upidstay
@mchsi.com
| Killer Instinct
Sprint is just doing what any company that is fighting for its life would do, and that is pulling out all the stops.
Though in a different business but kind of in a similiar situation, some say Intel do the same with its Core 2 Duo
processors when the Athlon 64 FX line was giving 'em hell.
Now its Intel back on top and AMD struggling. I know this may be only a stereotype, but it seems Sprint would be pretty desparate for a telco to embrace a fully open network which is in contrast to the business philoaopy of
what we usually see out of the telcos. |
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| said by upidstay :
Sprint is just doing what any company that is fighting for its life would do, and that is pulling out all the stops.
Well they are not at a point of fighting for their life. They are a $40B company, bigger than Intel, Apple, CocaCola and Disney. They could lose millions of customers and likely still be bigger than those companies. They aren't anywhere near bankruptcy. They are just a big ole company that isn't growing (actually it's just the Nextel side shrinking). They are big enough to eventually turn around.
Sprint has always been relatively more open than others... open BlueTooth and unlimited EVDO are examples. The Xohm openness is no surprise, but it's hardly a differentiation.
Now WiMAX in itself is the differentiation. WiMAX came from IEEE, which brought us the ubiquity of ethernet. LTE comes from 3GPP, the controlling telcom industry. WiMAX will be on all kinds of consumer products. They just drop in an IEEE compliant WiMAX chipset. LTE likely will be limited to devices mostly controlled by the telcom industry. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
1 edit | True that the company is technically worth billions, however
their stock price is in the toilet, making them a target for a takeover, being at less than $9/share
»www.businessweek.com/magazine/co···8185.htm
Canada = Hollywood North |
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| Yeah, a takeover or merger is possible, but it's not like they'll go away. They're just too big.
It's also not likely that a US telcom company will merge with them. Maybe a foreign one, especially given exchange rates. But if that happens the Sprint US operations will still essentially be intact. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | If anything, I'd expect a foreign deal like Vodafone/Verizon Wireless, possibly with a Korean or Japanese CDMA player
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Canada = Hollywood North |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | I'm sure if Sprint was a GSM carrier Vodafone would have tried to snap them up by now- it's no secret they're unhappy with their current deal with Verizon as to Verizon Wireless. |
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17 | reply to en102
British Telecom and SK Telecom in Korea have been mentioned as possible suitors in the recent past. |
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