Sprint selects new vendors and plans on leaving 20,000 cell sites

The company estimates that the total costs savings from the project over a seven-year period will be $10 billion to $11 billion. Sprint said the savings will come from capital efficiencies, reducing energy costs, lowering roaming expenses, backhaul savings and the eventual reduction in total cell sites. As part of the project, Sprint expects to cut the number of cell sites it operates by 20,000, down to a little below 45,000 total.. Read more: Sprint selects network project vendors, will start shutting down iDEN in 2013 – FierceWireless