[gymbeaux]

Anyone who thought the merger would result in T-Mobile’s balance sheet getting worse, doesn’t understand how businesses work. The ONLY asset Sprint had by the time it was a carcass of its former self was the spectrum. It was economical for T-Mobile to transition Sprint devices/customers to T-Mobile, but certainly it’s not economical to keep, say, retail and customer support staff around.

[local_crmdgeon]

Sprint was a dead man walking and had been for nearly a decade. Their main activity in KC was layoffs.

I still think it was killed by the Nextel merger. Both were great before that, and the golem that emerged was… not

[nradov]

Sprint was killed by making the wrong bet on 4G technology. They wasted their capital on rolling out a nationwide Wimax network right before all the other carriers and device manufacturers decided to use LTE instead. At that point Sprint was out of money to replace their dead end network.