The analyst adds that the number of subscribers is likely to fall during the period when Clearwire overlays its network with TDD-LTE and Sprint repositions WiMAX devices into the prepaid base.

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As you would expect, Sprint is leaking out that they are on track for approval, or not, in the normal time period.

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The company said that its revenues grew more than 5% over the same period last year and that it added a net 410, 000 postpaid subscribers to its core Sprint platform (excluding Nextel losses) banking on another quarter of healthy iPhone sales.

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Sprint Nextel recently confessed that it has complied with at least eight million law enforcement requests for phone records over a period of just one year.

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