this leads us to tonight's word on the street, band witt, joe deaux with us with its street.com in new york. joe, if sprint is successful t gets all of clear water but what else does it get? >> what it really gets is clearwire's spectrum. in other words, the airwaves that telecom service wants to have to have most of their cell-phone users be able to talk to one another. they want national coverage. and if they get all of clearwire they're going to have a broader coverage area for those who are subscribed to. >> this increases the technological band width of sprint to compete getter against verizon wireless and at&t wireless but considering the next tell debacle does sprint have the corporate bandwidth to integrate this and get the deal done? >> the analysts i have spoken to said this won't be like nextel. because the biggest clearwire subscribers are actually already with sprint. whereas n, xtel was a massive company and these analysts are saying back in 2004, they just didn't appreciate what they had to merge, with the number of people that were at nextel with the number of people th