Sprint, we didn’t know you were such a player on the dating scene. While the company is asking for the Federal Communications Commission to keep working on its official review of a $20.1 billion SoftBank deal, it’s also openly flirting with its other suitor, Dish Network. That’s what we call playing the field, folks. Wonder if it’ll go on two dates in the same night? [More]
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SoftBank Says It, And Not Dish, Deserves The Final Rose From Bachelor Sprint
By 4.16.13
While it has looked for months like Sprint and Japanese telecom titan SoftBank only had eyes for each other and were mere months away from wedded bliss, that pesky Charlie Ergen at Dish decided to come on strong, making his own $25.5 billion case yesterday for why Sprint and his company should elope. Not wanting to be the one left jilted at the final rose ceremony, SoftBank is firing back. [More]
Dish Network Throws $25.5 Billion On The Table In Bid For Sprint Nextel
By 4.15.13
It’s been about six months since Japanese Wireless company SoftBank said it’d pay a handsome price to buy control of Sprint. And in yet another example of how a much-buzzed about hookup sometimes fails to get to the completion stage, there’s another company suddenly in the running to woo Sprint — the pay-TV giant, Dish Network. [More]
Sprint Scoops Up U.S. Cellular’s Midwestern Airwaves & Its Customers, Too
By 11.7.12
Sprint already explained that even though it’s in third place among U.S. wireless carriers, it meant to get ditched by about 459,000 of its customers in order to move its network from 2G to LTE. And now it’s gained a significant chunk of new customers by buying up a bunch of spectrum and customers from U.S. cellular in a new deal the company just announced. [More]
Sprint CEO On Losing 459,000 Customers: We Meant To Do That
By 10.25.12
The recently announced quarterly numbers from Sprint are not good, with the company losing some 459,000 contract customers at time when many of its competitors are picking up new users. But Sprint’s ever-rosy CEO Dan Hesse wants everyone to put away their mourning garb because this was all part of the company’s grand plan. [More]
What Sprint’s New Ownership Could Mean For Consumers
By 10.16.12
As you’ve probably heard, Japanese wireless company SoftBank is set to snap up majority control of Sprint at some point next year. There has been lots of talk about what this means for Sprint as a business, but little of what it means for Sprint’s more than 50 million customers. [More]
