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If It Was The Sprint Of Old...If it was the Sprint of old, back when I first signed-on to Sprint, I'd be a merger cheerleader. That Sprint was disruptive. That Sprint was wholly unlike the other wireless carriers. That Sprint was bold, adventurous, innovative. The Sprint we have today is essentially indistinguishable from the two major players, "at&t" and VZW, save they have coverage and Sprint does not. In fact: In my personal experience: Sprint's coverage has become worse, since they started deploying Network Vision, rather than better.
Who's doing today what Sprint used to do? T-Mobile. Only T-Mobile.
"Oh, but Masayoshi Son is going to do Wonderful Things!" Really? Son has had Sprint for nine months and the sum total of the changes he's wrought? "Sprint's marketing is lousy." Yup, that's it: He's disposed of whatever marketing style Sprint used to use, and replaced it with another. That is certainly an improvement, eh?
We're to believe it would be a Good Thing for a company that's essentially indistinguishable from "at&t" and VZW, other than that's it's more poorly-run, to absorb the only competitor that's actually doing anything interesting in the market?
Yeah, I buy that.
Meanwhile: After having had all of Sprint we could take, we've been with T-Mobile for about the length of time SoftBank's owned Sprint, and T-Mobile keeps giving us new, concrete reasons to stay with them.
Jim |