In mid-May, Clearwire transferred about 700 employees involved in network management and services to Ericcson, one of the three vendors Sprint recently chose for outsourcing its network management activities.

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He runs Network 1 Consulting, an information-technology outsourcing business in Atlanta, as an S-Corporation.

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Among the many things that surprised Michael Jordan when he arrived at troubled tech giant EDS last year was a deep and puzzling irony: EDS invented the business of outsourcing, overhauling other firms' computer systems and running them far more efficiently, yet its own internal network was a haphazard and disjointed mess.

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