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Sprint

168 articles – stable

The $26B T-Mobile merger, cleared in 2020 after DOJ remedies including Boost Mobile’s sale, transformed Sprint from a national carrier into an integration and regulatory legacy story.

Who they are

Sprint appears in coverage as a former major U.S. wireless carrier whose network, prepaid operations and spectrum became central to T-Mobile’s acquisition. Earlier stories also place it alongside AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile in carrier-wide issues including location-data practices, device launches and wireless competition, while Google used Sprint and T-Mobile networks for its Project Fi service.

The recent arc

Coverage peaked around the 2018-20 merger fight, with the 2019Q2 high point driven by the proposed $26B T-Mobile deal, DOJ approval and the remedy requiring Dish to acquire Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Sprint’s prepaid business and certain spectrum assets. A U.S. District judge’s favorable 2020 ruling removed a major obstacle, and T-Mobile then completed the merger.

The tension

The core tension is consolidation versus competition and oversight. T-Mobile’s absorption of Sprint was conditioned on divesting Boost Mobile to preserve a challenger, while Sprint and the other national carriers faced scrutiny over location-data disclosures. The later $200M Lifeline settlement and CFIUS’s $60M fine against T-Mobile tie Sprint’s legacy operations to continuing compliance exposure.

Why it matters

Sprint’s trajectory shows that a carrier merger’s consequences extend beyond closing: network retirement, ownership obligations to SoftBank, asset divestitures and regulatory liabilities can remain active years later. If T-Mobile’s integration path continues, Sprint will increasingly matter less as a standalone competitor and more as a test case for whether consolidation’s promised scale can coexist with durable consumer protections and competitive alternatives.

Sprint has appeared in 168 articles since 2005-10. Coverage peaked in 2019Q4 with 11 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, iPhone.

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Coverage Timeline

2025-10-18
CNBC 81 related

Apple and Formula One announce a five-year US media rights deal for all races, starting in 2026; sources: Apple is paying ~$140M/year, up from ESPN's ~$85M/year

and no one saw it coming BBC : Apple wins US F1 TV rights in $750m deal Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times : F1 races to air exclusively on Apple TV next year Timi Cantisano / Android Police : YouTube TV v...

2024-08-15
Reuters 12 related

CFIUS fines T-Mobile a record $60M for allegedly failing to prevent and report unauthorized access to sensitive data after its Sprint merger in 2020

Authority & Possible Basis of Violation  — What is New in CFIUS Enforcement? Lekha Gupta / Benzinga : T-Mobile Hit With $60M Fine For Data Security Violations: Report Akshay Kumar / Android Headlines ...

2023-12-27
2021-08-04
Light Reading 12 related

T-Mobile confirms that it will shut down Sprint's LTE network by June 30, 2022, following its decision to shut down Sprint's 3G CDMA network on January 1, 2022

T-Mobile confirmed to Light Reading that it will shut down the Sprint LTE network by June 30, 2022.

2021-08-02
Politico

Sources: FTC's lead economics expert in its antitrust case against Facebook, Carl Shapiro, has parted ways with the agency as it prepares to refile its case

Economics consultant Carl Shapiro, who hasn't commented on why he left the case, has a history of ideological differences with agency Chair Lina Khan. Tweets: @florianederer , @leah_nylen , @politico ...

2021-04-07
The Verge 7 related

T-Mobile launches its 5G home internet service, costing $60-$65/month with no data caps, hardware rental fees, or annual contracts

Once again putting Sprint's mid-band spectrum to work  —  After a long pilot period, T-Mobile is making its 5G home internet service a reality.

2021-03-18
The Verge 29 related

Intel hires Justin Long, who played the “I'm a Mac” role in Apple's Mac vs PC ads, to pitch Intel-based PCs and tout touchscreens and convertible form factors

they did do at least two* ads that talked about Macs running Windows Vista, an indirect acknowledgement of the processor. I remember because they involved PC World *("The Suit" ran only for a day befo...

2020-11-05
2020-11-04
Axios 5 related

FCC says T-Mobile will pay a $200M fine to settle claims Sprint was illegitimately drawing excess subsidies from the Lifeline phone program for low-income users

T-Mobile will pay a $200 million civil penalty to the U.S. Treasury to resolve an investigation into whether Sprint …

2020-07-17
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Sprint has appeared in 166 tech news articles since December 2014. The biggest stories include T-Mobile to buy Sprint for ~$26B in stock; John Legere to run combined company that... and Google's MVNO is called Project Fi, costs $20/month + $10/GB for data in US and abroad,.... Frequently covered alongside T-Mobile, AT&T, FCC, SoftBank, and Verizon.

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