NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- SoftBank (SFTBY:OTC) just dropped $20 billion to buy control ofSprint Nextel (S).
One of the implications of this deal, some observers have concluded, is that SoftBank will now no longer be able to do a deal to buy back
Yahoo!'s (YHOO) stake in
Yahoo! Japan, which SoftBank also controls.
Not so fast. There are several ways the Sprint deal could be good for Yahoo! shareholders.