We asked Mark Chall, Sprint’s director of cable services, how Sprint and the cable companies have solved some of the issues new entrants face, and how they work together to serve the business market.

In a $1.1 billion deal, Nortel Networks Corp. will supply equipment to Sprint Corp. for converting its existing local telephone service circuit-switch network to a packet-based system, the two ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Sprint Local Telecommunications Division has signed a $1.1 billion contract to move its local telephone network covering 18 states to an all-packet architecture, using equipment ...

NEW YORK (AP) _ In a $1.1 billion upgrade announced Monday, Sprint Corp. will begin to transform its entire telephone network so all voice calls are transmitted in ``packets,'' resembling how data is ...