Posted on 04/15/2013 5:03:45 AM PDT by Zakeet
Satellite TV provider Dish Network on Monday announced a $25.5 billion cash-and-stock bid for mobile phone company Sprint Nextel.
The apparently unsolicited offer is an attempt to top the $20.1 billion agreement for a 70% stake in Sprint by Japanese tech company Softbank (SFTBF) in October. That deal was widely seen as giving Sprint a much needed cash infusion, one that staved off a possible bankruptcy filing that many investors feared.
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could only be an improvement
Can’t make their service worse.
I’ve got Dish Network for TV and like the service pretty good. It can only improve Sprint.
I don't know. They take the spotty coverage of Sprint and then add in Dish's crappy business plans so now you have spotty coverage with service that doesn't work in the rain and blocks whole area codes from being called.
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