Timeline: Dish Network vies with SoftBank to acquire Sprint

(Reuters) - Dish Network Corp, the No. 2 U.S. satellite television provider, has offered to buy Sprint Nextel Corp for $25.5 billion in cash and stock, a move that could thwart the proposed acquisition of Sprint by Japan's SoftBank Corp. The deal, if approved, might also resolve a struggle between Sprint and Dish for control of wireless provider Clearwire Corp. Below is a list of key dates since SoftBank's takeover bid in October: October 15, 2012 - SoftBank Corp, Japan's No. 3 mobile carrier, says it will buy about 70 percent of Sprint Nextel Corp for $20.1 billion. ...



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