Sure, you can look at Hope Cochran‘s LinkedIn page and follow her path through Stanford University degrees in economics and music, tracing her professional journey through successful startups, multiple gigs… Read More
Sprint is giving its WiMax customers slightly more than a year to upgrade their phones and wireless modems running on the once promising high-speed network technology. Customers are expected to receive letters in… Read More
Former Clearwire CEO Erik Prusch appears to be assembling the old band together at NetMotion Wireless. Six months after joining the Seattle-based mobile productivity company, Prusch has hired Jim Ryder… Read More
Does it take forever to load a webpage, or do you find that watching Netflix can be a painful experience? If your answer is “yes,” you aren’t alone. The vast majority of… Read More
Sprint continues to trim staff in the Seattle area following last year’s acquisition of Clearwire, the Bellevue broadband wireless operator started by telecommunications pioneer Craig McCaw. Sprint, the third largest… Read More
Sprint worked hard to acquire Bellevue-based Clearwire, increasing its bid several times in a rivalry with Dish Network. Eventually, after months of back and forth, Sprint won the bidding war in… Read More
Now that Clearwire is officially fading into the history books and execs are already leaving, it will be interesting to see if the Bellevue company spawns a wave of entrepreneurial… Read More
Now that Sprint has finally gobbled up Clearwire, we’ll have to wait to see what the country’s third largest carrier plans to do with the assets. This much we do… Read More
After more than six months of back and forth, Clearwire is officially a part of Sprint. Sprint closed its acquisition of Clearwire today, paying $5 per share, up from the… Read More
Finally, the Clearwire/Sprint roller-coaster is coming to a stop. After six months of back and forth, shareholders from Bellevue-based Clearwire today made it official when they approved Sprint’s $5 per… Read More
The U.S. wireless industry is one step closer to being reshaped. The Federal Communications Commission today unanimously approved Sprint’s transactions with SoftBank and Clearwire, deals which could alter the landscape… Read More
After a long and drawn out bidding war, Clearwire’s fate appears to be nearly certain. The Federal Communications Commission is set to approval Sprint’s purchase of the Bellevue mobile broadband company,… Read More
Sprint may end up victorious in the bidding war for Clearwire, as Dish Network today withdrew its offer to purchase the Bellevue mobile broadband company. This comes after Sprint jacked up… Read More
Sprint seems to have gained the upper hand today in the ongoing tug-of-war over Clearwire after submitting a bid to purchase it at $5 per share. A little more than… Read More
Well, nearly everyone saw this coming. Sprint has turned to the courts to try to stop Dish Network’s purchase of Clearwire, the Bellevue-broadband wireless company that’s highly coveted for its… Read More
The Clearwire saga continues. And the latest development came Wednesday afternoon as Clearwire’s board of directors recommended that shareholders accept Dish Network’s $4.40 per share offer instead of Sprint’s $3.40… Read More
Well, the rhetoric keeps rising as Sprint and Dish Network battle for Clearwire, the Bellevue-based provider of mobile broadband service. Following Dish’s upped bid last week, Sprint sent a letter… Read More
Bellevue-based Clearwire is delaying its vote on Sprint’s takeover offer to give the company extra time to discuss Dish Network’s new proposal. The vote, originally scheduled for Friday, has been pushed… Read More
The bidding war continues. Dish Network has boosted its offer for Bellevue-based Clearwire, just two days before shareholders were set to vote on a competing proposal by Sprint. The latest offer… Read More
The ongoing saga of Clearwire has taken yet another turn as the independent shareholder firm Glass Lewis & Co. has recommended that minority shareholders in the Bellevue broadband wireless company… Read More
Clearwire Chairman John Stanton is back again today urging shareholders to vote for Sprint’s $3.40 per share offer, a deal which represents a 14 percent premium over the previous $2.97… Read More
Sprint is boosting its bid for Bellevue mobile broadband company Clearwire to $3.40 per share, an increase of about 50 percent over the previous offer. As a result of the… Read More
Bellevue-based Clearwire is running out of options, and its best opportunity to receive any value for the company is Sprint’s $2.2 billion offer. That’s the word from the Clearwire board,… Read More
It’s been a long and winding road for Clearwire, the Bellevue mobile broadband company which has been weighing competing offers from Sprint and Dish Network. But after months of deliberation,… Read More
Two weeks after Dish Network jumped into the bidding for Sprint with a $25.5 billion offer, the wireless carrier has formed a special committee and received a waiver from SoftBank… Read More
Clearwire has agreed to take an $80 million payment from Sprint Nextel in April, possibly pushing the Bellevue-based company closer into the hands of its majority shareholder. The decision follows… Read More
As it continues to weigh buyout offers, Clearwire has elected to take an $80 million investment from Sprint, a move that could impede the acquisition of satellite TV provider Dish… Read More
A study that one Clearwire shareholder commissioned shows that the company’s spectrum is worth two to three times more than what Sprint is currently offering in its bid to acquire Bellevue-based… Read More
It’s safe to say that Clearwire, the Bellevue-based mobile broadband company, is going through a transformative period as two rival bids (one from Sprint and other from Dish Network) remain… Read More
Clearwire said today that it will continue to entertain a buyout offer from Dish Network even though Sprint Nextel dubbed the rival bid from the satellite TV operator “illusory” and… Read More