bnceo
join:2007-10-11
Bel Air, MD | What a Missed Opportunity How hard is it to give all Nextel users a pick of their smartphone on Sprint. Let them pick anything and get the customer. Sprint is simply saying they don't want any former Nextel customer, regardless on their pay record. Which is truly confusing. |
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| Sprint's not renowned for making smart businesses decisions. Like you said, give them a choice of free handsets, or discounted for the better models, and move them off the network.
They're going to lose customers and they're dragging their feet on being able to use the spectrum. Then again, this is the epitome of Sprint - Coming Soon. |
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taraf
join:2011-05-07
Stittsville, ON | reply to bnceo
said by bnceo:How hard is it to give all Nextel users a pick of their smartphone on Sprint. Let them pick anything and get the customer. Sprint is simply saying they don't want any former Nextel customer, regardless on their pay record. Which is truly confusing.
The point of adding the $10/mo fee is to try to encourage users to switch to something newer. They've been trying to convince the iDen customers to move over to newer offerings since they acquired Nextel, but there will always be people who think that their existing device is good enough, and who will refuse to upgrade until you force them to.
Heck, I still know people who have a pager, and prefer fax machines over e-mail. I would lay odds that the majority of customers who were originally on iDen have upgraded by now already. |
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1 edit | Contrary to popular belief, neither the fax nor pager are dead. Doctors still have pagers as they can be reached in areas cell phones don't work. Also, some other professionals have pagers, too.
The fax machine is still heavily utilized by the medical industry and corporate world. It's far more secure than email and is a direct person to person contact when sending a document. An email can be "snooped upon" if someone loses their password, etc. Thus, the fax will never be dead.
How many of the general populous uses a face or page? Not many. People still have fax machines (much more than pages), for the above reason though. |
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 jack bGone FishingPremium,MVM
join:2000-09-08
Cape Cod
kudos:1 | Almost free Upgrade $10 a month is a pretty strong incentive to move along. Sprint already turned off the iDEN service in my area and when I called to inquire about "no service" they offered to sell me similarly featured (to what I already had) Sprint-Connect PTT capable phones for a dollar.
They also offered to give a me pretty heavy discount for an upgrade to an iPhone with a 2yr commitment, which I subsequently took.
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Re: What a Missed Opportunity Sprint has been targeting Nextel users with 49.00 Iphone 4s, 29.99 galaxy S II, free Evo 3D, 100 svc credit + 150.00 upgrade discount...... |
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Until you can come up with a Fax over IP system that's as easy as laying down a stack of paper, hitting 10 numbers, the start button, and walk away Faxing not going anywhere. I've yet to install a VoIP circuit where I didn't have to configure t38 so their faxing will work.
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said by bnceo:How hard is it to give all Nextel users a pick of their smartphone on Sprint. Let them pick anything and get the customer. Sprint is simply saying they don't want any former Nextel customer, regardless on their pay record. Which is truly confusing.
They have tried carrots, and still are... but sometimes you gotta use a stick to move people. I'm SURE that when people call to complain about the stick, they'll be offered a nice juicy carrot.
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Re: Almost free Upgrade Thank you for actually posting a reasonable response. Sprint clearly IS offering these people good upgrades but most of the people in this camp don't see a reason to upgrade their device. At some point you need to incur an extra cost to speed things up. Also, in regards to the comment above about Sprint wasting this spectrum. They have cleared off enough traffic to begin using 800mhz for CDMA voice and after they completey shut down iDEN in June, they will move data services onto it. Considering they initally stated 2017 would be full shut-down, I'd say that was rather speedy. |
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Re: What a Missed Opportunity I'm a Sprint customer and I have received numerous promotional fliers with offers of deeply discounted (ie $0.99) phones - even smart phones - with and without push-to-talk service. They have been sending these to me for at least 6 months. They called me 3-4 times about buying my unused iDen phones back for $10-$25 a pop. They have been working hard to move my company off of iDen. I think, this is now another way to move customers off of iDen.
I'm just saying they have been nice before they have no other choice and turn nasty... |
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 IowaCowboyWant to go back to IowaPremium
join:2010-10-16
Springfield, MA
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| Just like the analog shutdown I was in an AT&T store around 2006 or 2007 and there was an elderly woman in there that was being told she had to upgrade her phone and she told them she did not want to upgrade her phone. Her device was a Nokia 51xx series device and I figured that it was a TDMA device (which AT&T shut down around the same time that they shut down the AMPS network).
The thing with elderly is they don't like upgrades and you have them screaming bloody murder when they are forced to upgrade (case in point, cable providers shutting down analog channels and forcing them to accept a set-top box or DTA). It's even worse when you add dementia to the equation as their memory issues make it beyond impossible to learn the new technology. Many elderly households still are using rotary phones that are still mounted on the kitchen wall as their sole communications source (even worse, they are still renting them as they had the option to continue renting or buy the device when they broke up AT&T/Bell System in 1984 and they choose the rent option which they are still doing 28 years later).
I am 29 years old and I cannot wait to get the latest gadgets. I plan on buying the iPhone 5 next week as I am now eligible for an upgrade on Verizon. I also just bought an iPad Mini (had to exchange it as the first one had several defects) and I bought it on the Verizon device installment plan.
If you read this comment and you have elderly parents or grandparents, ask if you can see a copy of their phone bill. Many times they have charges crammed on the bill and they may still be "renting" the rotary phone that they may or may not be using or may no longer have in their possession. I have heard many stories of elderly folks still being charged rent on phones 28 years after the breakup of the phone company and the amount they've paid over the years probably could buy 500 64GB iPhones at the full retail price.
Grandma has Time Warner for phone. She switched her phone to Time Warner after FairPoint came to town (she lives in Maine). I bought her a Panasonic cordless phone and she has a Samsung Convoy II on my Verizon ShareEverything plan as backup. |
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| Fuck Sprint That is all |
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Re: Just like the analog shutdown I mostly agree with you, except for the reasons many elderly people don't do upgrades. It isn't so much an issue of dementia as it is an issue of what they have fitting their needs. For instance, my parents didn't own an answering machine, and, even after I got them one, they never used it. When I asked them why, they said that, if someone really needed to reach them, they could call back if they (my parents) didn't answer the first time. Granted, this way of doing things seems terribly inefficient to me, but they'd managed just fine like this all their lives, and they saw no reason to change. It was a slower pace of life, but, if you think about it, it was less stressful to them, since they didn't have to worry about remembering to check their messages.
The same goes for cell phones. If you view them as simply a tool, like a shovel or rake, then it makes sense that some people don't want to upgrade them unless the one they have breaks. They know how the one they have works, and, as long as it does what they need it to do, they're happy. Plus, remember that folks who lived through the Great Depression and World War II were very conscious of being frugal. If they didn't absolutely need to buy something, they didn't, and that behavior stuck with many of them. |
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| well... Sprint PTT is crap as well... Here in NYC since their 3G is so unreliable it is even worst than Verizon PTT. |
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Re: What a Missed Opportunity Well..... many printers in a business environment can scan to email. I would say that is a pretty good replacement for the fax system and it pretty much eliminates the use of additional paper. |
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Sprint wouldn't have this problem today if they didn't allow those customers that were NOT happy with Sprint to move to Nextel back at the merger. Now those customers don't want to switch. With that Sprint decides to charge them extra. Sounds like Sprint will do anything to make a buck and to lose more customers.
The better question is what they're doing with the prepaid side of Boost and all those customers that still have iDEN phones. |
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Sprint was NEVER trying to move customers from Nextel to the CDMA side. They were ALLOWING customers to move free between the two. This is the result of a half-ass merger that was NEVER done correctly. Never let customers move to a network that you want to shut down.
I can tell you several major customers of Sprint's that have never moved yet. Several of them are government contracts and others are utility companies- who have well over 15,000 lines. |
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Re: well... Many parts of Ohio are the same way. |
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| reply to Skippy25
Re: What a Missed Opportunity Unless you have sensitive information in the documents. Once they are in your email, they are much less secure. |
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 hitachi369Embrace Your RightsPremium
join:2001-10-03
Grand Rapids, MI
kudos:4
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Even then, fax is more secure. Provided you are following safe data handling internally, you dont have to worry about a compromise or a 3rd party snooping (unless they are tapping your phone line.) With email it is going all over the place and anyone in between could be poking around your message. |
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