 kapilThe Kapil
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1 edit | You don't say The only one who ever thought the merger made sense are "analysts" who get a hard-on at the mention of mergers, synergies, acquisitions, LBOs etc.
No one in their right mind thought this was going to happen. It didn't make any sense.
Sprint uses CDMA, and is still trying to digest Nextel's iDEN network. T-Mobile uses GSM....on a different frequency than its parent company's networks elsewhere around the globe.
Sprint has some sensitive government and large corporation contract that have national security and industrial espionage implications.
There's no regulatory will for another competition-reducing mega-merger.
So, no matter how much Craig Moffett et al try to will this non-sensical merger wet dream into existence, it ain't happenin'.
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| Re: You don't say? But Sprint's stock is only down 1.5% after a 10% up the day before. Maybe Sprint leaked a rumor to goose the stock price. |
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Re: You don't say Never say Never.
People were yelling the same shit about Sprint and Nextel merging and swearing it would never happen. Look how that turned out... |
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Re: You don't say? said by fAcEtIOUs:But Sprint's stock is only down 1.5% after a 10% up the day before. Maybe Sprint leaked a rumor to goose the stock price. What I was thinking too..
Poor stock? Lets start a merger rumor to drive it up! |
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rayeger
join:2003-07-05
North Royalton, OH | Go back and see who made the most from buying before and selling the stock after, and there will be the person who "leaked" that rumor. With any luck that person will be put in jail for a long time..... |
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Re: You don't say If this rumor ever came true, I can't see T-Mobile switching to Sprint's CDMA technology. It would have to be the other way around, since that's the prominent technology elsewhere around the world, including T-Mobile's overseas operations.
That would leave Verizon as the only major CDMA player left in the U.S. At that point, maybe Verizon would be thinking "if you can't beat them, join them."
As far as Sprint's other corporate/government business, companies always go out of business or merge, and technologies change. Nothing is static. This would all evolve.
Anyway, since this ain't happening, no need to worry about it now. |
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CDMA, for all intensive purposes, is dead. |
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Plus Sprint still operates a lot of fiber, certain customer premises equipment and long distance calling for GSA. They still have a lot of backhaul services running in the background for various customers too. |
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LTE is CDMA. |
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Haven't you guys figured it out yet?
It's not about technologies at the moment, it's all about spectrum!
Buying Spring for a piddly 10b will give T-Mobile much more spectrum it needs when it launches 4G!
GSM/CDMA/iDEN will all converge/be phased out in their 4G network, LTE!
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join:2002-04-05
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kudos:1 | reply to fifty nine
A. LTE isn't CDMA2000 the protocol
B. LTE isn't CDMA the modulation method »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-UTRA |
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 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to fifty nine
Not really... its more like OFDM. |
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said by kapil:Sprint has some sensitive government and large corporation contract that have national security and industrial espionage implications. You know I always noticed Jack Bauer using a Sprint phone. |
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Intents and purposes. Also VZW has stated that they will continue to use CDMA for voice until 2018-2020. Not so dead... They will be using LTE for data only. |
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said by CTU :said by kapil:Sprint has some sensitive government and large corporation contract that have national security and industrial espionage implications. You know I always noticed Jack Bauer using a Sprint phone. Jack Bauer is also fictional, along with Sprint's coverage.
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said by Gbcue:Haven't you guys figured it out yet? It's not about technologies at the moment, it's all about spectrum! Buying Spring for a piddly 10b will give T-Mobile much more spectrum it needs when it launches 4G! GSM/CDMA/iDEN will all converge/be phased out in their 4G network, LTE! Haven't you figured it out yet? Buying Sprint would cost a great deal more than $10B. Their market cap is well over $11B. The shareholders would almost assuredly demand a premium for the stocks. Plus they would have to assume Sprint's debt which is @ $21B. So that $10B figure is a pipe dream as is this alleged T-Mo/Sprint union. |
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join:2008-02-13
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Early LTE devices will be data-focused devices like aircards... this is how EV-DO started out, too... these are usually the first type of devices that get to market due to relative simplicity.
The voice component of LTE is likely to take more time to test. Verizon will probably want the first batch of LTE-enabled phones to use CDMA for voice, too, especially considering LTE-CDMA handoffs. But how I understand it 2018-2020 is the shut-down date for the CDMA network, not when they plan to stop selling CDMA phones. (You might have meant this, the post was unclear so I wanted to clarify)
Interestingly, because EV-DO is "data only" (well, the official acronym was changed to "data optimized" for some reason), the older CDMA 1x network is still used for voice, and may end up outliving EV-DO... |
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