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This isn't true at all. The name "Sprint" wasn't chosen until the 70s and the initial business was alternative long-distance carrier, not a railway cell phone.

See: https://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/news/2022/05/23/je...

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They had the famous pin drop commercials!

I guess this is the person who posted recently about their very sad hobby of intentionally spreading misinformation on here and Wikipedia.

Mea culpa, searching for the actual original name “Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telecommunications” pulls up a number of interesting stories about the origins of the company running telegraph lines along the rail tracks. Example: https://www.npr.org/2012/10/15/162963607/sprint-born-from-ra...

However I do not see anything resembling cell phone service happening until the 1970s.

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