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Sprint Toshiba Phones
It's a complex situation. Toshiba is technically the manufacturer, but they don't maintain a presence in the U.S. for their phone business. Audiovox handles sales, marketing, and distribution for Toshiba phones in the U.S. Audiovox does the same for other companies like Curitel, Pantech, and Sharp. Toshiba does own 25% of Audiovox Communications, however.
In the case of Sprint, I believe they like Audiovox, but not the Audiovox brand. So Sprint requests that Audiovox phones be Toshiba- or Sprint-branded. Audiovox is happ...
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