At the end of the sprint, the team presents its completed work to the project owner and the project owner uses the criteria established at the sprint planning meeting to either accept or reject the work. In the Scrum agile framework, a sprint planning meeting is an event that establishes the product development goal and plan for the upcoming sprint, based on the team’s review of its product backlog. The Sprint is a container of all other events. The FCC's acting chairwoman Mignon Clyburn and commissioner Ajit Pai both gave statements vociferously supporting the acquisition, saying the deal "serve[s] the public interest". Since July 2013, Sprint Music Plus app is managed by OnMobile Global, a company headquartered in Bangalore India and a global leader in mobile entertainment services. [3] The company also offered wireless voice, messaging, and broadband services through its various subsidiaries under the Boost Mobile and Open Mobile brands and wholesale access to its wireless networks to mobile virtual network operators. Learn more. Sprint has begun to roll out VoLTE, although the deployment is currently limited to certain markets. [76], In 2007, Sprint launched Ethernet services over its IP/MPLS network to an initial 40-markets. Sprints are time-boxed periods of one week to one month, during which a product owner, scrum master, and scrum team work to complete a specific product addition. A Sprint is timeboxed, and it has defined goals, so gold plating becomes difficult. [29], Sprint Corporation entered the Canadian market in the early 1990s as a reseller of bulk long-distance telephone lines that it bought from domestic companies. The shorter the Sprint length the faster the feedback loop. Virgin Mobile USA, L.P. was a wholly owned subsidiary of Sprint Corporation and provided nationwide, prepaid wireless voice, messaging, and broadband data products and services to customers in the contiguous United States under the Virgin Mobile, payLo, and "Assurance Wireless Brought to You by Virgin Mobile" brands. The sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers. [citation needed] Top Nextel Executives began leaving the company immediately after the merger closed. 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