{"id":659310,"date":"2013-05-21T10:55:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=571657"},"modified":"2013-05-21T10:55:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:55:36","slug":"sprint-looks-to-snap-up-clearwire-with-more-appealing-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/659310","title":{"rendered":"Sprint looks to snap up Clearwire with more appealing offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/21\/sprint-clearwire-buyout-offer-increased\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/sprint-sign-3987.jpeg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sprint Clearwire Buyout Offer \" title=\"Sprint Clearwire Buyout Offer \" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Sprint on Tuesday announced a revised offer for wireless broadband wholesaler <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/clearwire\">Clearwire<\/a>. The carrier <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/12\/17\/sprint-clearwire-acquisition-2012\/\">is looking to acquire the remaining Clearwire shares<\/a>\u00a0it does not already own for $2.97 per share, or $2.2 billion, valuing the company at $10 billion. <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/sprint\">Sprint<\/a> has now increased its bid $3.40 per share, upping Clearwire&#8217;s value to $10.7 billion. The revised offer represents a 14% premium over the company&#8217;s earlier bid and a 162% premium over Clearwire&#8217;s closing share price in October when it was rumored to be part of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/10\/15\/softbank-sprint-acquisition-details-20-billion-dollars\/\">the Sprint-SoftBank merger discussions<\/a>. Sprint notes that the offer is the best and final offer it will propose. The company&#8217;s press release follows below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/21\/sprint-clearwire-buyout-offer-increased\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/x77g0KdEHhE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sprint on Tuesday announced a revised offer for wireless broadband wholesaler Clearwire. The carrier is looking to acquire the remaining Clearwire shares\u00a0it does not already own for $2.97 per share, or $2.2 billion, valuing the company at $10 billion. Sprint has now increased its bid $3.40 per share, upping Clearwire&#8217;s value to $10.7 billion. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659310","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=659310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}