{"id":3998,"date":"2009-02-20T06:09:17","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T10:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hothardware.com\/News\/Sprint-Nextel-Soars-Over-Pre-Exclusivity"},"modified":"2009-02-20T06:09:17","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T10:09:17","slug":"sprint-nextel-soars-over-pre-exclusivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=3998","title":{"rendered":"Sprint Nextel Soars Over Pre Exclusivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sprint released their Q4 2008 results on Thursday. It wasn&#8217;t pretty. Yet their stock soared nearly 20%. Why? Sprint lost 1.3 million net wireless customers in the quarter. Overall, in 2008, Sprint lost 4 million customers. At the same time, in Q4 2008, Sprint had a net loss of $1.62 billion, or $0.57 a share, on revenue of $8.43 billion. Yet the stock rose $0.54 a share, 19.93%. Once again, why? The Palm Pre, and a rumor, that&#8217;s why. An anonymous source told CNBC that Sprint has exclusivity on the Palm Pre until<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sprint released their Q4 2008 results on Thursday. It wasn&#8217;t pretty. Yet their stock soared nearly 20%. Why? Sprint lost 1.3 million net wireless customers in the quarter. Overall, in 2008, Sprint lost 4 million customers. At the same time, in Q4 2008, Sprint had a net loss of $1.62 billion, or $0.57 a share, on revenue of $8.43 billion. Yet the stock rose $0.54 a share, 19.93%. Once again, why? The Palm Pre, and a rumor, that&#8217;s why. An anonymous source told CNBC that Sprint has exclusivity on the Palm Pre until <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=3998\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}