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join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | reply to xenophon
Re: Last hope for Sprint I don't understand this argument- the Nextel side is a very important part of Sprint Nextel Corp.'s business.
The big question around Sprint is the iPhone. If the 3G iPhone is a huge hit, as all media sources are assuming (the "conspiracy" the VZ CEO was talking about), then all the non-at&t wireless carriers are going to be under some big pressure. Even though Sprint PCS isn't suffering the same way as Nextel is, they're lagging behind the rest of the "big boys", and so have the most to lose.
Sprint won't disappear overnight, though, that's for sure. At this point though one wonders if they're going to become an easy target for some overseas carrier (while the US market is slowing, it's still a growth market compared to Europe or Japan, for example)... but if that was going to happen, why hasn't it already? My guess is CDMA- if Sprint was a GSM carrier they'd likely be long gone. |
