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Sprint Expands LTE Coverage In A Bid To Catch Up With Rivals
With the iPhone 5 launched, Sprint (NYSE:S) seems to be racing to catch up with AT&T and Verizon in laying out a high-speed 4G LTE network. The third largest U.S. wireless carrier announced Monday that it has expanded its LTE coverage to a to...
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Sprint’s Postpaid Adds And iPhone Performance In Focus This Earnings
Sprint (NYSE:S) plans to announce its Q3 2012 earnings on October 25th. We will be closely watching the company’s net postpaid subscriber additions for the quarter as well as the postpaid churn numbers to see if the management is continuing...
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What Does Sprint’s SoftBank Deal Mean For Its Stock?
Sprint (NYSE:S) announced Monday morning that it has reached an agreement to sell a 70% stake to Japanese telco SoftBank for $20.1 billion, a deal which will see 55% of shares being purchased at $7.30 in addition to an $8 billion cash infusion. T...
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Weekly Telecom Notes: Sprint, Verizon And AT&T
The past week saw quite a few important developments in the telecom sector. Verizon (NYSE:VZ) exceeded the LTE expansion expectations it had set earlier this year by announcing that its LTE network will be available in 417 U.S. markets on October...
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How Would Sprint Benefit From A Softbank Deal?
Sprint’s (NYSE:S) stock surged by more than 10% Thursday morning as rumors swirled that Japanese telco Softbank was in talks to acquire a majority stake of Sprint’s stock, rumors which were later confirmed by Sprint. Meanwhile the sto...
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Sprint Is Worth $5.30 Excluding Takeover Rumors
After the stock market bashing that Sprint (NYSE:S) suffered last year, 2012 has been exceptionally good for the carrier so far. With uncertainty about the company’s future gradually lifting, the third largest U.S. wireless carrier has seen...
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Is T-Mobile’s Comeback A Threat To Sprint?
Sprint (NYSE:S) may have done well so far touting its unlimited plans to differentiate itself from the rest of the national carriers but that has changed with T-Mobile’s launch of similar plans last month. With the announcement, T-Mobile si...
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Sprint Touts Unlimited Plans And Aggressive Rollout Strategy; Sells A Million LTE Devices
In case you thought Sprint’s (NYSE:S) puny LTE coverage would play a role in increasing its churn rate, the company CEO Dan Hesse has a stat for you. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference, Hesse said that Sprint has managed ...
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Free iPhone 4 Will Help Sprint Meet iPhone Commitment
The iPhone 5 may have hogged most of the attention since its launch last week and seen the most launch-day pre-order interest of any iPhone as well, but two of Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) U.S. carrier partners will be excited for a completely dif...
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Sprint’s Unlimited Plans Mask LTE Disadvantage As 4G iPhone 5 Arrives
With Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone 5 available for pre-order starting Friday, U.S. wireless carriers will be getting ready to promote one of the key features that differentiates this new-generation iPhone from the previous ones – LTE s...
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Weekly Telecom Notes: Sprint Debt Sale, Verizon Close To Acquiring Spectrum
The past week saw quite a few developments in the telecom sector. Sprint (NYSE:S) announced it was able to successfully raise $1.5 billion from the bond market to refinance some of its existing debt as well as fund its network upgrades and LTE ex...
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Sprint Raises Additional Debt To Fund Network Upgrades
Sprint’s (NYSE:S) Network Vision plan received a boost last Friday as the carrier accessed the bond markets for the third time in the last year to raise $1.5 billion in debt. The third largest U.S. wireless carrier said that it plans to use...
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Sprint Discounts iPhone 4S To Goose Sales Ahead Of iPhone 5 Launch
As the launch of Apple’s fifth-generation iPhone nears and rumors about the phone’s specifications and launch date gain strength, it seems like more and more buyers are holding off on purchasing an iPhone in anticipation of the event....
