Sprint to help customers understand their phones (AP)

NEW YORK - Sprint Nextel Corp . is making a big push to help customers understand their phones, creating a formal program to make store employees available to explain their products and set them up for buyers.

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The campaign to be announced Tuesday is the first official program for in-person help by a cell carrier, but is similar to moves in the wider consumer electronics industry to demystify gadgets through one-on-one contact. Sprint closed all of its 1,219 stores on Sunday Aug. 17 to train its employees for the "Ready Now" program. The goal is that customers should leave stores with their phones "completely set up and personalized," said Kim Dixon, Sprint's senior vice president of stores.

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