According to the Wall Street Journal, Embarq will be dropping its wireless resale relationship with Sprint starting next year. That's the second such announcement in as many weeks; Qwest recently announcing they were also dumping their relationship with Sprint in favor for a new one with Verizon. When Embarq was spun off from Sprint in 2006, the company thought they'd sell a million wireless accounts, but instead had just 112,000 wireless customers at the end of last year.

Sprint lost more than a million customers in the first three months of this year due largely to poor post-Nextel merger customer support. In January, the company announced they'd be laying off 4,000 employees and closing 125 (8%) of their company-owned retail locations. When your spinoffs don't even love you, what's a wireless company to do?