The challenging business environment has also forced the carrier to post its first annual loss in nearly two decades since its privatization in 1995.

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If this ridiculous deal goes through, Sprint will be the only low-priced post-paid national wireless carrier left in the United States.

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Despite a saturated wireless market, where Verizon has added fewer postpaid subscribers y-o-y so far this year, the carrier managed to post its best quarter in terms of postpaid net adds in four years.

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One carrier had just returned from deployment and was in a post-cruise stand-down period.

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