$3.38 NOW.

Huh, the price is up at $3.14 today

Could be speculators assuming a competitive bid is imminent. Or a rumor of such going 'round.

Or, maybe Sprint really will bid against themselves.  :)

"Sprint has confirmed ....that it wants to buy the remaining 49 percent stake...for $2.90 a share."

"Clearwire's shares ....are up by more than 10.55 percent at $3.04 in pre-market trading Thursday"

???  Is someone else bidding?  Or do we thing Sprint will bid up the price against themselves (I suppose not out of the question...)?

Integration record has not so good with the Nextel buy but they've had such a symbiotic relationship with Clearwire for years now.

These guys are like hotel companies. At some point you just have to have more land to have any prayer of growing revenues. So it's not surprising that Sprint/Softbank wants to continue the land grab.

By the way, how is Sprint's track record for integrating companies?

I wonder how much Softbank is driving this?

Remember the Japanese provider already has its own TD-LTE network in the 2.6GHz band. So it knows network infrastructure and devices that are ripe for rollout on 4G LTE in Clearwire's band.

Sprint has seemed so focused on Network Vision up to now.