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by richardowright 2265 days ago
Sprint's towers were built for it's CDMA network running in the 1900 MHz spectrum. However, their LTE network primarily run at the 2.5GHz spectrum which has far less range/requires a different cell tower spacing. As a result, they have coverage gaps on the LTE network. If they moved to VoLTE, they'd drop a lot of calls due to the gaps, so they've primarily kept voice on the CDMA network.