Article: United States : Clearwire Reaches Deal to Raise $1.56 Billion.

Byline: Mamta03

Clearwire Corp. reached an agreement to raise $1.56 billion by selling new shares to several companies so it can continue the expansion of its high-speed, fourth-generation wireless network.

The company will sell shares at $7.33 apiece to Sprint Nextel Corp., Comcast Corp., Time Warner Cable Inc., Intel Corp., Eagle River Holdings LLC and Bright House Networks LLC. All are current Clearwire investors. Clearwire shares closed at $6.80 on Monday.

Sprint is Clearwire's majority shareholder and will buy the bulk of the new shares, contributing $1.18 billion. Sprint has bet heavily on Clearwire to provide 4G services, which Sprint has ...

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