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Sprint to Purchase Spectrum, Customers from U.S. Cellular

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Nov 7, 2012, 8:01 AM   by Eric M. Zeman
updated Nov 7, 2012, 8:17 AM

Updated: added one sentence; added details and link ti press release.

Sprint today announced that it plans to purchase 1900MHz spectrum licenses and about 585,000 customers from U.S. Cellular. The spectrum licenses will give Sprint an additional 20MHz slice of PCS coverage in Chicago and Champaign, Ill.; South Bend, Ind.; and select areas of Michigan and Ohio. Sprint will gain a 10MHz sliver of PCS spectrum in St. Louis. The customer acquisitions in those markets represents about 10% of U.S. Cellular's entire subscriber base. The transaction is valued at $480 million. Sprint is in the middle of selling a 70% stake of itself to Japan's Softbank for $20.1 billion. Both deals are subject to regulatory approval and aren't expected to close until 2013. Sprint said that U.S. Cellular customers in the affected markets will see no change in their service until the deal is finalized, at which time it will provide more information.

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GettingSleepy

Nov 7, 2012, 5:11 PM

Sprints Coverage

As someone who sells Verizon, we've recently seen a large influx of customers wanting to leave Sprint because of coverage issues. This transaction won't be good for my sales, but should be good for Sprint.
 
 
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