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This merger scuttlebutt keeps cropping up like a bad dream. Say it ain't so. Because I really need to wake up. | |
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join:2003-11-11
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kudos:1 | Re: Ohhh NOOOO!!! SPrint didn't learn from the Nextel debacle?
CDMA, iDEN and GSM.
OH MY!
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| Re: Ohhh NOOOO!!! iDEN still surprises me. I'm out in the smokies right now, CDMA & GSM has no coverage, but you can still get iDEN. But I do agree, this will NOT work out well for anyone with 4 networks. (Yes, I said 4. Once Clear destroys WiMax they'll dump the remnants off onto Sprint) | |
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| Who said anything about GSM iDEN and CDMA? We're talking next generation. Not 3g/current networks. What is the issue with not getting this?
As far as Nextel they would keep this due to the prepaid customers sprint is making the money off of. It would only make sense.
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join:2009-11-23 | Yeah, right Like T-Mobile wants to buy a company bleeding both cash at nearly a billion a quarter AND customers by the tens of thousands every quarter. | |
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join:2009-11-23 | Re: Yeah, right Okay, who would want to merge with a company bleeding customers by the tens of thousands every quarter and bleeding cash by nearly a BILLION dollars every quarter? | |
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Both companies have been on death lists for several years but are still around. Companies this big can get through rough rides for many years. Sprint's defectations have been significantly reducing though (pre paid is gaining) and post may turn around this year. Not sure about Tmob but they lost customers last Q. If they both end up on LTE down the road, the may as well join up.
BTW, if Sprint eventuall adds LTE, they need to do it in 1900 spectrum, not 2500. Keep 2500 for WiMAX. | |
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| |  en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Re: Yeah, right I would tend to agree... I just don't think that Sprint has the cash right now. | |
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| Re: Yeah, right VZ keeps saying "soon" when is soon? the same time they allow open handsets on their network? And who are these other carriers? TMO? They're not. ATT? They're not. MetroPCS? I doubt it as they'll cut their roaming agreements from Cricket, Sprint and others. The only way Metro would keep working is if they moved to LTE and so did TMO since they both use AWS handsets. Thats' about it.
And again as far as VZW, tell them to show it to the public or keep it and their employees mouths shut cause nothing is coming soon.
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| | | | | | | | Re: Yeah, right Evryone keep talking about LTE, but HSPA+ has abilities well over 10MBS if they (TMO and ATT) will spend the money to put in the beefed up back-haul, which it sounds like TMO is doing. I get HALF that speed and I will be in HEAVEN!! | |
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| | | Sprint is not bleeding anything. It has added thousands of prepaid customers with Boost and Virgin Mobile, and it's post paid customer base is returning due to excellent service, new phones, improved coverage better than AT&T, and 4G. Please come out of your cave and realize you are looking at old newspapers. | |
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| TMobile and Sprint merger is a bad idea. This would be just as stupid as the Sprint and Nextel merger. And it would result in the same lousy customer service for former TMobile customers as the Nextel customers experienced after the Sprint and Nextel merger. Dan Hesse needs to concentrate on fixing Sprint's numerous technical and service problems, not getting distracted by mergers and acquisitions. | |
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| Re: TMobile and Sprint merger is a bad idea. Numerous tech and service problems?
Obviously you don't have sprint.
I've had ZERO problems with them in the past 2.5 years. Infact I've been so thrilled with them that I've converted a friend or two every other month.
Just last weekend, I was in Vermont, only phones that worked were verizon and sprint......converted 3 people right there!
Sprint = Verizon Coverage for a cheaper price and BETTER phones. | |
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join:2003-07-05
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| Re: TMobile and Sprint merger is a bad idea. And obviously you don't realize that cellular service varies in each area. Sprint may be good in your area, but there are areas where it isn't. The same concept goes for every single cell phone company.
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| | | | Obviously some peoplel on here think when people put down Sprint it is because of bad coverage or dropped calls
Well, it is quite the contrary. I had Sprint for 4 days had an EVO, it is a nice phone, NOT as nice as the Samsung Vibrant , well I had a bill question, which soon escalated to a bill problem, which soon escalated to a supervisor telling me that she is as high as you can get. I thought to myself, this is my first week in Sprint and I have someone telling me if I have a real problem I can go no higher. That was the last day I was with Spring. And now, I didn't know they were in as bad of trouble as they are...certainly according to ATT and VZ, yes, but now we now why Sprint is in that bad of trouble. | |
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| The Best Deal If they make it work, it will the best deal ever in USA Wireless history.
Sprint has good 4 G network
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T Mobile has GSM phones and good customer service
strong network + GSM phones + good customer service
= happy customer
TSprint Please go for it i will make the switch to you | |
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| bn1221
join:2009-04-29
Cortland, NY | Re: The Best Deal Hardly
You'll get Sprint's support and T-mo's network. | |
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join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | Re: The Best Deal Considering T-Mobile's native network is both larger and faster, and is good enough that I haven't called support for years - that works for me! | |
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| | | I don't know why you think GSM is an advantage. GSM sucks. | |
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join:2001-08-29
Pompano Beach, FL | Re: The Best Deal Do you have anything to support that claim? Especially since it's used in most of the world? | |
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| GSM its a big advantage my friend.
1 ) you can use your own phone with carrier
2) unlock the phone and use it with ohter carrier
3) sell it or Give it to some one you know
4) use the sim car with MIFI to get internet access to your laptop.
5) if you your contract its up and you need new phone no need to sign 2 year contract .just use any cheap GSM phone from ebay.
6) gsm phones repair its cheaper than CDM
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join:2002-09-08
Orlando, FL | Re: The Best Deal your basing gsm on phone availability and not network performance. While everything you say is true, it does not make GSM a better phone network. CDMA is equally as powerful, but you are missing the point here in general. They are talking about 4G networks and Sprint is selecting LTE, as is the rest of the world, so in the next 4 years when the rest of the world uses LTE and we all use VOIP for phone calls, CDMA IDEN and GSM are going to be worthless. Lets think progressive here, and that is what sprint is doing.
Spring really needs to dump WIMAX and adopt LTE or just pick one of the technologies and go with it. They are splitting up their network again and it is going to fail just like the IDEN/CDMA network that they have. | |
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| Re: The Best Deal How in the hell can you claim Sprint is selecting LTE instead of WiMax? Just because they say they can change without a problem and issued an RFP that does NOT mean they're going to do anything. They just want prices. What do you people not get about that? THEY ARE NOT MOVING TO LTE!
CDMA and iDEN failed due to they never killed the iDEN network and left customers move back and forth between the two and still do. iDEN should have been left for businesses ONLY and regular consumers should have been moved to CDMA and that would have fixed that issue. They should have also left Nextel in tack and left them run Nextel.
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| | | said by Totti :If they make it work, it will the best deal ever in USA Wireless history. Sprint has good 4 G network + T Mobile has GSM phones and good customer service strong network + GSM phones + good customer service = happy customer TSprint Please go for it i will make the switch to you Oh yes, decreasing the number of competitors in an already cartel-like industry will be great. Just great. | |
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join:2000-07-24
Miami, FL | T-Mo LTE I can't see T-Mobile doing WiMax, especially since they are owned by DT. | |
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| | Sprint Sprint's support is effin awesome though. I don't get the gripes. Sure it sucked 8-9 years ago, but it's pretty awesome now. | |
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| | | Re: Sprint sprint has been awsome in major metro area even better than verizon since 2001.
Also where sprint doesnt have coverage guess what it roams on VERIZON (same technology) oh and before you say roaming is expensive etc.. with sprint roaming in USA is FREE period.
so lets see i get sprints netowrk + verizons network in 1 and i pay less than for verizon its a no brainer
Iv been a dye hard loyah and happy sprint users since 1999 | |
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join:2000-12-27
Glendale, AZ | T-Mobile All The Way As one commenter up there said, there are a lot of advantages to T-Mobile over Sprint.
The merger will probably bring all of Sprints LOCKED DOWN phones and do away with the GSM/SIM card.
I have had only a minor few issues with T-Mobile and that was when I upgraded to a newer phone that was defective out of the box.
Otherwise, they have excellent Customer Care. Wish their network was a little more robust, though.
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join:2007-01-03
Pointe-Claire, QC
kudos:22
·ELECTRONICBOX
| T-mobile provides Sprint with a way out of CDMA Since CDMA is all but dead, Sprint has to eventualy move from it. Merging with T-mobile makes sense because it would ease the transition into it.
The CDMA market will dwindle to a point where fewer and fewer handsets will be available for it. Wimax will always be too small to attract many handsets.
Remember that the telcos in Canada are winding down their CDMA networks, having moved to GSM (in large part to have the iphone). While it will be a number of years before it is shutdown, Sprint has to consider that its customers won't be able to roam in Canada when that happens. And with the canadian telcos having moved to GSM, it deprives Sprint of roaming revenues.
Sprint may have terrible image/service, but they have what T-Mobile lacks: spectrum in the right frequencies. The minute T-Mobile/Sprint have HSPA/UMTS running at 850/1900, they can start selling the iphone. It is important to note that iphone4 doesn't have 1700. (which tmobile uses, but also the new entrants in canada)
So, in the end, Verizon would be partly owned by Vodaphone, and Sprint would be partly owned by Deutsche-Telekom | |
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| Re: T-mobile provides Sprint with a way out of CDMA CMDA is far from dead. They can still upgrade those networks and keep the bandwidth flowing. The same as TMO is doing with theirs. Why move networks now when you don't have to? You can keep pushing the speeds your customers want without the cost of building out something new right now.
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| not gonna happen Mergers are beginning to make less and less sense for the consumer...
At&t and Bell South.. what?
Sprint and Nextel.. doh!
Verizon and MCI-Worldcom.. ok, whatever
Comcast and Nbc what for?
What's next, Fox and Qwest?
Mergers of the mega kind really DO NOTHING GOOD for the pre-paid and/or mvno industry-- if anything a merger of big companies HURTS competitiveness. You don't have to rub much intelligence together to figure that one out! | |
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join:2000-08-02
Roslindale, MA | Re: not gonna happen Qwest is merging with CenturyLink. So fox and Qwest will never happen. | |
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join:2006-03-15
Avon Lake, OH | Re: not gonna happen said by dplantz:Qwest is merging with CenturyLink. So fox and Qwest will never happen. Ok, change the previous suggestion to FOX and CenturyLink | |
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| | merger! Deutsche Telekom has been itching to grow T-mobile in the US, this would be a great way to do it. Instant move to number three carrier. With the number one mobile platform, Android rocks. | |
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| | | Re: merger! said by nyc dude :
Deutsche Telekom has been itching to grow T-mobile in the US
Or sell it off...
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| | I think your all missing the point... It's numbers if they merge they can add there subscibers numbers together making them seem larger than they are and gain more on a large competing scale. | |
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join:2007-01-03
Pointe-Claire, QC
kudos:22 Reviews:
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| Re: I think your all missing the point... In any merger, there should be a CLEAR plan to unify the platforms into a single one. AKA, move CDMA, HSPA and iDEN to LTE.
If they don't have such a clear plan, then Sprint merger with anyone will fail.
Sprint is tainted goods, but it has lots of spectrum as an asset. | |
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| Re: I think your all missing the point... said by jfmezei: In any merger, there should be a CLEAR plan to unify the platforms into a single one. AKA, move CDMA, HSPA and iDEN to LTE. If they don't have such a clear plan, then Sprint merger with anyone will fail. Sprint is tainted goods, but it has lots of spectrum as an asset. said by jfmezei: In any merger, there should be a CLEAR plan to unify the platforms into a single one. AKA, move CDMA, HSPA and iDEN to LTE. If they don't have such a clear plan, then Sprint merger with anyone will fail. Sprint is tainted goods, but it has lots of spectrum as an asset. I agree, all technologies should work over one modulation-- such as LTE... even PUSH TO TALK walkie-talkie! A phase-out & equipment buyout would need to happen in short order! This would cost the company *BILLIONS* upfront, but they would have a more compelling streamlined delivery platform. A really telling thing is, neither company has enough cash in the bank to make this happen... and there aren't any stupid financing partners such as VODAFONE out there.. This is the only kind of path that would make sense (to me). Then one hell of a good lie can be cooked up that savings (from increased competition) would then be passed on to consumers similar to the one Verizon did with FIOS. The reality was that a 1-2 year pause in huge rate increases happened in the 2003-2005 years and then hikes just about every year since.
Still think that the merger would never happen, as the BAR used to be (before the era of unmasked corporate greed took over)-- what was in it for the CONSUMER-- in common sense plain language. | |
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join:2003-05-26
Climax, MI
kudos:3
·Comcast
| said by wispalord:It's numbers if they merge they can add there subscibers numbers together making them seem larger than they are and gain more on a large competing scale. Yeah, they still might not beat Verizon but they'll be up there.
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