US operator Sprint said yesterday it no longer has a majority stake in Clearwire and as a result was able to increase its voting rights in the venture without risk of a default trigger on its own debt, reports Reuters. Last year Sprint, Clearwire’s largest shareholder, reduced its voting shares in the company to below 50 percent in order to avoid any risk of a default trigger on its own debt at a time when Clearwire faced a possible loan default."Now that our economic interest has fallen below 50 percent, we are reclaiming our full voting rights so that our voting rights and economic rights are once again aligned," said a Sprint spokesman.