However, due to its popularity, the iPhone comes with huge subsidies that the operator offers their customers in exchange for a long-term contract. Sprint therefore had to suffer short-term hit to margins, such as losing money on every iPhone sold. We believe that the market is very short term this discount margin hit while not taking into account the long-term positive impact on ARPU levels.
Sprint currently postpaid subscribers losses can also be connected with the bet fails on network push-to-talk is obtained when buying the iDEN Nextel, as well as the bet on the 4 G networks expensive WiMAX Clearwire. Verizon and AT