It's a risk Softbank appears to be willing to take in pursuit of growth Softbank cannot find in its home market.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Many Telcos are Delveraging, Softbank Will Have to Load Up on Debt to Buy Sprint
Most leading telcos in Western Europe now are attempting to delverage and clean up balance sheets. But Softbank, which had debt load issues of its own, and cleaned them up, now faces the possibility of taking on a bigger debt load again to buy Sprint and control Clearwire.
It's a risk Softbank appears to be willing to take in pursuit of growth Softbank cannot find in its home market.
It's a risk Softbank appears to be willing to take in pursuit of growth Softbank cannot find in its home market.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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