Sprint will not take part in 600 MHz auction

Nieuws Mobiel Verenigde Staten 28 SEP 2015
Sprint will not take part in 600 MHz auction

Sprint has announced that it will not take part in the 600 MHz incentive auction scheduled for March 2016. The company said its current spectrum holdings are sufficient to provide existing and future customers with great network coverage and to be able to provide consistent reliability, capacity and speed customers demand. 

CEO Marcelo Claure said, “Sprint’s focus and overarching imperative must be on improving its network and market position in the immediate term so we can remain a powerful force in fostering competition, consumer benefits and innovation in the wireless broadband world. Sprint has the spectrum it needs to deploy its network architecture of the future.” 

Sprint has started a major effort to increase coverage and capacity by densifying its network and increasing the number of cell sites using its existing spectrum. The operator is already deploying new technologies, such as carrier aggregation, that unlock the potential of its strong 2.5 GHz spectrum position. The company has also seen positive results from its infrastructure upgrades in key US markets, as RootMetrics surveys increasingly show. 

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