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Sprint Gobbles Up Affiliate

Jul 11, 2005, 8:38 AM by (staff)

Sprint and US Unwired today announced an agreement for Sprint to acquire US Unwired for approximately $1.3 billion. US Unwired offers Sprint service to over 500,000 customers in nine southern states, including Texas, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. The acquisition is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2005. The deal will end a series of legal spats between the two companies. Most recently, the company sought an injunction to block Sprint's merger with Nextel, claiming the merger would violate the non-compete clause of the companies' affiliate contract, since Nextel operates in nine of US Unwired's 11 territories. In 2003, US Unwired took Sprint to court claiming unfair business practices. Of Sprint's nine remaining affiliates, Alamosa is the largest. Alamosa also has a non-compete agreement with Sprint that may be violated by the Nextel merger.

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nextel18

Jul 12, 2005, 6:27 PM

Ubiquitel Files Complaint Against Sprint, Nextel

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/business/article.adp?id=2 ... »

looks like perhaps another buyout.

RUFF1415

Too bad that link is only available to AOL members.

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nextel18

Jul 11, 2005, 10:24 AM

This was expected

this was expected becuase of the suits that US wired brought forth against sprint pcs. so therefore by eliminating those suits by buying them out it makes it possibly to do a smooth merger instead of problematic one.

bigdogyj

What do you think will happen with the other affiliates?

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Rathrok

Thank you, Captain Obvious..

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Rathrok

Jul 11, 2005, 8:48 AM

Well...

If you can't beat them, assimilate them! 🤣

QuickeSilver

We have Alamosa PCS here that operates Sprint hopefully hey get gobbled up the same way as US Unwired did because we have Nextel here as well.

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