Time4aNAP
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join:2007-04-09
Des Plaines, IL
| reply to inteller
Re: Ion.
said by inteller  :Sprint ION was way ahead of its time. It only failed because people didn't completely understand what it could do. Bull.
I heard the news of Sprint ION while I was in a backwater town (as far as Internet access goes) in Arkansas, and immediately rushed to place my order. At the time I had a beautiful line of sight path to their antenna atop the Sears Tower. I thought that I was set.
I have never heard so many excuses why the installer allegedly couldn't set me up. My plan was to locate my antenna on the inside of a window with the great view. "No that won't work" they said. Bull. The STL antenna for one of the TV stations that I worked for was mounted behind a window inside of the Sears Tower, no less! When I secured permission for roof access, they balked again, citing liability issues, with the potential for high winds to tear loose their cabling. Never mind the fact that the existing MATV cabling had been there for decades with no such problems.
The bottom line is that Sprint, or whoever Sprint hired to do the installations, was absolutely determined to prevent the deployment of this product. After three months of bogus excuses for not signing me up, they nailed the lid on their own coffin by claiming that I "was too late", that they had saturated the market already. When I pointed out that I was literally the first person in this market to apply for service, they had no reply. Later on Sprint announced that ION service was discontinued.
Imagine my surprise when, years later I befriended a satisfied ION customer whose allegedly "terminated" ION service was still going strong, with no end in sight.
I'm reminded of a TV commercial that used a line "we didn't plan to fail; we just failed to plan." Well somebody at Sprint is hard at work, planning on making Sprint fail. I wish that someone would find the jackass and fire him. |
