The remaining LTE towers of the US wireless carrier Sprint have begun their official closure, a spokesperson for T-Mobile confirmed to The border. It has been more than two years since T-Mobile’s acquisition of Sprint in April 2020, including the network, stores, assets, specter, towers and customers.
T-Mobile has disabled Sprint’s wireless spectrum from its 3G and LTE networks to accelerate the addition of bandwidth and accelerate coverage of its national 5G network. With 66.7 million subscribers prior to the merger, T-Mobile now has over 109 million subscribers in the first quarter of ’22 (Source) and is the number 2 carrier in the United States. (Verizon has the largest number of subscribers: 143 million in the first quarter 22 [Source]) launches its 5G home broadband service in rural areas of the United States.
My local Sprint store was one of those converted to a T-Mobile showroom store (Aug 2020)
T-Mobile faced many hurdles and pushbacks from regulators and critics who opposed the merger for anti-competitive decisions that potentially hurt consumers and threatened jobs and businesses (third-party retailers).
The sprint reminds me personally. I was a Sprint customer in the years leading up to the iPhone revolution and I remember the days of push to talk, a wider variety of phones in showrooms, and the days when CDMA 3G download speeds were blazingly fast of 2.7 Mbps. there are too many factors to pinpoint a single event in its history that may have caused Sprint’s crash.
Goodbye Sprint, it was nice meeting you.
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