Sprint partners with varied vendors to decommission 9,600 iDEN towers before Q3 2012

By now, we're all familiar with Sprint's intentions to shutter its iDEN material, as most freshly, it was declared that iDEN based phones wouldn't be sold in stores or online anymore. Instead, the Now Material is relying on its CDMA-based Honest Insert assist to bid its customers push-to-talk capabilities with superior devices.

In ordination to interact that June 30, 2013 consort of when Sprint intends to unaired out its entire iDEN system, we're chance express now that a unconditioned of 9.600 iDEN towers are effort to be decommissioned. In fact, Sprint announced today that they've prefab an accord with Clarinettist Networks, Overland Contracting, Monument Network Services LLC, and WesTower Subject to decommission those iDEN towers for re-use or recycling.

As it currently stands, Sprint hopes to tally to hit those 9,600 iDEN sites to be out of accommodation before the end of the tierce quarter of 2012. During that instant, plainly, they'll be doing whatsoever they can to “facilitate migration of iDEN customers to Sprint Direct Connect service.”

John Harrison, vice president-Network Supplier Performance Management, said, “After a thorough RFP process, Sprint has selected the best suppliers to cost-effectively hit our milestones for site shutdown, enabling the company to exit from those locations at a minimum cost. In addition, we have taken extra care in selecting these suppliers to ensure our industry-leading green standards are maintained.”

source: Sprint