Well it looks like Verizon isn’t the only wireless carrier that fires people over leaked information. Sprint has fired the employee responsible for leaking an estimate to XDA developers in which the now ex-employee posted:
“according to sprint we as a [company] have sold 66,483 theres a whole bunch of stores though that dont have any more inventory i dont think any major city sprint doesâ€
Although to many this comment went unnoticed, SprintHQ was paying close attention. Sprint launched the HTC Evo on June 4th and then easily touted the first day sales record as huge, even breaking previous records from devices launched like the Palm Pre and the Samsung Instinct. Days later Sprint recanted their figures as an error or unofficial device sales.
It is said that the employee who leaked these figures might have been using the Sprint store inventory and did not take into account outside sales from Radio-Shack, Wal-mart, Best Buy etc… But nonetheless, soon after these figures went public unofficially, Sprint had deployed an internal team tracing this employee to his Florida store where this employee was brought in and terminated on the spot.
Source: MobileCrunch
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