Sprint Looking to Rent out Wireless Capacity to Hardware Manufacturers?

A recent report has said that Sprint (NYSE: S) has some “excessive capacity” it’s looking to offload, and hardware manufacturers may be a potential target. The Kindle e-reader is a good example of the kind of non-phone gadget with cellular capacity, but there’s plenty more: Garmin, Kodak and SanDisk were just some of the names dropped in the report. The nice thing about these kind of deals is that Sprint doesn’t have to deal with that pesky customer service aspect that they’ve been having trouble with (to be fair, they have been getting better), not to mention providing them with a new revenue stream that they so desparately need.  The question now remains, who will bite? CTIA Wireless is coming up and should give Sprint a chance to see what’s available and who’s interested.

[via Reuters]