Sprint Expands with 44 New Retail Stores Creating More Than 300 Jobs Across the Southwest
August 22 2017 - 12:17PM
Business Wire
Company significantly increases the number of
retail locations throughout Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, and
West Texas
Sprint (NYSE:S) continues to expand its presence and investment
in the Southwest with plans to add more than 300 new jobs and 44
new retail locations throughout parts of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada,
Utah and West Texas by the end of 2017. The new jobs will include a
combination of retail, operations and technical experts. Currently,
Sprint counts more than 2,250 regional employees, inclusive of
employees in Idaho and New Mexico, and operates nearly 400 branded
retail locations throughout the Southwest region.
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Sprint is expanding with 44 new retail
stores creating more than 300 jobs throughout Arizona, Colorado,
Nevada, Utah, and West Texas. (Photo: Business Wire)
“We are making an aggressive push to expand on the local level,
making it easier for wireless shoppers to save with Sprint’s
industry-leading value for unlimited data, talk and text,” said
Greg Post, Sprint Regional President for the Mountain Southwest.
“With our continued network improvements and charitable efforts
like the 1Million Project, Sprint, in partnership with the Sprint
Foundation continually seeks opportunities to give back locally by
providing free devices and service to help high school students
throughout the Southwest to complete their online assignments. The
1Million Project is a noteworthy avenue for our employees and
customers to make a difference in our communities.”
Residents interested in applying for open positions should visit
www.sprint.com/jobs.
Solid Network Performance
Sprint continues to improve its network coverage throughout the
Southwest. In Denver, Sprint has held a share of first place for
Overall, Network Reliability, Call and Text Performance and
outright wins for Network Speed and Data Performance as ranked by
Rootmetrics for the first half of 2017. Sprint has held a share or
outright category wins from Rootmetrics in Denver since the first
half of 2015 and is currently providing the fastest average
download speeds in Denver, according to Ookla’s Speedtest.net.1 In
Colorado Springs, Sprint has outright or shared wins for Overall
Performance since the second half of 2016 as ranked by
Rootmetrics.
In Utah, Sprint’s scores from Rootmetrics are competitive, with
a shared first place ranking in Provo. Sprint is also providing the
fastest average download speeds in Provo and Salt Lake City,
according to Ookla’s Speedtest.net.1
In Arizona, the carrier recently made capacity upgrades to its
network in Phoenix and Tucson to bring its best-ever LTE Plus
speeds, with speed increases of 30 percent, to the area by
utilizing its vast holdings of 2.5 GHz spectrum. Sprint even
provided average download speeds of 13.5 Mbps at the CONCACAF Gold
Cup game held in Phoenix.
Sprint has also increased speeds by 30 percent in Las Vegas and
will be bringing upgrades to many casinos along the Las Vegas Strip
through the end of 2017 and the early part of 2018.
Creative new concepts such as the Sprint Magic Box also help
provide a more customized solution for additional boosts in speed.
Sprint recently deployed a Sprint Magic Box with the Denver Housing
Authority at five of their buildings and speeds increased in some
instances by 18-20 Mbps.
“Total wireless data usage has grown, on average, more than 760
percent over the last three years throughout the Southwest region,”
said Eamon O’Leary, regional vice president – Network at Sprint.
“Over the last five years, Sprint has invested well over $1.1
billion throughout our Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Utah and West
Texas network, taking advantage of our available spectrum to add
speed and capacity, ensuring consumers are able to enjoy their
experience now and in the future as the demand for data continues
to grow.”
Unlimited Value
Sprint, the first national wireless carrier to offer unlimited
data, talk and text, recently upped the value of its Unlimited
Freedom plan, offering the best price for fully featured unlimited
among all national carriers. Right now, customers who switch to
Sprint can get 5 lines for $20/mo. per line!2 Sprint’s Unlimited
plan is 50% off Verizon and AT&T Unlimited rates for a family
of 5! 3 Sprint customers can get:
- Unlimited Data, Talk and Text for
$50/month for the first line and $40/month for the second line.
Lines 3 and 4 are $5 per month each.
- For a limited time, add a fifth line
for free!
- A fully featured unlimited plan that
includes HD streaming for video, music and gaming, and 10GB/month
per line of mobile hotspot data.
About Sprint
Sprint (NYSE: S) is a communications services company
that creates more and better ways to connect its customers to
the things they care about most. Sprint served 53.7 million
connections as of June 30, 2017 and is widely recognized for
developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies,
including the first wireless 4G service from a national carrier in
the United States; leading no-contract brands including Virgin
Mobile USA, Boost Mobile, and Assurance Wireless; instant national
and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1
Internet backbone. Sprint has been named to the Dow Jones
Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America for the past five years.
You can learn more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com or
www.facebook.com/sprint and www.twitter.com/sprint.
1 Based on Sprint analysis of Ookla’s Speedtest Intelligence
data from 04/01/2017 through 06/30/2017 for all mobile results.2
Savings until 9/30/18; then $60/mo. for line 1, $40/mo. for line 2
and $30/mo./line for lines 3-5. Streams video at up to HD 1080p,
music at up to 1.5mbps, gaming at up to 8mbps. Pricing shown with
AutoPay discount applied within 2 invoices. Data deprioritization
during congestion. MHS, P2P and VPN reduced to 2G speeds after
10GB/mo. Excludes taxes, surcharges, roaming, and premium content.3
Savings claim compared to Verizon Unlimited and AT&T Unlimited
Plus rates for 5 lines as of 8/18/17. Carrier features and
international options differ.
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SprintJohn Votava, 949-242-9017john.2.votava@sprint.com
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