HARLINGEN — Mobile provider Sprint plans a big increase in its retail stores and personnel in Texas, including new locations in Harlingen and Pharr, a spokesman says.
John Votava confirmed the new Harlingen and Pharr stores, which will be part of a 79-store expansion in Texas this year.
Sprint already has a strong presence in Texas, with nearly 350 retail locations in the state. The 2017 expansion will add 550 jobs to the 2,700 Texans Sprint already employs.
“This retail expansion is our largest expansion initiative in Texas since the launch of Sprint PCS stores,” John Stevens, Sprint’s regional president for central Texas, said in a statement.
In Harlingen, Sprint has a retail store at 809 Ed Carey Drive. It is one of Sprint’s 16 current retail outlets in the Rio Grande Valley.
Votava did not say where the new Sprint location in Harlingen would be located.
Most of Sprint’s growth in Texas has been in Central and East Texas.
“Total wireless data usage has grown on average more than 700 percent over the last five years in Austin, Dallas, Houston and throughout eastern Texas,” said Mike Hennigan, regional vice president at Network at Sprint.
