Court allowing iPCS to proceed with fight against Sprint's Clearwire deal

by Chris Ziegler May 5th 2009 @ 7:36AM

Sprint affiliate iPCS' post-Nextel merger beef with the carrier goes beyond the Nextel market issue; they've also been making noise over the deal that has married Sprint's WiMAX efforts with Clearwire's, claiming that it's sharing awesome technology and other "benefits" with Clearwire that it also has a legal obligation to share with its affiliates. To that end, the Illinois-based company has scored another court win that allows its WiMAX-related lawsuit to proceed, though not without also dropping a claim to collect "undetermined" damages against Sprint that the judge determined iPCS was not entitled to collect under the terms of its agreement. Like the endless Nokia / Qualcomm and Broadcom / Qualcomm legal dramas, this is shaping up to be one for the ages -- so sit back, relax, get your popcorn ready, and make sure you've got a full legal reference at your side.

[Via Phone Scoop]

Filed under: Sprint, WiMAX

Tags: clearwire, court, ipcs, lawsuit, ruling, sprint, wimax

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backbeat @ May 5th 2009 9:21AM

iPCS is the reason behind the abandonment of IDEN in thier markets and now they want to stop 4g too, this is annoying for me I know it's driving the bosses at Sprint batty

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chris @ May 5th 2009 3:31PM

Why worry? Sprint is just going to bankrupt anyways... leave them alone.

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