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Sprint Puts Admiral On Board to Oversee Security

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michael_herc

Jun 7, 2013, 8:57 PM
So the government doesn't care about Germany's involvement with T-Mobile or Britain's involvement with Verizon, but it chooses to care about Japan's involvement with Sprint? Odd......
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marufio

Jun 7, 2013, 11:40 PM
This whole thing makes no sense for anyone and we have Sprint to blame for this. The government acts as if China is buying Sprint.
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Versed

Jun 8, 2013, 1:42 AM
To be fair the government didn't ask for board seat, it was Softbank/Sprint who offered it.
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cellphonesaretools

Jun 12, 2013, 12:05 AM
I think it is not just the Softbank deal, recall that a short time ago the US Gov't was looking into those two Chinese companies supplying the switch gear for Sprint's Network Vision upgrades.

I think the combination of those two potentially threatening security issues prompted Sprint to add the admiral to the board, to placate the hard-core foot-draggers in Congress so as to help speed through the approval process whichever deal Sprint takes WRT being acquired/controlled by Dish/Softbank.
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