Recent reports have revealed that the Nextel network of Sprint will not be shutting down completely until 2013, as the firm is instead working on switching off the iDEN network.

Sprint, which is offering the iPhone for the first time, has said that record demand for the new iPhone 4S gave the carrier its best ever sales day for a device family across web, retail and telesales channels.

Fared Adib, product chief at Sprint, said that demand for the iPhone 4S, which is the first iPhone available through Sprint, went beyond the company's expectations.

Joining the US Department of Justice (DoJ) in taking the legal route against AT&T’s proposed $39-billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA, Sprint Nextel recently filed its own lawsuit to block the AT&T/T-Mobile merger.

Sprint has instructed its employees to remain mum on the upcoming iPhone 5, a leaked internal memo revealed.

Rumors have long been swirling that Sprint could get the fifth-generation iPhone, and the leaked memo has instructed its employees not to speculate about Sprint getting the much-awaited phone. This led many to believe that Sprint has some to conceal.

Currently, Apple’s iPhone is available only on the airwaves of AT&T and Verizon.

According to a Tuesday report in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the popular Apple iPhone will land on the Sprint network for the first time in mid-October – when the next generation of the handset, iPhone 5, be released.

The WSJ report also says that Sprint may apparently also offer the current iPhone model - iPhone 4 - around the same time.

In a Friday statement, Sprint announced its decision to discontinue the sale of the 4G version of the Research In Motion (RIM)’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet on its Wi-Max network.