IPCS sues Sprint over proposed Clearwire deal

May 13th, 2008

Sprint reported a little while ago that they are officially joining into the Clearwire WiMax venture. In fact, I actually wrote about it.  The bloggers at Google wrote about the partnership a couple days ago too.

However, IPCS Inc, an affiliate of Sprint Nextel Corp, said yesterday that “three of its subsidiaries have sued Sprint over its plans to create a venture with Clearwire Corp.”

And what is IPCS? “IPCS, which sells wireless services under the Sprint brand with coverage for a potential 12 million customers in states such as Illinois and Iowa, said it has the exclusive right to sell services under the Sprint brand in 81 markets.” (For the whole article, you can read it on Reuter.)

From what I read from various places, analysts have already predicted that some problems will arise from this Clearwire pact between all these big companies.  Seems like that’s already beginning.

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