This arrangement is designed to help Sprint consolidate its cell sites and install common equipment that will enable operations on its three different portions of spectrum with a common cell site radio system.

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Since 2008, Spangenberg and his company TQP have launched suits against hundreds of firms, claiming that their use of a common cryptographic protocol in the HTTPS-encrypted portions of their web properties violates the patent invented by Jones and acquired by TQP in 2006.

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Upon the completion of all portions of the new capital raising plan, common shareholders will own about 5.5% of common stock on a diluted basis.

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