Dish wants to buy Sprint for $25.5 billion
Last October, Sprint announced that Japanese mobile-phone giant SoftBank planned to acquire 70 percent of the Overland Park-based cellphone company. Today, satellite TV company Dish threw a wrench in things when it announced that it wants to buy Sprint for $25.5 billion.
Dish CEO Charles Ergen told The Wall Street Journal that if his company picks up the nation’s third-largest cell provider, his company could provide customers with video, high-speed Internet and voice service both at subscribers’ homes and away from home.
