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Saying it believes the share price of Sprint is under valued, SoftBank Group announced a program of open market purchases of Sprint’s publicly traded shares.
Speaking on Sprint’s quarterly financial conference call last week, Masayoshi Son, Chairman & CEO of SBG and Chairman of Sprint, said he is enthusiastic about Sprint’s prospects.
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From the Graveyard
You just read about Sprint. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
Clearwire built WiMAX and wireless broadband network operator. What became of it?
Clearwire brought WiMAX and wireless broadband network operator to Telecom. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its acquisition by Sprint for US$5B. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside Sprint today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about All. A technology from the archive that helped get us here:
Google/Alphabet Project Loon served 2011–2021. What ultimately replaced it?
Google/Alphabet Project Loon solar-powered balloons drifting in the stratosphere (~20 km), steering by rising and falling into different wind layers, relaying LTE from ground stations to phones far below. Its job passed to Unit economics — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
