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The following companies were acquired from Embarq, which was formed in 2006 by the spin-off of the local telephone operations of Sprint Corporation (previously named United Telephone). It also includes companies formerly owned by Centel which was purchased by Sprint in 1993. CenturyLink of Florida, Inc. CenturyLink of Minnesota, Inc.
Sprint also had a reciprocal 1xRTT, EVDO and LTE data and voice roaming agreement with U.S. Cellular. Sprint had an LTE roaming agreement with AT&T as well, which was typically limited to 3G speeds. Several cases of Sprint phones simultaneously roaming on Verizon's CDMA network for voice and AT&T's LTE network for data were observed in 2017.
The campus was designed to accommodate 14,500 employees and it reached its maximum capacity at the time of the Nextel-Sprint merger in 2004. Since then Sprint has been downsizing with 11,000 employees (7,300 Sprint employees, the rest contractors) in the complex in 2010.
On January 20, 2010, Boost Mobile's then-parent company Sprint Nextel managed to secure some of the 1985 Chicago Bears players (including Jim McMahon, Willie Gault, and Mike Singletary) to re-create the team's famous "Super Bowl Shuffle" rap song and music video as "The Boost Mobile Shuffle" during the first quarter of the Super Bowl XLIV.
The Sprint brand was officially amalgamated into T-Mobile on August 2, 2020. No new customers will be accepted to the Sprint network or plans going forward, and current Sprint customers can walk into almost any T-Mobile store (and vice versa) to be helped. Customer service and websites were also integrated this day as well.
In May 2007, Virgin Mobile USA, Inc. initiated an initial public offering (IPO) by filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. [5] On October 10, 2007, Virgin Mobile's sold 27.5 million shares at US$15 per share, at the low end of the original $15–$17 prediction.
The company was founded in 1909 as The American Telephone Company.It was owned by Sprint Nextel until 2006 when it was spun off into Embarq.CenturyTel acquired Embarq in 2009, at which point United Telephone of Kansas began doing business as CenturyLink.
Sprint Corporation, a former major telecommunications company in the United States; Sprint a 1982 jazz album by the Red Rodney Ira Sullivan Quintet; Sprint 95, a French sailboat design; Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT), a clinical trial in high blood pressure treatment; Sprints (band), an Irish band formed in 2019