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Dish Network tried to buy MetroPCS in August for $4 billion

0. phoneArena posted on 19 Nov 2012, 08:10

According to the Wall Street Journal, satellite television provider Dish Networks tried to buy MetroPCS in August for $4 billion, paying $11 in cash for 30% of the shares; Sprint also went after the nation's fifth largest carrier just before the deal with T-Mobile was announced last month...

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1. ChafedBanana posted on 19 Nov 2012, 08:49 1 2

Who really cares?

2. iWorld posted on 19 Nov 2012, 08:53 1 1

Charlie Egren..........

3. Bernoulli posted on 19 Nov 2012, 10:24 3

So who's fifth for real? In articles I've seen US cellular, but so then it's actually Metro pcs? I'm so confused :/

4. lsutigers posted on 19 Nov 2012, 19:25

Actually, by number of subs Clearwire is #5 with ~11 million but many of Clear's WiMAX subs are from the Sprint side. Metro has ~9.5 million subs and US Cellular ~6 million.

5. MC1123 posted on 19 Nov 2012, 23:13

so google will team up with dish wireless to make google wireless... but it dont have that much subscriber... and they're gonna tackle AT&T and Verizon?

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