August 31, 2011 
SoSly 
With iPhone 5 leaks still going strong Sprint continues fueling the fire. The US mobile carrier has officially announced a “Strategy Update” event to be held on October 7th, where it will take place is anyone’s guess.
While this looks a bit like an iPhone 5 announcement reports are stating otherwise saying it is nothing more than a 4G based event. Others believe it could be Sprint announcing it will carry the iPhone 4 but that wouldn’t make sense as the iPhone 5 release will be sometime in mid October.
Sprint is holding a special event on Friday, October 7th to provide a “Strategy Update” on its future plans. There are plenty of strategies that need updating at Sprint, but most prominent among them is probably its 4G roadmap. Although Sprint was first out of the 4G gate with WiMAX, the accepted wisdom these days is that the carrier should start thinking about an LTE transition. Sprint has long pursued a somewhat complicated strategy of partnering with other companies to build out its wireless network instead of owning everything end-to-end, so the fact that it will need to hold a press conference to fully explain future moves is no surprise. We don’t know exactly what Sprint will announce, but it’s likely that it will involve both LightSquared and Clearwire.
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