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Filed under: Sprint , Misc We're relieved, here's why: we don't have to report on this on-again / off-again relationship like we're a celebrity tabloid rag anymore. Around the same time it gave the thumbs up to Verizon and Alltel, the FCC also decided that timultuous lovebirds Sprint and Clearwire can finally get hitched. Their eventual offspring will be the WiMAX network they've been promising with a bunch of other partners -- the plan is to offer wireless broadband to 140 million people within 30 months' time, so today's a big day for WiMAX and corporate romantics everywhere. Sprint, Clearwire to finally get hitched thanks to FCC approval originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Despite the current economic storms plaguing the U.S., Verizon Wireless won’t be calling its $28.1 billion buyout deal with Alltel a no-go. In fact, the company says the deal is still on track for a close before the year ends. Only time will tell what exactly Verizon will get from Alltel with this massive buyout, but [...]

Samsung finally gave up on four months of unsuccessful negotiations with SanDisk, and has offered to buy the company for $5.8 billion in cash or $26 per share. Apparently, the two electronics companies have been in talks with each other for four months, and SanDisk refuses to agree on a deal with Samsung. Samsung says it [...]

T-mobile USA has launched T-Mobile brand and service in the former SunCom markets throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The acquisition, for an aggregate of approximately $2.4 billion in cash and assumed debt, was announced in September 2007 and completed in February 2008. With the changeover, all [...]

Sprint-Nextel may have caught the eye of SK Telecom, who has begun preliminary talks to form a partnership with them to develop new phones and services. The Wall Street Journal reported the possible partnership as being more likely a minority investment rather than a complete merger. However this is not the first time the two companies have [...]

Eager to fill up the catalog of software in their Play Now Arena and Fun&Downloads service, Sony Ericsson has chosen premium mobile games developer and publisher GlobalFun as one of its main official content acquisition partners. Sony Ericsson and GlobalFun have been dealing with each other for about 5 years now, and now with this content [...]