Sprint Nextel Corp.will gain control of Clearwire Corp. without an acquisition, Wall Street Journal reports. Apparently, Sprint will simply buy stakes held by selling shareholders Intel and Comcast. By doing so, Sprint which already owns a 48 percent stake, will gain control of Clearwire without having to acquire all of the company.
You might say that ends any immediate speculation about any potential Clearwire acquisition with a whimper, not a bang. The move will make sense for observers who assumed Softbank would want clear control of Clearwire as part of its purchase of 70 percent of Sprint.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Sprint to Take Control of Clearwire
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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