That, however, did not stop its net losses from mounting as it accelerated the depreciation of its outdated Nextel network and incurred other one-time expenses related to the shutdown.

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We expect the iDEN shutdown and a growing adoption of LTE to help Sprint derive a lot of savings in network expenses and increase operational efficiency.

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