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Sprint today announced the availability of NB-IoT on its Curiosity™ IoT platform. A complement to the nationwide Cat-M rollout, NB-IoT further expands low-power wide area network access to its dedicated, virtualized and distributed network and operating system, purpose-engineered for IoT.

MWC Los Angeles 2019 is one of the newest and fastest growing industry gatherings, and Sprint again will be among the companies exhibiting and sharing exciting news Oct. 22-24 about 5G, network technology and IoT.

Sprint and the 1Million Project Foundation announced today that Shelby County Public Schools will receive a grant valued at more than $160,000 to connect 160 high school students who don't already have access to the internet at home. The district will receive an in-kind donation to give each eligible student a free mobile hotspot and 10GB of high-speed wireless data access per month.

Sprint will begin preorder for Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL on Oct. 16 at www.sprint.com/pixel4 with full retail availability on Oct. 24. Announced today, Pixel 4 is the next generation of premium smartphones from Google. With an outstanding camera, new Google Assistant, helpful new ways to interact, and more, Pixel 4 is the most advanced Google-designed phone to date.

To assist customers in parts of California affected by the electrical companies' planned commercial power shut offs, Sprint will provide unlimited talk, text and data access to all customers in the following California Counties at no extra cost from October 9-13, 2019.

Sprint today announced its first store now has the capabilities to provide American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation for its customers. The all-new video remote interpreter leverages the Sprint Video Remote Interpreting (VRI) app and is Sprint's next step in ensuring all Deaf and Hard of Hearing customers are provided with top quality service.

Sprint today announced it was named as a Silver winner in the 40th Annual Telly Awards for "Andy's Story" – a video highlighting the positive impact of Sprint's Speech-to-Speech Relay Service. The Telly Award is the premier award honoring the finest film and video productions, groundbreaking web commercials, videos and films, and outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs.

Sprint and Duke Energy Renewables, a commercial business unit of Duke Energy, today announced a 12-year virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) for 173.3 megawatts (MW) of new wind energy. Duke Energy Renewables will build, own and operate the 182-MW Maryneal Windpower project located in Nolan County, Texas, that will come online in 2020.  

Leading telecom carriers and payment solution providers from the CBSG Consortium participated in a CBSG workshop, a two day executive working session, to conclude the commercial use-cases for mobile transactions using TBCASoft’s Cross-Carrier Payment System (CCPS) Platform.

Sprint (NYSE: S) is looking for the next class of technology startups to join its 2020 Corporate Accelerator program, focused on the power of its new True Mobile 5G network. Startups working on the next disruptive emerging technology that will lead to the development and commercialization of 5G-enabled products, applications, and solutions that deliver on the brand promise of True Mobile 5G are encouraged to apply. The program begins April 6, 2020 and will run for 90 days.