patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to hottboiinnc
Re: Sprint switches to LTE said by hottboiinnc:And Sprint won't take anything from Clear. They own 51% of that company and can do what they want with Clear with no problems. but they won't shoot their right foot by pulling spectrum from Clear- hell they've issued a sale for some of it. If the cable companies get too aggressive with Sprint, Sprint might have to break off from Clear and go their own path, and Clear will just become a competitor to Sprint. MVNOs relationships never turn out good. The network owner will get jealous and start to compete against the MVNO until the MVNO gives up and hands over the profit markup to the network owner. MVNOs innovate, and the parent just copies then cranks up the wholesale rate until the MVNO dies. Firefly phone for kids got copied by AT&T/VZ not too long after. Media content branded MVNOs all wind up bankrupt/closed and as apps on infrastructure carriers mysteriously. Look at Virgin Mobile and Helio. Verizon used to have a no prepaid policy, now they have alot of prepaid plans. Ampd was killed by Verizon. Sprint used to be a franchise network, it has since bought out or sued into the ground all its franchise holders. TracFone has gave itself insurance by selling both AT&T GSM and Verizon CDMA, so the neither can blackmail TracFone out of the market. All the prepaid mobile companies that have survived (except America Movil) own infrastructure, IE, Pocket, MetroPCS, Cricket. MVNOs as independent companies have no future. Either an MVNO is branded AND BUNDLED through a parent, or its a fake brand of the network owner (Boost, Jump, VM, Rover, etc).
Sprint owns 51% (although that doesn't mean much if your appointed directors mutiny) and can dissolve the partnership, which would prevent the cable companies or McCraw or the mutual funds from trying to get rid of Sprint. Every partner you kill means more profit for you. |
