Filed by Sprint Corporation
Pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and deemed filed pursuant to Rule 14a-12
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
Subject Company: Sprint Corporation
Commission File No.: 001-04721
The following
communication was made available by Michel Combes, Chief Executive Officer of Sprint, on Twitter:
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@SprintBusiness president @JanGeld at #CES2019. @Sprints #5G is launching later this year, and its going to be awesome for consumers.
President of Sprint business tells us about 5G,
T-Mobile,
robots
NEWS BY ERIC ZEMAN JANUARY 10, 2019
Latency is the most
powerful aspect of forthcoming mobile 5G networks, says Jan Geldmacher, president of Sprint Business, and may usher in the true age of the internet of things.
Smartphones became truly powerful after the dawn of 4G networks. The improved speed and capacity of LTE 4G connections gave phones the juice to power myriad
applications and services. It was a watershed moment.
Now, nearly a decade later, the industry has reached another landmark: the launch of 5G. Its
easy to overhype 5G, and Geldmacher didnt want to overdo it, but its safe to say hes excited about the possibilities.
Latency
the time between when a device makes a request over the network and receives a response falls in the 10 milliseconds to
100-millisecond
range in LTE 4G networks. Along with gigabit speeds, one of the
key improvements of 5G is to drop latency down to one to five milliseconds. This may not sound like much of an improvement, but it is.
Think robotics and
automation. Geldmacher said Sprint is working with Boston Dynamics to see how well robots can be controlled remotely. The low latency allows a controller in Boston to safely operate a robot located in Pittsburgh, for example. This isnt yet
possible with 4G. Similarly, Sprint is working with a handful of companies in Greenville, South Carolina, on autonomous vehicle technology, and in Peachtree Corner, Georgia, on
air-based
projects.
With latency essentially eliminated, 5G represents a paradigm shift in what things can do.