[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.