Sprint Corporation

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Sprint Corporation

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Public Company (USA)
Seat Overland Park , Kansas ,United StatesUnited States
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Number of employees 31,000
sales 34,532,000,000 US dollars
Branch telecommunications
As of March 31, 2015

Sprint Corporation (formerly Sprint Nextel Corporation ) was a US wireless operator that operated worldwide. The company's headquarters were in Overland Park , Kansas .

The company was created through a merger of Sprint and Nextel, the third and fifth largest companies in the industry in the USA at the time. Sprint acquired Nextel for $ 36 billion in 2005. As a result, Sprint Nextel was able to win around 1.3 million new mobile phone owners and thus had over 45.6 million customers.

In 2013 Sprint took over Clearwire and parts of US Cellular .

In the same year, 78% of the shares in Sprint were taken over by the telecommunications company SoftBank of the Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son for about 20 billion dollars . On January 23, 2017 it was announced that Sprint would take over 33% of the shares in the streaming service Tidal from the US musician Jay-Z .

Sprint PCS and Nextel used different technologies and frequencies: Sprint PCS was a CDMA2000 network, while Nextel used the iDEN standard developed by Motorola . Both systems were not compatible with the GSM used in Europe . However, Sprint customers had the option of receiving a SIM card programmed with their phone number that they could use in GSM telephones. Telephones also existed that were both CDMA or iDEN and GSM-capable.

Sprint Nextel was the title sponsor of the NASCAR Sprint Cup , a motorsport league in the USA , from 2004 to 2016 . The company also gave its name to the Sprint Center in Kansas.

Sprint Nextel operated a global provider network through its subsidiary SprintLink and also a backbone network based on the OC-192 standard . Customers included large international corporations, retailers and a few fast food chains . SprintLink peered with Tier 2 and Tier 3 ISPs and had networks in the United States, Western Europe, East Asia, Australia, and India. The network lines consisted entirely of underground fiber optic lines in the United States and Europe as well as undersea lines in the Pacific , Atlantic and Indian Oceans . SprintLink was responsible for cable maintenance and management in the TAT-14 consortium .

At the beginning of April 2020, Sprint merged with T-Mobile US and the company was merged with it on a long-term basis. This made T-Mobile US the third largest provider in the USA.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Executive Team
  2. ↑ Sprint Chairman Masayoshi Son Buys a House Near Sprint's Headquarters , October 30, 2015
  3. ↑ a b c Form 10-K 2015
  4. ^ Sprint Completes Acquisition of Clearwire , July 9, 2013
  5. ↑ US Cellular Customers: What You Should Know About The Sale To Sprint ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 17, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.citizensutilityboard.org
  6. ↑ Thomas Jahn and Martin Wocher: Success with side effects , in: Handelsblatt , No. 108 from June 6th to 9th, 2014, p. 22f.
  7. ↑ Martin Kölling: Sprint owner Masayochi Son. Visionary with feeling , in: Handelsblatt, No. 108 from June 6th to 9th, 2014, p. 22f.
  8. ↑ heise online: Music streaming: US carrier Sprint joins Tidal. Retrieved January 24, 2017 .
  9. ↑ The Standard : T-Mobile US completes merger with rival Sprint. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .