| Desperation on Sprint's part With Boost being owned by Sprint, this smacks of desperation on Sprint's part. They're likely doing this with Boost instead of Sprint to hide the fact a bit and not to devalue the Sprint brand (as if it could be devalued any more than it has already been), but it still means they're desperate for subs.
I'm willing to bet that, sooner or later, you're going to see Sprint become an unlimited carrier like MetroPCS and Cricket. Either that, or they're going to sell out to another company. |
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| They'll become an unlimited company before they sell. It would help their cash flow as the money is upfront for everything. That's how all the rest keep cash. They don't have anyone not paying their bills.
T-Mobile's FlexPay service is the same way. It's a great service and should catch on by other carriers. $41 after taxes in Ohio for 300-whenever minutes, MyFav5 plus everything else the customers get. Plus no contract. Why would anyone want to get a contract when you can get it without and pay the same. |
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said by ISurfTooMuch:With Boost being owned by Sprint, this smacks of desperation on Sprint's part. They're likely doing this with Boost instead of Sprint to hide the fact a bit and not to devalue the Sprint brand (as if it could be devalued any more than it has already been), but it still means they're desperate for subs. I'm willing to bet that, sooner or later, you're going to see Sprint become an unlimited carrier like MetroPCS and Cricket. Either that, or they're going to sell out to another company. Sprint is basically two companies in one, they have their CDMA side and their iDEN side which is considered the Nextel brand. The CDMA side of the business has been strong and remained strong and is constantly gaining customers. The iDEN side, previous Nextel customers, have been fleeing in large quantities over the past several years.
I believe this is why Boost working with Sprint is able to offer a pricing point so low. I imagine with the large chunk of iDEN customers gone along with a lot of money Sprint has put into upgrading the iDEN network there is a lot of unused capacity. Might as well make use of it, and this will be a good way to do just that.
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We have two political parties in America. One is evil, and the other is stupid. Sometimes, they get together and do something both evil and stupid. That's called bipartisanship. |
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| I don't recall Spring being strong and actually losing customers. their customer base is treated as one.
The only way Sprint keeps those customers that have is if you change your rate plan you sign a new contract and they fail to tell you that.
And as far as upgrading the iDEN network is went to shit and still is after Sprint took over. I signed up before that deal was announced and stayed. Only to see Nextel suffer. Changed to Sprint and all of a sudden the network was great again but lost a LOT of coverage because they moved equipment. |
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