By shifting that push-to-talk traffic to the CDMA technology that Sprint, Verizon and other networks use, the company can begin coaxing some customers off the systems that came in the merger of Sprint and Nextel in 2005. The company plans to retire that iDEN technology in 2013. Read More…

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

Zachary Investment Research analyst Patrick Comack said Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S), the WiMax service provider which owns a majority stake in Clearwire (NASDAQ:CLWR), now has no choice but to buy out its partner after AT&T’s proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA, Read More

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