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...By 2012 it had landed a role on SoftBank’s $20.1bn acquisition of telco Sprint Nextel....
...It was seen to be outpaced by its local rival, SoftBank, which had made bolder strides overseas, most notably with the acquisition of Sprint Nextel in the US....
...In 2013 he launched a bid to take wireless carrier Sprint Nextel private for more than $25bn, but Dish ultimately pulled out after a bidding war with SoftBank....
...So great are American concerns that when Japan’s SoftBank bought Sprint Nextel in 2013, it had to pledge not to use equipment made by the employee-owned Chinese company and rip out Huawei kit used by Clearwire...
...Nextel (US) — $22bn (77%) • 2013 Brightstar (US) — $1.1bn (57%*) • 2013 Supercell (Finland) — $1.5bn (51%**) • 2014 Snapdeal (India) — $627m (undisclosed**) • 2015 Coupang (S Korea) — $1bn (undisclosed...
...An experienced in-house telecoms lawyer, he has served at Siemens mobile wireless division, Sprint Nextel Corporation and Clearwire....
...Earlier this year, it bought two Mexican telecoms groups, Iusacell and Nextel, for roughly $4.5bn and said it would spend a further $3bn by the end of 2018 to improve their networks....
...Mr Legere said the agreements had allowed his company to steal a march on AT&T, which recently gained a foothold in the Mexican market by spending $4.3bn acquiring two of the smaller providers, Nextel and...
...“We certainly have our work cut out,” Thaddeus Arroyo, AT&T’s Mexico chief executive, told the Financial Times, a week after regulators approved the company’s $1.9bn acquisition of Nextel....
...Earlier this week, it said it would buy Nextel Mexico for $1.9bn, less outstanding net debt, its second big Mexican deal in three months....
...This could potentially include Nextel, analysts said. The company has high revenue per user and good spectrum blocks, said Mr Tomassi....
...Iliad, the French telecoms group, has made a surprise bid for control of T-Mobile US that values the third-largest US carrier at $29.5bn and upends expectations that it would sell to rival Sprint Nextel....
...During his eight years at the company, it evolved from one of the first US prepaid cell phone providers into a public company that was acquired by Sprint Nextel in 2009 for $688m....
...its Nextel network....
...Nextel Q1 n/a (n/a) Statoil Q1 NKr3.81 (NKr3.77) Twitter Q1 -$0.03 (n/a) Volkswagen Q1 n/a (€4.24) Trading and sales updates Hermès International, Thales ● Nomura Holdings had an exceptional 2013...
...SoftBank, Masayoshi Son’s acquisitive telecoms group and the majority owner of North American mobile provider Sprint Nextel, has fallen 2.8 per cent....
...Third Point also confirmed on Friday that it took new stakes in the fourth quarter of last year in Dow Chemical, where it wants a break-up of the company, and T-Mobile, which it wants sold to Sprint Nextel...
...Sprint also continued to post losses on the defunct Nextel business after shutting down the network at the end of the second quarter....
...Sprint Nextel and Dish Network, the US satellite TV operator, plan to build an experimental fixed wireless broadband network in Texas that will launch by the middle of next year and will then be expanded...
...Recall Sprint’s 2006 merger with Nextel, a disaster that opened the door for SoftBank. The challenges for a Charter/TWC tie-up are more financial than operational....
...The higher losses mostly reflect costs associated with the shutdown of its Nextel network. “This is a historic time for Sprint....
...Nextel....
...T-Mobile needed this network to compete more effectively with its larger rivals, Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility and Sprint Nextel, which is now majority owned by Japan’s SoftBank....
...Sprint, which is holding prices, is bleeding customers badly, even though the shutdown of its obsolete Nextel network finished last quarter....
...In an SEC filing yesterday morning, Dish said that it had decided to “abandon its efforts to acquire Sprint Nextel Corporation”....
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