A judge has dismissed claims by two companies in a case trying to block the joint venture it was forming with Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) to roll-out a nationwide broadband company. In May, iPCS, a Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel affiliate operating in Schaumburg, Ill., filed a lawsuit against its parent company, alleging the new Clearwire service would violate an exclusivity agreement signed with Sprint in 1999. Clearwire and Sprint Nextel have agreed to a $14.5 billion merger of its wireless broadband business. Yesterday, a Delaware judge removed two iPCS subsidiaries – Horizon PCS and Bright PCS – from the claims because the Delaware court said it had no jurisdiction over the Ohio-based companies. iPCS filed a document with the SEC regarding the judge’s ruling, and issued this statement: “The company is pleased that the court has ‘dismiss[ed] all claims against Horizon and Bright- based on this court
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