Sprint's Q4 results show IP cost savings

Sprint Nextel revealed its Q4 earnings and 2009 overall earnings yesterday and while wireless as usual got lots of attention there were a few mentions that would interest our side of the fence. IP services were one of the bright spots in Sprint's otherwise dark news on the wireline front.

While wireline revenues of $1.3 billion for the quarter represented a 13 percent decline year-over-year and were 6 percent lower sequentially, Internet revenues grew almost 7 percent in 2009. Sprint chalked this up to strong enterprise demand for Global MPLS services and a small increase in the number of cable subscribers using Sprint's VoIP services. It is interesting to note that while migrations to IP services slowed in 2009, Internet revenue within wireline revenue increased from 34 percent in 2008 to 41 percent in 2009.

Sprint also noted that year-over-year, total operating expenses for their wireline operation improved 9 percent because of cost savings associated with IP becoming a larger percent of the wireline base.

For more:
- read the release
- check out FierceTelecom's take

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