Sprint is transferring day-to-day operations of their network to a new division of Ericsson. Here's the article in the KC Star, Sprint's hometown newspaper:
http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/1315926.html

They try to slap a lotta lipstick on this sick pig in the article so as to not worry the locals or remaining customer base, but it's really just another sign of how serious problems really are at Sprint. They've laid off so many people to stay alive and are so incompetent they don't trust themselves to run their own operations anymore, so they're contracting that out to real professionals.

Probably only a matter of time before Sprint is sold for their most valuable remaining asset - not their lousy network or dwindling customers, but the large amount of prime bandwidth they control. Kinda sad...