from the looks of things, looks like Dish should just give up buying out Sprint, let the japanese have it. at least Dish don't have to worry about ticking off NASCAR who Sprint is the current sponsor of the series of NASCAR, the Sprint Cup. plus if Dish really wants to be a player in the cell phone/mobile internet data business, they need to buy smaller regional companies and as well as gobble up T-Mobile (who like Dish almost merge with a bigger company referred as "The Dark Side", but in T-Mobile's case they almost got bought out/merge with AT&T while Dish almost merge with DirecTV before the FCC said no.). they could just buy Clear without buying Sprint, but i rather they move on and give up on Sprint. try an alternative plan with smaller unknown cell phone companies or just give up with trying to launch a cell phone company and use the wireless spectrum they have no to expand their DishNet internet service to not needing satellites like they currently doing now. or better yet, sell the spectrum and refocus on one thing only, Satellite and work on deals with Disney to end the current dispute as as well as settle the lawsuits with the networks suing over the primetime anytime feature on the hopper whole home DVR system.
