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Dish Offers $25.5 Billion for Sprint

Satellite TV company tops Softbanks bid for the wireless carrier.

By Ville Heiskanen, Bloomberg | Updated on April 15, 2013

Dish Network Corp., the satellite-TV company controlled by Charlie Ergen, made an unsolicited $25.5 billion offer for Sprint Nextel Corp., topping a Softbank Corp. bid for the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier.

Sprint investors would get $7 a share, including $4.76 in cash, a stake representing about 32 percent of the combined company, Englewood, Colorado-based Dish said today. While the offer is 13 percent above Sprint’s April 12 closing price, the stock climbed above $7 in New York trading today, suggesting that investors expect the bidding to go higher.

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