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Sprint is saddled with long-term debt of more than $32 billion and has also signaled that its capital investment is going to double, as it seeks to build out its network to compete against T-Mobile, Verizon Communications Inc and AT&T Inc. Analysts have warned Sprint will struggle to handle this burden on its own unless it cuts a deal with T-Mobile soon.
"With a significant step-up in their network capex of an incremental $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion year-on-year beginning in fiscal 2018, it is hard to see Sprint coming close to free cash flow breakeven, much less cash flow positive, in the foreseeable future," MoffettNathanson LLC analyst Craig Moffett wrote in a note.
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Sounds like Sprint has no choice but to merge.
