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Sprint has found a novel way to lure away customers from a rival: give its service away for free.

The nation's fourth-largest wireless carrier said on Thursday that as a way to "celebrate" rival AT&T's acquisition of DirecTV, it would offer any of its satellite TV customers a free year of wireless service. The offer includes unlimited voice calls, text messages and 2 gigabytes of data. The promotion begins Friday and runs through September 30.

It's the latest move in a wild summer filled with aggressive promotions, programs and cost cuts as the wireless carriers increasingly elbow each other for your business. T-Mobile, for instance, let its customers use their smartphones in Canada and Mexico without any roaming fees, while Verizon shed its practice of offering service contracts and phone subsidies. Sprint hasn't been quiet either, and turned up the heat with its latest promotion.

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Tie for worst.

We were a Comcast TV customer for many years until their customer service became intolerable in 2007.

So we switched to DirecTV. What a mistake that was. They deliberately deployed equipment that they admitted was defective, but stated that if we paid an extra monthly fee for a service package, they would come out whenever we called to fix it. But not replace it with stuff that works? Combine that with service outages every time it rained, which is daily during a six month rainy season here in S FL, and that was the end of that. We were with them for less than three months and went back to Comcast.

Sprint's improved network still ranks behind AT&T's in the most recent RootMetrics survey. It's hard to classify picking AT&T over Sprint as "settling" when the numbers simply don't back that up from the study covering the first half of 2015.

SPRINT IS STILL BEHIND AT&T IN THE SURVEY FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 2015. SOURCE: ROOTMETRICS.

AT&T does not seem amused by Sprint's attempt to "celebrate" its purchase.

"This ranks right up there with a desperate Hail Mary pass to a petite defensive lineman," AT&T spokesman Brad Burns told The Wall Street Journal. "With Sprint's network and the many asterisks on this deal, we're feeling good about our offers."

Sprint has nothing to lose

Though the company may have gotten a little out of hand in trash-talking its rival, Sprint really has nothing to lose, here. It needs to make bold efforts to get people to at least consider it as a viable option, and this one certainly counts as that.

In the long run, it probably makes more sense for DirecTV customers to go with AT&T because of the convenience of having one bill. Still, Sprint's offer keeps AT&T honest and forces it to offer a decent deal to its new customer base, because they now have a viable choice.

Sprint's comeback won't hinge on one deal, but moves like this show it at least has signs of life.

Yeah I totally have my facts wrong. Check out under "Largest US Wirless Providers": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_wireless_communications_service_providers

http://finance.yahoo.com/q;_ylc=X1MDMjE0MjQ3ODk0OARfcgMyBGZyA3VoM19maW5hbmNlX3dlYgRmcjIDc2EtZ3AEZ3ByaWQDBG5fZ3BzAzEwBG9yaWdpbgNmaW5hbmNlLnlhaG9vLmNvbQRwb3MDMQRwcXN0cgMEcXVlcnkDUywEc2FjAzEEc2FvAzE-?p=http%3A%2F%2Ffinance.yahoo.com%2Fq%3Fs%3DS%26ql%3D0&fr=uh3_finance_web&uhb=uh3_finance_vert&s=S

Get your facts straight. Sprint is #3. And catching up to at&t fast and will over take them soon. I agree Sprint has had problems over the years but has taken a fresh looks at things. Coverage will get MUCH better with Tri-Band phones.

There's a reason Sprint is the #4 wireless provider in the US: their service is shit.

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