Light Reading confirms that T-Mobile will shutter Sprint’s network by June 30, 2022, which would be more than two years since the $26 billion merger. T-Mobile said it is retiring the network to free up resources and spectrum that will help strengthen the entire network.
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“Moving customers who are on old networks onto modern, advanced high-speed networks means they will need to have phones and devices that can tap into the latest technologies and don’t rely on older ones,” T-Mobile noted in its support page detailing the network evolution.