25.10.2012 13:20 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Sprint sells 1.5 million iPhones, 1 million other smartphones, but makes a net loss of $767 million

Sprint's latest financials show that while the network is slowly stemming the flow of cash from its veins, it's not yet there in terms of profitability. The country's third biggest carrier is taking a hit on a $767 million net loss and an operating loss of $231 billion. The business managed to bring in service revenues of $7.3 billion, but had to eat a $397 million write-down on costs related to Network Vision and the Nextel shutdown. On the customer side, it added a further 900,000 users, sold 1.5 million iPhones and a further million "LTE smartphones" in the three month period. Naturally, it's been a busy three months for Sprint after it reported a $629 million operating loss in the second quarter of the year. Since then, it's been bought out by Japanese carrier Softbank for $20.1 billion and has

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