The Sprint brand officially discontinued on August 2, 2020. Leadership, background, and stock changes happened immediately, with customer-side changes happening over time. On April 1, 2020, Sprint Corporation completed their merger with T-Mobile US, which effectively made Sprint a subsidiary of T-Mobile until the Sprint brand officially discontinued in the beginning of August. In May 2018, Michel Combes replaced Claure, and had been working to get Sprint's merger with its rival T-Mobile through regulatory proceedings. In August 2014, CEO Dan Hesse was replaced by Marcelo Claure. In July 2013, as part of the SoftBank transactions, Sprint acquired the remaining shares of the wireless broadband carrier Clearwire Corporation that it did not already own. In 2013, following the shutdown of the Nextel network and concurrent with the acquisition by SoftBank, the company resumed using the name Sprint Corporation. Until 2005, the company was also known as the Sprint Corporation, but took the name Sprint Nextel Corporation when it merged with Nextel Communications and adopted its black and yellow color scheme, along with a new logo. In 2006, Sprint left the local landline telephone business and spun those assets off into a new company named Embarq, which later became a part of Lumen Tech (formerly CenturyLink), which remains one of the largest long-distance providers in the United States. ![]() Sprint traced its origins to the Brown Telephone Company, which was founded in 1899 to bring telephone service to the rural area around Abilene, Kansas. Sprint used CDMA, EvDO and 4G LTE networks, and formerly operated iDEN, WiMAX, and 5G NR networks. ![]() In July 2013, a majority of the company was purchased by the Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank Group. The company also offered wireless voice, messaging, and broadband services through its various subsidiaries under the Boost Mobile and Open Mobile brands and wholesale access to its wireless networks to mobile virtual network operators. Before it merged with T-Mobile US on April 1, 2020, it was the fourth-largest mobile network operator in the United States, serving 54.3 million customers as of June 30, 2019. ![]() Sprint Corporation was an American telecommunications company. I-wireless, Open Mobile, SprintCom, Central Telephone, UbiquiTelĪrchived official website at the Wayback Machine (archived )
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