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And don&#8217;t look now, but one analyst is stirring the pot with Sprint acquisition rumors.\nVia FierceWireless.]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cricket"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cricket loses customers in Q3, but gains elsewhere | Prepaid Reviews Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/prepaidreviews.com\/blog\/cricket\/cricket-loses-customers-in-q3-but-gains-elsewhere-36510\/\" \/>\n<meta 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