Sprint snags spectrum, and customers, from US Cellular

$800 a customer, and we'll throw in spectrum too

Sprint has bought 585,000 customers of US Cellular, but most of the $480m cash wad it will hand over to the wireless operator is for two chunks of radio spectrum that will enable Sprint to roll out LTE in previously unserved markets.…

via The Register - Networks

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