T-Mobile Will Leave Sprint in the Dust

While AT&T (T Quote) and Verizon (VZ Quote) slug it out for first place, Sprint (S Quote) is vying against T-Mobile for the last place among the top four wireless telcos.

Sprint was nearly undone by the Nextel merger, which took a toll on the company, its subscribers and its profits last year. This year, Sprint's recovery hopes are pinned largely on Palm's (PALM Quote) Pre, the hotly anticipated touchscreen smartphone.

No. 4 player Deutsche Telekom's (DT Quote) T-Mobile USA has been the sector sleeper steadily gaining customers through inexpensive calling plans and a few fun phones. ...