The remaining LTE towers of US wireless provider Sprint have begun their official closures, a T-Mobile spokesperson confirmed. The edge† It’s been more than two years since T-Mobile acquired Sprint in April 2020, including its network, stores, assets, spectrum, towers, and customers.
T-Mobile has decommissioned Sprint’s wireless spectrum from its 3G and LTE networks to add bandwidth faster and accelerate the coverage of its nationwide 5G network. With 66.7 million subscribers before the merger, T-Mobile now has more than 109 million subscribers as of Q1 ’22 (Source) and is the No. 2 carrier in the US. (Verizon has the most subscribers: 143 million in Q1 22 [Source]) is launching its 5G home broadband service in areas of the rural United States.
My local Sprint store was one of those that was converted into a T-Mobile showroom (Aug 2020)
T-Mobile faced many hurdles and backlash from regulators and critics who opposed the merger due to anticompetitive decisions that potentially harmed consumers and threatened jobs and businesses (outside dealers).
Sprint brings back memories for me personally. I was a Sprint customer in the years leading up to an iPhone revolution and remember the days of push-to-talk, a wider variety of phones in the showrooms, and the days when CDMA 3G download speeds were a blazing-fast 2.7 Mbps . There are too many factors to pinpoint a single event in history that could have caused Sprint’s downfall.
Hi Sprint, it was nice meeting you.
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