It may surprise you that any part of Sprint’s network was still working as recently as last week. T-Mobile formally acquired the company in April 2020, including all of its spectrum and network towers, which will be reconfigured for 5G. When T-Mobile began shutting down Sprint’s equipment in March, the 3G CDMA network was the first to vanish. It had planned to close the network at the end of 2021, but the timeline was pushed back following a heated argument about anti-competitive activity in which Dish chief Charlie Ergen referred to T-Mobile as a Grinch.
