[At-Large] Softbank to buy Sprint Nextel

John R. Levine johnl at iecc.com
Wed Oct 17 14:56:50 UTC 2012


> ..A Japanese company to buy 70% of the 3rd(?) largest mobile service
> provider in US market.
>
> Hmmm, wonder what the pushback will be here....and, from whence will it
> come?

Probably not much.  Sprint is much smaller and weaker than its two larger 
competitors, and Softbank has no other telecom operations in the US.

What does this have to do with the ALAC or ICANN?

R's,
John



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