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Michael Hodel
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Cost-Cutting and Modest Customer Growth Mark Sprint's Quarter as Uncertainty Remains Very High

Sprint has been quick to point out that revenue grew for the first time in more than two years during its fiscal second quarter. However, as we suspected after the firm announced preliminary results last week, the mix of equipment sales between installment plans and leases was the primary driver of growth. Wireless services revenue declined 6.3% year over year, a bit more than half of which we estimate was attributable to the migration to unsubsidized rates plans, with most of the remainder rela...
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Sprint Corp.

Sprint is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a communications company providing wireless and wireline communications products and services to consumers, businesses, government subscribers, and resellers. The company has two segments: Wireless, which provides wireless services on a postpaid and prepaid payment basis to retail subscribers and also on a wholesale basis, including the sale of wireless services that utilize the company's network but are sold under the wholesaler's brand; and Wireline, which provides a suite of wireline communication services to other communications companies and targeted business customers, as well as voice, data and internet protocol communication services.

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Michael Hodel

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