Sprint

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.sprint.com
Employees: 56,000
Employee growth: (6.7%)

Running to keep up in the US telecom race, Sprint Nextel is the #3 wireless carrier behind Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility in terms of subscribers. Sprint Nextel serves nearly 40 million customers with mobile voice, data, and Web services over its nationwide network. While the namesake brand is reserved for postpaid accounts, the company also offers prepaid mobile access (mainly to the youth market) through its Boost Mobile subsidiary. Sprint Nextel also provides cellular access to other carriers on a wholesale basis. The company's smaller legacy wireline business provides long-distance voice, Internet, and data network services primarily to corporate customers and other carriers.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $35,635.0M
One year growth: (11.2%)
Net income: ($2,796.0)M

Officers:
Chairman: James H. (Jim) Hance Jr.
CEO, President, and Director: Daniel R. (Dan) Hesse
CFO: Robert H. (Bob) Brust

Competitors:
AT&T Mobility
Cellco
T-Mobile USA

Look up sprint in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

A sprint is a sharp burst of forward movement.

Sprint may refer to:

• Sprint (race), a type of short race in athletics
• Sprint, a major Cellular and Tier 1 telecommunications company in the United States. For local landline service formerly Sprint, see Embarq.
• Sprint (cycling), a track event involving a one-on-one match race between opponents who start next to each other
• Sprint (missile), an anti-ballistic missile
• Sprint (word processor), software published by Borland
• Sprint (scrum), a development phase in the Scrum software engineering method.

Sprint may also mean:

• Sprint Cup Series, top racing series of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
• Sprint Expressway, the main expressway network in Klang Valley, Malaysia.
• Chevrolet Sprint, a re-badged version of the Suzuki Swift
• Sprint car racing, auto racing with small, high-powered vehicles
• Alfa Romeo Sprint, automobile produced by Alfa Romeo between 1976 and 1989
• Eastern Sprints, a rowing championship
• Sprint, a business term meaning a brief campaign within a longer sales promotion program designed to maintain interest and excitement
• Open source software development and hacking : an accelerated hackathon, a brief, intense software development gathering
• Sprint 2, a series of racing video games from Atari
• Sprint Nextel, a telecommunications company

See also

• Sprinter

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