Sprint Betting the Farm on EVO and BlackBerry Curve 8530 for Subscriber Growth?

It might seem like good news all around for struggling mobile carrier Sprint. Their press release gives the good news with a hard positive subscriber growth number.

Sprint Nextel Reports Second Quarter 2010 Results – Grew total wireless subscribers by 111,000 with best ever postpaid churn

ZDNet provides a bit of historical perspective regarding Sprint’s string of quarterly subscriber losses here.

Sprint adds 111,000 net subscribers courtesy of HTC Evo

In 2008 alone, Sprint lost 4.58 million subscribers. Their 2009 quarterly reports shows losses in every quarter.

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