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If you were planning to treat your family to a trip down to the nearest Sprint store this morning, you might need to find alternative entertainment.  Apparently the carrier is closing all of its stores, including licenced dealers, from 9am PST to 11am; the reason given is that they'll be watching a webcast.

It's unclear whether this has anything to do with recent job losses and the shift of Sprint management back to Kansas that was announced earlier this month.

Sprint has made 4,000 staff redundant since CEO Dan Hesse was appointed last December, and 125 retail locations have been closed; Hesse described the cutbacks as "creat[ing] a single, performance-based culture."