Sprint Corporation is telecommunications holding from Kansas, Unites States. Opened as Brown Telephone Company in 1899, company witnessed all technological breakthroughs and world wars of XX century. Great Depression hurt company badly, but its assets were preserved under new legal entity. Only in 1986 it received its current name and began developing wireless market. After financially unsuccessful merge with Nextel company entered downward spiral and was eventually bought by Japanese investors SoftBank. Sprint was always distinguished from other American service providers by having a great variety of client programs suited for geography and demographics of particular area. Sprint Rural Alliance is a great program of crowd-transmitting of signals, and Bring Your Own Device is a socially responsible program aimed at reducing the number of perfectly working devices being thrown away due to appearance of more modern models. Of course, many smartphone manufacturers take part in Sprint’s offers – these are Apple, Samsung, ZTE and others.
