BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
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Re: What's wrong with Sprint?
said by EveryName  :AFAIK, Sprint has better service than AT&T, albeit smaller. What's wrong with going with a quality, small company? Um let's see. LESS customers. Who cares how great the serivce is if you can't get it. I can't get Sprint in my area. They don't seem in hurry to want me as a customer. So Verizon gets my business. |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| said by BF69 :said by EveryName :AFAIK, Sprint has better service than AT&T, albeit smaller. What's wrong with going with a quality, small company? Um let's see. LESS customers. Who cares how great the serivce is if you can't get it. I can't get Sprint in my area. They don't seem in hurry to want me as a customer. So Verizon gets my business. I had Verizon and their customer service was condescending to say the least. Just because they are the biggest, doesn't make them the best. |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| said by moonpuppy :said by BF69 :said by EveryName :AFAIK, Sprint has better service than AT&T, albeit smaller. What's wrong with going with a quality, small company? Um let's see. LESS customers. Who cares how great the serivce is if you can't get it. I can't get Sprint in my area. They don't seem in hurry to want me as a customer. So Verizon gets my business. I had Verizon and their customer service was condescending to say the least. Just because they are the biggest, doesn't make them the best. I'm not sure which part of
willing to offer me service > not willing to offer me service
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
·Verizon Online DSL
| said by BF69 :I'm not sure which part of willing to offer me service > not willing to offer me service you don't get? Let's see. Altel is not available in my area but had great reviews (and was gobbled up by Verizon.) Just because AlTel was not willing to offer me service doesn't mean they were a bad company. Judging a few of their plans, I would have signed with them too.
Sprint is available in most areas as is ATT, T-Mobile and Verizon. There are some places Verizon is not as is there are places other companies don't service.
My statement still stands. Verizon might be in a lot of places but their customer service was horrible IMHO. |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| said by moonpuppy :said by BF69 :I'm not sure which part of willing to offer me service > not willing to offer me service you don't get? Let's see. Altel is not available in my area but had great reviews (and was gobbled up by Verizon.) Just because AlTel was not willing to offer me service doesn't mean they were a bad company. Judging a few of their plans, I would have signed with them too. Sprint is available in most areas as is ATT, T-Mobile and Verizon. There are some places Verizon is not as is there are places other companies don't service. My statement still stands. Verizon might be in a lot of places but their customer service was horrible IMHO. so does mine. Did I say Spint was "bad"? no I said they have far fewer cusotmers and thus making an exclusive deal with them makes little sense if you goal is to attract as many customers as possible. |
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gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA
·Cruzio Internet
| said by BF69 :said by moonpuppy :said by BF69 :I'm not sure which part of willing to offer me service > not willing to offer me service you don't get? Let's see. Altel is not available in my area but had great reviews (and was gobbled up by Verizon.) Just because AlTel was not willing to offer me service doesn't mean they were a bad company. Judging a few of their plans, I would have signed with them too. Sprint is available in most areas as is ATT, T-Mobile and Verizon. There are some places Verizon is not as is there are places other companies don't service. My statement still stands. Verizon might be in a lot of places but their customer service was horrible IMHO. so does mine. Did I say Spint was "bad"? no I said they have far fewer cusotmers and thus making an exclusive deal with them makes little sense if you goal is to attract as many customers as possible. If you dont hate sprint why do you want them to go under?
This phone will be launched on other networks in the future, as they announced they have a GSM version coming soon.
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
·Verizon Online DSL
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said by BF69 :so does mine. Did I say Spint was "bad"? no I said they have far fewer cusotmers and thus making an exclusive deal with them makes little sense if you goal is to attract as many customers as possible. This is what you said earlier in this thread.
said by BF69 :Um let's see. LESS customers. Who cares how great the serivce is if you can't get it. I can't get Sprint in my area. They don't seem in hurry to want me as a customer. So Verizon gets my business. You implied Sprint did not care about you simply because they chose not to service your area and that Verizon does.
As for the exclusive part, it's all about most bang for the buck. Verizon had the opportunity for the iPhone but said no because they wanted more money than Apple was willing to let go. They went to ATT and that seems to have paid off since half of the number ports to the iPhone were from Verizon.
»Half Of New iPhone Owners Came From Verizon
Imagine what would have happened if the iPhone went to Sprint.
T-Mobile has already signed with Danger (their Sidekick line which is now owned by Microsoft) and with Google and Android (with their G1 phone.) All carriers have Blackberries to a point as well as an assortment of Windows Mobile phones. If this new thing takes off, it could go well for Sprint and Palm. |
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Matt
Gone playing Dragon Age Origins
Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
·North State Commun..
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said by BF69 :said by moonpuppy :said by BF69 :I'm not sure which part of willing to offer me service > not willing to offer me service you don't get? Let's see. Altel is not available in my area but had great reviews (and was gobbled up by Verizon.) Just because AlTel was not willing to offer me service doesn't mean they were a bad company. Judging a few of their plans, I would have signed with them too. Sprint is available in most areas as is ATT, T-Mobile and Verizon. There are some places Verizon is not as is there are places other companies don't service. My statement still stands. Verizon might be in a lot of places but their customer service was horrible IMHO. so does mine. Did I say Spint was "bad"? no I said they have far fewer cusotmers and thus making an exclusive deal with them makes little sense if you goal is to attract as many customers as possible. Sprint has 20-30 million customers and they are the number 3 carrier. Sorry you live in the middle of nowhere Tennessee and it doesn't make sense for them to deploy service to your area. |
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GLIMMER
join:2004-01-17
Urbana, IL | Last time I checked sprintnextel had 50.3 million subs and att had 64 million and Verizon has 74 million+ with alltel |
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
Premium
join:2005-05-20
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said by BF69 :said by EveryName :AFAIK, Sprint has better service than AT&T, albeit smaller. What's wrong with going with a quality, small company? Um let's see. LESS customers. Who cares how great the serivce is if you can't get it. I can't get Sprint in my area. They don't seem in hurry to want me as a customer. So Verizon gets my business. And I can't get T-Mobile in my area.. I guess they hate me like Sprint hates you. Sad you feel singled out. Bet its a good thing you have other providers to chose from, huh?
Maybe Sprint asked for the status as a way TO get customers. You clearly have no concept of how a business operates. You think AT&T taking the iPhone with all the BS requirements that goes with it was due to their size? Do you think that the iPhone didn't contribute in part to their growth? sheep will flock to toys.. maybe this is the toy that people will go for.. there are palm fans out there just as there is crack-berry fans and the iPhone fans. |
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
Premium
join:2005-05-20 | reply to BF69
DirecTV was a drop in the bucket compared to cable but they signed up with NFL.. now look where its taken them.
I don't think you get it. |
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KAD Imaging
Just Shoot It
Premium
join:2002-09-21
Hialeah, FL
·AT&T Southeast
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Hmm...far fewer seems an odd statement considering as of July '07 Sprint trailed AT&T by 3.5% in market share... (little research always helps  )
And as far as the quality...yes, their customer service sucks but frankly 90% of the off-shored service sucks as a matter of consequence. Their EVDO hauls comparatively and costs the least of all carriers.
»www.usatoday.com/tech/wireless/2···ne_N.htm |
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