{"id":652479,"date":"2013-04-15T14:40:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T18:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=439191"},"modified":"2013-04-15T14:40:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T18:40:34","slug":"verizon-reportedly-offering-1-5-billion-to-lease-clearwires-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652479","title":{"rendered":"Verizon reportedly offering $1.5 billion to lease Clearwire\u2019s spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/15\/verizon-clearwire-spectrum-lease-439191\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/verizon-store.png?w=600&amp;h=350&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Verizon reportedly offering $1.5 billion to use Clearwire&#039;s spectrum\" title=\"Verizon\" \/><\/a><\/center>Clearwire disclosed in a securities filing on Friday that it had received an offer from an unnamed company for use of its spectrum.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324345804578424514105025922.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">According to\u00a0<em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/verizon\">Verizon<\/a> is behind the proposed deal and has offered $1.5 billion to lease <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/clearwire\">Clearwire&#8217;s<\/a> spectrum.\u00a0Verizon is said to be interested in Clearwire spectrum in big markets to help it bolster its 4G LTE service. The carrier is expected to face a few obstacles, however. Wireless rival\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/sprint\">Sprint<\/a>\u00a0has a\u00a0controlling stake in Clearwire and recently\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/12\/13\/sprint-offers-2-1-billion-in-clearwire-takeover-bid\/\">proposed a takeover of the company<\/a>, while at the same time Sprint is in the middle of dealing with its own merger offers from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/10\/12\/softbank-sprint-acquisition-analysis\/\">Japanese\u00a0carrier SoftBank<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/15\/dish-sprint-acquisition-bid-438774\/\">from Dish Network<\/a>.\u00a0Clearwire, Sprint and Verizon, nevertheless, will come together to evaluate the offer and discuss it in further detail.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/kn8QRXG9lzc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clearwire disclosed in a securities filing on Friday that it had received an offer from an unnamed company for use of its spectrum.\u00a0According to\u00a0The Wall Street Journal,\u00a0Verizon is behind the proposed deal and has offered $1.5 billion to lease Clearwire&#8217;s spectrum.\u00a0Verizon is said to be interested in Clearwire spectrum in big markets to help it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}