Sprint’s network has been officially retired
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The Sprint shutdown is fully underway. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The remnants of Sprint's network have been put out to pasture. As of yesterday, Sprint's LTE network has been retired by its new owner, T-Mobile. That's along with Sprint's 3G CDMA network, which was shut down earlier this year, and what remained of T-Mobile's own 3G network, which enters retirement today. T-Mobile spokesperson Justin Paulsen confirmed to The Verge that the network shutdowns are now underway.
It may come as a surprise that any part of Sprint's network was still operational so recently. In April 2020, T-Mobile officially took ownership of the company, including all of its spectrum and network towers, which would ultimately be repurposed for 5G. Sprint's 3G CDMA network was the first to go when T-Mobile started to shut...