| reply to PGHammer
Re: It's here.......well, in some places.. OK - couple of things to correct in PGHammer's comments: 1) Sprint is not burning through cash at a horrendous rate. Sorry - look at 4Q. Cash is going up. There's things all of us can criticize about Sprint, but cash management is not one of them (under-investment in network? You be the judge - look at the PC World data study). 2) Sprint has a CLEC that serves nearly 5 million cable VoIP customers - which, as a couple of analysts have noted recently - throws off a lot of - you got it - cash. They now have a Class 5 and Class 4 (tandem/ LD network that's packet-based and paid for). 3) Sprint had so much problems with the debt holders that they raised $1.3 billion debt in 3Q 2009 (Aug 13th, I believe) to cover the Clearwire top-up. 4) T-Mobile has a higher churn in post-paid wireless (if that's what you mean by national wireless) at 2.11% - overall was closer to 3%. TMOB was higher on both counts. I am not supporting Sprint - there's plenty to be critical about - but please, speak from the facts rather than emotional nostalgic views. |
