page_title: Sprint Corporation
section_title: Wireless operations
hierarchical_section_title: Sprint Corporation / Wireless operations
caption_attribution_description: A Sprint retail store located at 7505 SE Tualatin Valley Highway in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States.
context_page_description: Sprint Corporation was an American telecommunications company. Before its acquisition by T-Mobile US on April 1, 2020, it was the fourth-largest mobile network operator in the United States, serving 54.3 million customers as of June 30, 2019. The company also offered wireless voice, messaging, and broadband services through its various subsidiaries under the Boost Mobile and Open Mobile brands and wholesale access to its wireless networks to mobile virtual network operators.
  In July 2013, a majority of the company was purchased by the Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank Group. Sprint is no longer trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Sprint uses CDMA, EvDO, 4G LTE, and 5G NR networks. Sprint was incorporated in Kansas.
  Sprint traced its origins to the Brown Telephone Company, which was founded in 1899 to bring telephone service to the rural area around Abilene, Kansas. In 2006, Sprint left the local landline telephone business and spun those assets off into a new company named Embarq, which later became a part of CenturyLink, which remains one of the largest long-distance providers in the United States.
caption: This "Sprint Store by ccComm" located in Hillsboro, Oregon sells Sprint-branded wireless products and services exclusively.
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