Sprint announced a commitment to create or bring back to America 5,000 jobs. The company anticipates these jobs will support a variety of functions across the organization including its Customer Care and Sales teams. Sprint will begin discussions immediately with its business partners, states and cities to determine the right locations in the U.S. to create these jobs. The company expects to fulfill this commitment by the end of its fiscal year 2017 and will provide additional details when they are available.
'We are excited to work with President-Elect Trump and his Administration to do our part to drive economic growth and create jobs in the U.S.,' said Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure. 'We believe it is critical for business and government to partner together to create more job opportunities in the U.S. and ensure prosperity for all Americans.'
Sprint is mostly owned by Japan's SoftBank, which has already announced a commitment to major U.S. investments, but clarified that not all the jobs would come from overseas. In 2013, SoftBank paid $22 billion for 80 percent of Sprint. The company announced a ""commitment to create or bring back to America 5,000 jobs,"" although it has no specific plans yet.
The Sprint announcement gave President-Elect Donald Trump another opportunity to claim credit for job creation, and he referenced the December 19 announcement by satellite broadband firm OneWeb for 3,000 jobs over the next four years. Those jobs are as a result of a $1.2 billion investment from SoftBank, whose chief executive Masayoshi Son met Trump earlier this month and pledged to invest $50 billion in the US economy and create 50,000 jobs.
