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Sprint Creates Hispanic Business Unit
Overland Park, Kan. –Sprint created a new Hispanic business unit and named an executive with a Brazilian carrier as SVP for the Hispanic market....
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Sprint Bringing Stores To Customers’ Homes, Offices
Overland Park, Kan. – Sprint will roll out a fleet of 5,000 vehicles by year’s end to deliver and set up phone upgrades, transfer...
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Sprint: We’re Doubling Company-Owned Store Count
Overland Park, Kan. — Sprint will more than double the number of company-owned stores tomorrow when it opens 1,435 Sprint-RadioShack stores, the company said....
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Sprint Adds Wi-Fi Calling To iPhones
Overland Park, Kan. — Sprint joined T-Mobile in offering Wi-Fi calling from iPhones. With the feature, iPhone subscribers can initiate and receive calls over...
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Sprint Raises Stakes In Carrier Competition
Overland Park, Kan. – Sprint upped the ante in wireless competition by reimbursing all of a consumer’s cost to switch to Sprint, including early...
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Sprint Adds Its First LG Tablet
Overland Park, Kan. – Sprint will offer an LG tablet for the first time on March 13, equipping it with LTE and offering it...
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Sprint To Be First With LG’s G Flex2 Curved Phone
Overland Park, Kansas—Sprint will become the first U.S. carrier to offer LG’s curved G Flex2 smartphone, beginning March 13, LG said. AT&T and U.S....
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Sprint Renews Kevin Durant’s Contract
Overland Park, Kan. – Oklahoma City Thunder guard Kevin Durant will enter his fourth consecutive year as a Sprint spokesperson in national advertising when...
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RadioShack Sheds More Light On Sprint Strategy
Fort Worth, Texas – RadioShack provided more specifics on its proposed melding with Sprint in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday....
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RadioShack Bankruptcy Plan Won’t Reshape Cellular Market
Fort Worth, Texas — RadioShack’s Chapter 11 plans, if approved, will eliminate AT&T, Verizon and select MVNOs, including TracFone, from almost all of the...
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Sprint Plans To Add 500 Stores
Overland Park, Kan. — “Distribution growth is imperative” to adding subscribers, and Sprint plans to add 500 stores this year, CEO Marcelo Claure said....
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Sprint Posts Subscriber Gains, Widens Wireless Operating Loss
Overland Park, Kan. — Sprint reversed three consecutive quarters of net losses in retail postpaid subscribers on the Sprint-platform network and posted a 42...
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Sprint Bundles iPhone, Mini
Overland Park, Kan. – Sprint is bundling an iPhone 6 and iPad Mini 3 as part of a device-leasing deal that saves consumers $17...
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Carriers Spend $41.3 Billion For More Wireless Spectrum
Washington — Verizon, AT&T and Dish came away from the FCC’s AWS-3 (Advanced Wireless Services 3) spectrum auctions as the biggest winners followed by...
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Sprint Targets T-Mobile With Trade-In Program
Overland Park, Kan. – Sprint is going after T-Mobile subscribers by guaranteeing a minimum $200 trade-in value when they trade in their current T-Mobile...
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Sprint Expands Device-Leasing Program
Overland Park, Kan. – Sprint today expanded its device-leasing program to the LG G3 and Samsung Galaxy Note. The models join the iPhone 6,...
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Sprint Prepaid Brands Adding First Windows Phone
Irvine, Calif. – Sprint is stepping up its commitment to the Windows Phone OS with plans to offer a Windows phone for the first...
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Carrier Price Wars Heat Up With Sprint Half-Off Deal
Overland Park, Kan. – Sprint pulled out the big guns in the intensifying carrier price wars, offering to halve the bills of Verizon and...
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Sprint Expands iPhone Leasing Program
Overland Park, Kansas – Sprint unveiled a third leasing option for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, adding a 30-month option to the current...
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Sprint Extends Lease Program To Select iPads
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Sprint continues to expand its leasing program, originally launched with the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, extended to the...
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Carriers Revealing Plans For Nexus 6
New York – Carriers have begun disclosing their plans for the industry’s first Android smartphone running the Android 5.0 Lollipop OS. Sprint will make...
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Sprint Plans Cutbacks As Postpaid Subscriber Losses Continue
Overland Park, Kan. — Sprint lost postpaid subscribers at a faster pace in its fiscal second quarter than in the previous quarter, and the...
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Sprint Expands Handset Leasing Program
Overland Park, Kansas – Sprint expanded its Sprint Lease program to the Samsung Galaxy S 5 and Samsung Galaxy S5 Sport, having limited leasing...
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Sprint Reveals Availability Dates Of Sharp Aquos Phone
Overland Park, Kansas – Sprint revealed availability dates of the first Sharp smartphone to be available through a U.S. carrier. The Aquos Crystal, unveiled...
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Sprint Prepaid Brand Sharpens Price Plans
Overland Park, Kan. – Sprint expanded its selection of Sprint-brand prepaid plans for feature phones and smartphones, reduced prices, and packed them with more...
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Sprint To Promote New iPhones With $50 Unlimited Plan
Las Vegas – Apple unveiled its new smart phones in California, but Sprint was here at Super Mobility Week to unveil a $50 unlimited...
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T-Mobile Ups The Ante In Price War
Bellevue, Wash. — T-Mobile fired the latest shot in the wireless price wars, launching a limited-time promotion that boosts the LTE data allotment in...
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Sprint Fires Another Shot In Price War
Overland Park, Kan. – Sprint and T-Mobile, once potential merger partners, are breaking up badly. Sprint is cutting prices on its unlimited data, talk...
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Carrier Cat Fight Intensifies With T-Mobile Offer
Bellevue, Wash. – In another sign of intense competition among carriers, T-Mobile responded to Sprint’s new pricing initiatives by offering free unlimited LTE data...
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Sharp Raises Cellular Profile With Sprint Deal
Overland Park, Kan. — Sharp will raise its profile in the U.S. cellphone market with the launch of an Aquos smartphone through Sprint and...
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Sprint Launches First Salvo In Price War To Retake Share
Overland Park, Kan. — Sprint unleashed another weapon in its battle to win back subscribers, launching new shared-data plans said to offer double the...
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Sprint Adds First Spark-Equipped Tablet
Overland Park, Kan. — Sprint plans Aug. 15 availability of its first tablet equipped with Sprint Spark triband(800/1900/2,500 MHz) LTE technology, which is available...
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Sprint Gives Up Pursuit Of T-Mobile
Overland Park, Kan. — Sprint and majority owner SoftBank have given up their pursuit of a Sprint/T-Mobile merger that they hoped would create a...
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Sprint Tests New Rate Plans, Launches A Walmart Exclusive
Overland Park, Kan. — Sprint is testing new rate plans and launched a new Walmart-exclusive Virgin Mobile prepaid plan as part of its efforts...
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Sprint To Carry ZTE Smart Projector
Overland Park, Kan. — Sprint announced it will carry ZTE’s pocket projector and mobile hot spot, which it is calling the Sprint LivePro. The...
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Sprint Expands Network Upgrades, Adds Satisfaction Guarantee
Chicago — Sprint CEO Dan Hesse went to the Museum of Broadcast Communication today to announce a fitness-oriented smartphone, network enhancements, and a satisfaction...
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Walmart, Sprint Launch New $20 Prepaid Plan
Bentonville, Ark. — Walmart and Sprint will introduce a new prepaid cellular offer tomorrow that provides either unlimited voice or unlimited text for $20...
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Report: T-Mobile, Sprint Closer To Deal
New York – Sprint and T-Mobile are closer to announcing a merger agreement, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Although the...
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Report: Sprint, T-Mobile To Merge
New York – Sprint and T-Mobile will merge if reports are true that Sprint owner SoftBank will purchase T-Mobile from European telecom company Deutsche...
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Boost, Virgin Add Samsung Galaxy S5
New York – Sprint no-contract brands Boost Mobile and Virgin added the flagship Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone to their selections. The brands didn’t offer...
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Samsung Sharpens Tab 4 Prices, Expands Carrier Sales
Ridgefield Park, N.J. – Samsung announced U.S. pricing and availability of the Wi-Fi versions of its previously announced Galaxy Tab 4 series, sharpening the...
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