Japan's Softbank Buying Sprint, Creating Third-Largest Global Carrier 59
New submitter metallurge writes "Japan's third-largest wireless carrier intends to acquire Sprint, the third-largest U.S. carrier for 20.1 billion U.S. dollars, creating the third-largest global carrier. After the transaction is completed, Softbank will own 70% of the newly-created 'New Sprint,' which will maintain current Sprint CEO Dan Hesse in that role. How this will affect Deutsche Telekom/T-Mobile's attempt to merge with Sprint reseller MetroPCS is unclear."
Explains my crappy signal strength (Score:5, Funny)
Sprint has apparently already moved it's towers to Japan
Gleat (Score:1, Funny)
Now I have to get used to calling it Splint.
Who are we? (Score:5, Funny)
"Japan's third-largest wireless carrier intends to acquire Sprint, the third-largest U.S. carrier for 20.1 Billion U.S. dollars, creating the third-largest global carrier. ..."
We're number three! We're number three!