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    Sprint's customer growth returns, but Q3 loss doubles on charges

    Carrier charges related to the wireline assets and brand $ 2.38 billion in the quarter, thanks to the lost.
    Sprint is a faint hint of life.


    Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure has injected new life into the company.

    Customers for small and large data plan offers up Sprint customer defections in many circles as being the country's third-largest wireless carrier, which finally returned to growth. The company Sprint approximately 900,000 customers in the business. Most important, this month 30,000 customers who pay, a customer segment Sprint network of people think that because the opponent has struggled to attract further.

    Overland Park, Kan., Company competitors offer to double the amount of data provided, including an aggressive slate of promotions during the past several months rolled out. Marquee Sprint offers "bill cut in half" AT & T or Verizon significantly customers willing to switch on the smartphone, which promises to reduce development was. Program a sword, chainsaw or your old AT & T or Verizon bill clients by taking some other sharp instrument featuring an advertising campaign was bolstered by. According to the company's CEO Marcelo Claure, intends to keep the program going through the whole year.

    Sprint's new attitude, a company with a mission to supercharge who joined the company in August Claure, comes courtesy. The result: better, younger and more data available to users, and as a viable wireless carrier Sprint and T-Mobile as well as positioning itself another upstart. For carriers, the customer reporting growth in turnover compete with AT & T and Verizon both, which means a faster period.

    "We are making progress on all fronts," Claure Thursday said in an investor call.

    Sprint trademark of the wireline assets and charges related to a write-down affected the results. Company $ 1.04 billion, or 26 cents a share a year earlier, compared with a loss of $ 2.38 billion, or 60 cents a share, posted a loss. Excluding these charges, Sprint will lose 24 cents a share.

    Revenue was $ 8.97 billion, down 1.8 percent.

    Analysts, on average, according to Thomson Reuters, 24 cents a share and $ 8.68 billion revenue loss was predicted.

    Sprint shares rose 2.4 percent to $ 4.69.

    "Measuring the quality of their users (a) is," MoffettNathanson analyst Craig Moffet wrote in a research note. "But these financial results. The burn rate has worsened questions and Sprint will run out of cash when they are inescapable."

    Sprint has reversed its speed but also in terms of development to catch up with T-Mobile has a long way to go. T- Mobile 2.1 million subscribers added in the same period the previous month.

    Still, Sprint's customer growth in the No. 4 wireless carrier T-Mobile said that as he was strong enough. T-Mobile CEO John Legere cross sprint to the end of the year the company had expected.

    Sprint and T-Mobile rivalry is heating up in the last few weeks. Late last month, Sprint, it clearly went after the company first to switch to any T-Mobile customers are guaranteed a $ 200 smartphone trade credit dangled. Claure and T-Mobile's CEO John Legere kick during a recent exchange with the Super Bowl, Twitter has started trade barbs over.

    Sprint Nextel served dismantled its losses offset by its prepaid and wholesale businesses, which include the Sprint platform, with the growth in the period, 892,000 net new customers added. A large part of the growth of the service through Sprint sells the Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile brands, and service companies such as wireless Republic where selling wholesale, where the prepaid area, was was.

    Including more than 30,000 customers came from the tablet business. Sprint customers in the period lost 205,000 net phone.

    Like AT & T and Verizon, Sprint business remained a problem. Who pay their bills at the end of the month retail postpaid customer cancel the booking, or rate of customers of the company, rose 2.33 percent from 2.15 percent. The increase in prepaid business rates.

    Claure company become more committed to a strong credit rating, the users are adding. The company proactively aggressive, individual promotions and offers users with a tendency to leave with being behind.

    "We churn for the quarter will be feeling very good about," Claure said. "As we get out of January, we showed a good trend becomes."
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