it has nothing to do with the social life […]
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Intelisys Communications Inc. (Booth 214) announced the introduction of Audex, a new version of its telecom asset management solution. Audex’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution provides telecom agents a differentiator, increased customer retention, improved customer service capabilities and an additional revenue stream, said Intelisys. Its customer-facing design includes a new events ticketing system, a new customer-branding feature […]
WBS Connect (Booth 617), a Colorado-based IP transit wholesaler, announced it is preparing to offer boutique-style metro Ethernet packages through its affiliate WBS Direct. WBS Direct will offer 10mbps metro Ethernet connections, with scaling of bandwidth needs up to 100mbps, to more than 25,000 lit buildings in the United States. WBS Direct offers network consulting […]
TeleBright Corp. (Booth 519) continues to add new partners to its roster, including consultancy Association Resource Group (ARG). TeleBright said such deals are putting its ManageRight platform in front of more end users. ManageRight monitors and analyzes companies wireline and wireless spend. For example, the program alerts administrators when a user is about to go […]
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