Yea I saw that on 60 Minutes, but it was a Chinese tech company who Cisco was suing over some major copyright infringements they stole (even manuals were copied word for word, even with mistakes and typos etc.) and there was a lot of worries over their company and their Chinese CEO being controlled by the communist government. I forgot their name though. Sprint was slated to join up with them to build out the 4G network here because they'd be capable of some super fast speeds because of their tech but the US Govt asked Sprint to not do the deal because the Chinese government also controls a lot of their business practices etc.
However, this Japanese company is completely different and I'm glad for this Softbank Mobile deal and also the Clearwire deal... looking good for Sprint's future which is why I'm most likely switching over from AT&T soon :]