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| Re: Wow... said by Karl Bode:You would probably need to set up some gravitational beacons and inter-galactic warning markers to ensure passing craft gave the anomaly a wide berth. Don't you mean a gravimetric beam using low frequency harmonics generated by the dish array?
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| | | | | I am happy with them now I am happy with them now with there service and there tech support i think if comcast buy it there image will be more deteriorated than now. | |
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| Re: Wow... Don't you mean a gravimetric beam using low frequency harmonics generated by the dish array? Shit, yes. Sorry. My morning geothermal cross-inducer laced my coffee with ten millimeters too much genetically-altered metabolizer.
Though I hear good things about the United Federation of Sprint and the Universal Church of Comcast's efforts to quell dissent on the lower fourteen colonies. | |
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| | | Comcast has the cash to do it.
Sprint would be renamed "Comcastic PCS!"
"I'm a MAC."
"And, I'm a PC."
"What's that new gizmo you're holding, PC?"
"It's the new Comcast PCS Google Phone. I can even use the iStore products on it. It has a 80 gig HD too."
"Wow! Where can I buy it?"
"At any Comcast PCS store or Comcast office."
Ding-Ding!
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| | | Better idea.
Comcast buys sprint, renames the whole company Sprint PCS for wireless. Then call the land service "sprint fiber optics". Sprint used to push the whole fiber optic BS in the 80s and 90s, now comcast can revitalize that and pitch it as a new fiber optic company.
Existing comcast customers call their service comcast, all new customers sign up with "sprint fiber optics" (still delivered over coaxial for the last mile). This way comcast can acquire new accounts under a new name with less bad reputation. All new customers would get simple everything plan for voice,data,mobile, and video for one low price.
F@#$ calling sprint Comcast PCS, sprint is a better name than comcast for marketing. | |
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| Re: Wow... Comcast bounces around on the reputation meter to me, and Sprint has always been pretty darn low, since their shenanigans with CISCO with the Internet backbone in the 1990s.
So, I don't see Sprint as bueying the repuation of Comcast. Of course, I'm sitting here with Comcast's brand new "Extreme" service (10megabitspersecondoutbound, 50megabitspersecondinbound, tested and confirmed to be such) before I've even laid a penny on paying the first bill which that is reflected on (haven't seen it yet), so I'm in the happiest part of happy land with them now. That's frosted on top with the memory of four tech visits, each very motivated to get their job done right, to get the service to work.
Yes, I know, it coughed a bit when the new teir was born, but I was ready for that so didn't mind.
Sprint? Evil Enemy #1, a small dovermin pincher barking at the feet of the dinosaur deathstar AT&T as far as I'm concerned. Yeah, you don't want to be crushed by the behemoth, but that dog will tear you to shreds before the big one gets close to you.
Comcast has plenty of negatives to its name, but nothing so treacherous. So I'm not at the same place as you with the naming. To me Comcast is a mixed bag, but Sprint and AT&T are just garbage all through and through, with little bits of good history and humanity to hang to, only because they're on the same planet as we are. | |
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|  hambone42Peace, through superior firepowerPremium
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Manassas, VA | said by billybish:The customer service black hole created would threaten the existence of the entire universe! Perhaps, but at least Consumerist could declare said alliance the permanent winner of their "Worst Company in America" trophy.
»consumerist.com/tag/wcia-2009/
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Mount Airy, MD | What Is Old Is New Again Ahhh... who else remembers the old days of Comcast Metrophone?
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2 edits | Re: What Is Old Is New Again I miss Metrophone , that was real customer service. Comcast should just buy Sprint, convert to LTE. There you go instant phone company . A real competitor to Verizon, and ATT. | |
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| | | | Re: What Is Old Is New Again said by DaveDude:I miss Metrophone , that was real customer service. Comcast should just buy Spring, convert to LTE. But then who would buy Summer, Winter and Fall? | |
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| Re: What Is Old Is New Again said by DarnellP:said by DaveDude:I miss Metrophone , that was real customer service. Comcast should just buy Spring, convert to LTE. But then who would buy Summer, Winter and Fall? Cablevision of course.
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| Who remembers that Comcast actually is the ORIGINAL owner of Nextel? (Comcast spun off Nextel in the late 1990s *prior* to their purchase of Jones Communications, and well before AT&T Broadband was on their radar; Comcast still has long-term contracts with the Nextel side of Sprint because of their DirectConnect features.)
Perhaps its all the talk as of late of *unwinding* previous transactions (mostly related to problematical asset valuations), and now whenever a spinoff hasn't quite worked the way some thought it would, they want to retract it (such as the talk during the late 1990s about possibly re-assembling the Bell System).
What next? Comcast being dragged into re-acquiring Muzak? (Muzak is another former Comcast subsidiary; it was previously the Sound Division.) | |
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| For the Love of BOb...NO! I just became part of a Sprint Contract. I am actually HAPPY with their service.
I thought I was Safe and Insulated from Comcast, way down here. Now you're telling me I'm in danger of being drawn into The Heap.
Ruining my appetite is not a weight loss program.
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| | | Re: For the Love of BOb...NO! You're always in danager of having your provide being bought out by someone else.
Tell me you actually knew that though. | |
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| | | | Re: For the Love of BOb...NO! seriously, if comcast wins the market share court date on april 24th, it's a done deal.
Comcast will probably buy not only sprint but qwest and charter while they are at it | |
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kudos:2 | Bail out? All we need is for Sprint to cry to the goberment that they might go bankrupt. Comcast can save the day and the goberment can force Comcast to buy Sprint at a much reduced price.
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| | NO! Someone needs to find Dan Frommer and glue his mouth shut! Keep your stupid ideas to yourself Dan! | |
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| | As long as it's not Embarq As long as it's just Sprint the wireless company and not Embarq.
I think Embarq is a separate company anyway and is being bought out by centurytel. | |
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| | God NO! I don't seem to have as many problems with Sprint as many others, but if Comcast were to buy them I'd have to jump ship FAST. I finally got to a reasonable plan and cost and Comcast would be sure to fix that right away. No thank you. Comcast: go buy T-Mobile. Leave Sprint alone. Thanks.
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kudos:2 | Re: God NO! +1 on that. My cell plan rocis, but I'm sure Comcast could find a way to **** it up. | |
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kudos:18 | Sounds ok to me! All of my Comcast services are great!
Add cell into the mix? Hell yes!
Sprint even, Why not!
Maybe Virgin Mobile will by them out... they run on Sprint anyways.
That would be fine by me too!
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| | | Re: Sounds ok to me! You know Virgin Mobile is part of Sprint-Nextel right? | |
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| | Should Comcast Just Buy Sprint? Comcast needs to not even bat an eyelash Sprint's way. I truely dislike Comcast, but love my Sprint service. If Comcast does acquire Sprint, I feel the quality of service I have now would deteriorate.
I have not had any problems with Sprint. | |
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| | stay away from my sprint, commiecast! last thing I want in this world is for them to jack up the price of my wireless phone bill too. | |
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kudos:5 | Match made in heaven Sure. The consolidation of two crappy companies with half-assed products would be great. Sprint and Comcast's un-uniformity throughout the country would be a perfect match.
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kudos:4 |  Sprint needs bailout; Comcast should avoid them
»news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090403/bs_nm/us_sprint
Credit rating firm Standard & Poor's cut its outlook on Sprint Nextel Corp (S.N) to "negative" from "stable", saying the wireless carrier's financial health could deteriorate further this year as it loses more subscribers.
Sprint shares fell 4.21 in early trade on Friday after S&P issued a report that affirmed its "BB" credit rating but said the company appeared to be losing customers to rivals such as AT&T Inc (T.N) and Verizon Wireless, owned by Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) and Vodafone Group (VOD.L).
"The ratings on Sprint Nextel continue to reflect a weak business profile because of its elevated churn relative to its peers, anemic subscriber trends, and significant competition from other wireless carriers, which is particularly important as the industry continues to show signs of maturation," it said. Comcast, or someone else, will be able to pick them up for nothing in a couple years. And the gov't may even kick in a few billions to boot.
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| | | Re: Standard & Poor?? If it coming for Standard & Poor, it is alway right. Just look at all the rating they did for banks. I give there rating with a lot of salt. Beside, The only part of Sprint that have lost subscriblers is Nextel. By the way, the new boost unlimit plan will help stop that. | |
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|  en102Canadian, eh?
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Valencia, CA | Re: Sprint needs bailout; Comcast should avoid them Hmm... if Sprint shows enough weakness, and is deemed 'too big to fail', the government will take over and 'give' it to Comcast.
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| | SK Telcom or BT Methinks a foreign telcom will buy Sprint before a US cable company does.
Sprint is definitely getting better (I'm satisfied) but the Nextel side will continue to drag Sprint down. | |
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| | If Comcast gets into cell service I think they should take the same approach as Cox and build their own network.
Comcast already has hundreds of towers standing and I bet fiber run to a lot of them. Put in antenna's and use the fiber to transport it back to the headend. They obviously would need to put in more, but it may be cheaper than buying Sprint.. | |
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| | | Re: If Comcast gets into cell service Sprint could probably be purchased for the value of the spectrum alone. | |
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kudos:2 | Towers? Where? What do they use 'em for? | |
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| | | | Re: If Comcast gets into cell service that's what I want to know. | |
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kudos:1 | no please dont make these terrible suggestions that seem to make sense. we dont need people getting any ideas. | |
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| | What did you learn? Oh please god no, this isn't even funny. | |
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join:2008-11-25
Collegeville, PA | Should Comcast just infect Sprint? Does Sprint really want to be tainted, contaminated, and (insert negative here) with Comcast's less than stellar image?
Not to mention all the further restrictions Comcast would likely add to Sprint's network. What would we see next; a cap of 250 texts per month? | |
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| | | Re: Should Comcast just infect Sprint? Simply everything plan would be renamed "simply nothing plan"
"with Comcast PCS simply nothing plan you get exactly that, nothing. For just 99 dollars a month* you get nothing, no texting, no data, no voice!. For just 16 dollars a month each, you can get 10 mins of voice, 10 text messages, and 10k of data! After the first 10 its only $.25 per min/kb/text!"
This would of course have an awesome commercial with a lot of crazy multicolored writing.
*first for 3 months, then only $249.99 a month | |
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