| $40B Fortune 50s company They are a $40B F50s company (bigger than Intel, Coco-Cola Apple, Disney) and will pull through. Even if they lost millions more customers, they'd still be an F100 company. Companies this big don't go away (see Chrysler) and have room/time to figure out how they must change.
It's the iDen/Nextel side losing major customers. The CDMA side has lower churn (1.6%) than ATT (1.7%). They have got to get rid of the iDen network ASAP.
WiMAX is their future differentiation and they need to make it happen. |
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| said by xenophon:They are a $40B F50s company (bigger than Intel, Coco-Cola Apple, Disney) and will pull through. Even if they lost millions more customers, they'd still be an F100 company. Companies this big don't go away (see Chrysler) and have room/time to figure out how they must change. It's the iDen/Nextel side losing major customers. The CDMA side has lower churn (1.6%) than ATT (1.7%). They have got to get rid of the iDen network ASAP. WiMAX is their future differentiation and they need to make it happen. If they want customers off the iden p2talk, they're gonna have to give customers free phones and not lock them into a 2 year contract to get there.. otherwise Verizon is the clear winner & beneficiary of Sprint's customer loss. |
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Sprint needs to end Cdma, Iden , and Wimax. And concentrate on LTE. Then push for the most cutting edge phones, and price undercuts. Otherwise Google might have come in a do it. When LTE rolls in ATT Verizon, Tmobile will have cellphone providers making phones at volume discounts. Sprint will have a properity mess. |
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 en102Canadian, eh?
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said by xenophon:It's the iDen/Nextel side losing major customers. Better get some more customers on iDEN then 
AT&T's churn in q4 was pretty good
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2.7 million net gain in wireless subscribers, best-ever quarterly increase by any U.S. wireless company; 70.1 million wireless subscribers at year's end.
Strong Gross Adds, Reduced Churn. AT&T also delivered the industry's best-ever quarterly gross wireless subscriber additions, which totaled 6.0 million, up 9.6 percent versus the year-earlier fourth quarter. Total average monthly subscriber churn was 1.7 percent, down 10 basis points versus the year-earlier quarter, and postpaid churn was 1.2 percent, down 30 basis points from the fourth quarter of 2006.
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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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The iDen side, (why can't people just say Nextel?) was the lucrative side of the business. It had a niche' market, a long standing customer base, low churn and a very low bad debt burden. It was the merger that sent the Nextel Customer base running for other options.
The merger, in my opinion, was a complete and total mistake on Sprint's part. |
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