The percentage of returned gadgets that have nothing wrong with them.
Of the $13.8 billion worth of returned products in 2007, only 5 percent were because gadgets were actually broken, according to a 2008 study.
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Sprint still owns iDEN towers AFAIK.... and quite a few CDMA towers, they only sold off like 3000 towers or something, most carriers have 20,000-30,000 towers, antennas, etc.
When I was in the Hanukkah Eve Wind Storm of 2006 in Seattle, I know the power in my neighborhood was off for 5 days, and the first evening all the mobile carriers had power, the next morning T-Mobile was down, but Sprint was still up. The next day after that (1.5 days after the storm), T-Mobile still was down, but Sprint was STILL UP.
So...having this new technology powering their cell sites is a great thing.