"On May 5 came news that Sprint's subscriber exodus will
accelerate as phone company Qwest Communications (Q) switches to
Verizon Wireless to provide mobile-phone calling to more than
800,000 of its subscribers. The decision to drop Sprint is just
the latest blow for a cellular company that has stumbled almost
continuously since its $35 billion acquisition of Nextel in
2005..."
Business Week article:
http://www.starturl.com/Sprint