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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedSprint Nextel to slow down MVNO adds on network.(News)
RCR Wireless News, April, 2006
Byline: Kelly Hill Sprint Nextel Corp. doesn't expect to add many new mobile virtual network operators to its network and plans to take time to digest the ones it already has and see how they do, company officials said at CTIA Wireless 2006. Len Lauer, Sprint Nextel's chief operating officer, noted that a number of postpaid MVNOs are slated to launch service on the operator's network this year, including Helio L.L.C.
and Disney Mobile. Mobile ESPN began offering service nationwide earlier this year. Lauer said that Sprint Nextel "[turns] down a lot of companies" that want to use its network and that the carrier does not want to hurt its core Sprint and Nextel brands by enabling many MVNOs. However, he noted, the virtual network operators are...
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