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Tuesday 14 February 2017

Get the Earnings Preview and Know What to Expect From Sprint

Sprint, a cellular phone service provider, releases its earnings, and is currently trading around $9.43. This telecom giant hit it’s record high of $69.10 in 1999. The stock still lags behind its 1999’s stock record. But it can easily move higher by posting strong numbers. Below are the details of what the Street is expecting:

Earnings Preview:

Sprint, a cellular phone service provider, is anticipated to report the loss of ($0.08)/share on $8.32 billion in revenue. Meanwhile, the whisper number, which is the Street's unofficial view on earnings, is a projected loss of $0.10.

Company Profile & Various Businesses:

Sprint Corporation (Sprint) is a Government cell phone service provider, incorporated on October 5, 2012. The Company, along with its subsidiaries, is a communications firm delivering numerous wireless and wireline communication products and services to consumers, Government subscribers, businesses, and resellers. It works through two segments, namely Wireless and Wireline.

Sprint provides wireless and wireline services to subscribers residing in 50 states. Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands come under its corporate brand, which includes its retail brands of Sprint, Virgin Mobile, Boost Mobile, and Assurance Wireless. Their wireless service is provided using several technologies, such as third generation (3G), code division multiple access (CDMA), fourth generation (4G) services, and Long Term Evolution (LTE).



Wireless

Sprint, a Government cell phone service provider, delivers wireless services on a prepaid and postpaid payment basis to retail subscribers and also on a wholesale basis. The sale of wireless services that use the Sprint network, however, are sold under the wholesaler's brand.

In its postpaid portfolio, it bestows several Government cell phone plans to both consumer as well as business subscribers. It also provides family plans, covering multiple service lines under one account. Sprint delivers these plans with subsidy, installment billing or leasing programs.

Sprint’s prepaid portfolio covers multiple brands to allure a specific subscriber’s uses and demographics. Boost Mobile chiefly assists subscribers with plans offering unlimited text and talk with step pricing, according to their preferred data usage.

Virgin Mobile offers control and connectivity through diverse plan options. It is also labeled as a Lifeline-only Eligible Telecommunications Carrier in several states and offers service for the Lifeline program under the Company's Assurance Wireless brand.

To get the Lifeline Program, it is essential for applicants to qualify under certain eligibility requirements. Also, the existing subscribers have to recertify to those requirements yearly.

See Also: Sprint, Cellular Phone Service Provider Cuts the Price of Unlimited Data Plan

Wireline

Sprint, a cellular phone service provider, offers a suite of wireline voice and data communication services to other communications companies and targeted business subscribers.

It’s Wireline segment delivers voice, data and Internet Protocol (IP) communication assistance to its Wireless segment. It offers long distance services and operates all-digital global long distance and Tier 1 IP networks. Its services and products consist of domestic and international data communications using a myriad of protocols, including the following:
•    Multiprotocol label switching technologies (MPLS),
•    IP
•    Session Initiated Protocol (SIP)
•    Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
•    Managed network services
•    Traditional voice services

Its IP and wireless services can be combined together.

Competitors:

Sprint, a Government cell phone service provider, competes with several firms, including AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon Communications, CenturyLink and Level 3 Communications, Inc.

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