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At the company's peak it provided high speed Internet service for 4.1 million subscribers in the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, and the Benelux nations (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg). The company operated as four joint ventures, three of which were international. In 1999, the company acquired Excite.

Complete acquisition by Sprint Nextel On October 14, 2012, it was announced that Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank would purchase 70% of Sprint Nextel Corporation for $20.1 billion. This initially led to speculation that Sprint would buy out Clearwire, but "two well placed sources" within Sprint said that such a maneuver would not occur.

Charter Communications, Inc., is an American telecommunicationsand mass mediacompany with services branded as Charter Spectrum. With over 26 million customers in 41 states,[1]it is the second-largest cableoperator in the United States by subscribers, just behind Comcast, and third-largest pay TVoperator behind Comcast and AT&T.[6]

EarthLink is an American Internet service provider.. It went public on NASDAQ in January 1997. Much of the company's growth was via acquisition; by 2000, The New York Times described Earthlink as the "second largest Internet service provider after America Online."