Kyle Busch snagged second from Keselowski, who took over the Sprint Cup Series points lead as the only driver to open the season with four top-five finishes.

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"The public peering points are by design bottlenecks, " says Scott Hiles, Sprint's network operations manager.

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Sprint, for its part, has already weighed in on the news with an official statement ( via PhoneScoop) that points to regulatory concerns of the combined company becoming almost three times the size of Sprint.

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The sprint specialist held off home rider Giacomo Nizzolo to strengthen his lead in the battle for the red points jersey.

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Helmreich points out that people with one of T-Mobile's exclusive Google Android phones or Sprint's Palm Pre are also more likely to be dissatisfied with their service if they switched providers for those phones.

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Last year, Sprint Cup Series events ranked among the top two sports of the weekend on television 20 out of 36 points event weekends, with an average of 4.1 million households and 5.8 million viewers tuned into each NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event.

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