Sprint To Sell Portions Of iDen Network After court loss in battle with iPCS According to a statement by Sprint, the carrier is selling their Nextel Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) assets in parts of several Midwestern states. While only briefly touched on in the statement, Sprint is being forced to divest the markets after an Illinois court ruled last November that their business agreement prohibits Sprint from offering service in the same states as its affiliate iPCS. At the time, the court gave Sprint a year to offload the 81 impacted markets, which exist in portions of Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Nebraska.
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  kdwycha
join:2003-01-30
Riverview, FL | Hmm... Didn't I see this same exact story just the other day?
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|  |  en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Re: Hmm... I guess the question is... will anyone want the Nextel iDEN network in those rural areas?
This could case issues for those on national Nextel service. | |
| | |  wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY | Re: Hmm... said by en102:I guess the question is... will anyone want the Nextel iDEN network in those rural areas? This could case issues for those on national Nextel service. My understanding is that they are really selling of the spectrum rights in those areas.
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| | | | en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Re: Hmm... Customers in those markets would also be sold as well.
I wouldn't be too happy if I had service and a relatively new device to be told that I'm being sold off due to a corporate strategy.
Then again, Sprint has been burning through many Nextel subs in the past couple of years, and gaining them back with 'Boost'.
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | karma Karma finally came. If you get an exclusive franchise to use a brand name for a certain area, you don't want the franchisor to come in and compete with you and try to steal you own customers meanwhile collecting franchise fees for himself from you, then use those fees to compete with you.
Imagine if you owned a Starbucks franchise (doesn't actually exist), then corporate opened up a Kiosk in the park across from you, then opened up one in the supermarket 3 doors away from you, then opened another one in the Target 5 doors in the other direction, then opened another one at the closest intersection at a new shopping center, then put out sales reps in mascot costumes to stand in front of your store directing people to the corporate Starbucks a few doors down. | |
| | en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Re: karma That actually exists where I live.
There's a 'corporate' Starbucks, and ~ 200' away there's a VONS (grocery store in SoCal) with a Starbucks inside it.
The VONS Starbucks used to have a deal , where if you used a VONS card (free tracking info card), buy 7 drinks of any kind, and your 8th was free (any size, and kind!)
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| | | patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | Re: karma said by en102:That actually exists where I live. There's a 'corporate' Starbucks, and ~ 200' away there's a VONS (grocery store in SoCal) with a Starbucks inside it. The VONS Starbucks used to have a deal , where if you used a VONS card (free tracking info card), buy 7 drinks of any kind, and your 8th was free (any size, and kind!) My example was fictitious, Starbucks doesn't franchise except under 1 condition, the Starbucks franchise is in restricted access space and does not appear to be a standalone/public operation, such a super market, another store, a university campus, or a sterile space like an office building cafeteria/military base.
But Starbucks has serious internal drama because of how middle management and rank and file blaming the franchises for stealing business/blame their own mistakes on the franchises.
I couldn't think of a well known franchise that has publically known franchise and saturation problems. Some call Coldstone a MLM scheme. I know 1/2 to 3/4s of the ones in NYC have closed. There are smaller localized spats over Subway franchises being too close, but that I think that was a much smaller problem than Coldstone, and the Subway franchise spats have gotten much less media/internet attention than Coldstone.
McDonalds I've never heard of having saturation/franchise problems, maybe corporate does its homework, or its fundamentally impossible to screw up a McDonalds franchise since your the bottom of the barrel and your market is as addicted reliable as sun rising aslong as (I'll stop this here to prevent a flame war) | |
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| | An exercise in brinksmanship Personally, I don't expect that Sprint will wind up selling anything. iPCS has been a thorn in Sprint's side for a while now. Sprint realizes that the only way to stop iPCS from bothering them until the end of time is to buy them out. Both sides know this. The only question is how much is it going to cost Sprint. This announcement is just the opening salvo in the negotiations. Stay tuned, there's surely more to come before this matter is concluded. | |
|  swsamuraiPremium
join:2002-04-17
Bakersfield, CA | iDEN's Future...
I do not know... Personally I was very disappointed in the iDEN quality.
I had about 50+ of my users on iDEN phones at one point and the overall quality and coverage for them was poor at best. I started moving them over to the CDMA side of the game.
Personally I think it was foolish for Sprint to acquire Nextel in the first place. | |
| | | swsamuraiPremium
join:2002-04-17
Bakersfield, CA | Re: huh? Odd...
My Sprint rep is still trying to shove iDEN phones down my throat... Unless we are discussing two different beasts here. | |
| | patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | I think that idea is throughly dead by now. "going to government" might mean its being returned to the FCC, probably to become analog trunked public safety like its SMR peers. | |
| |  meister_sdPremium
join:2006-01-29
La Mesa, CA
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| | whar? Ipcs areas are court ordered to not have sell or anything nextel. Sprint has to sell these markets period the subs towers all of it has to go... | |
| Rob2647
join:2008-08-12
Rochester, MI Reviews:
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| iDENosaur Once my contract is up I'm making the switch to Sprints CDMA PTT. The PTT is nice, but the iDEN network has been nice, a few issues here and there, I'm tired of the garbled conversations. Sprints coverage in my area is great. Plus I've been drooling over the Moto V950 for a while now. | |
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| meanwhile in the northeast & elsewhere.. Verizon expands their push to talk network....
Further tightening the noose around Sprint's neck. $40-50 unlimited pre/post paid plans don't seem to be a ploy many cell phone companies are falling for-- or matching. This means that Sprint is taking a loss on many of these high use customers (above 1200-1500 minutes in/out a month, texts and data).
What I wish this did is further push down rates at pre paid comanies such as Tracfone & Net10.. they could easily do 5 cents per minute now in bulk cards of 450+ minutes & 90 days usage, but don't.. $20-25 for 3 months service would be awesome (a cellphone for $100/yr). MOST Voip companies can't beat that (maybe magic jack, or skype.. but not others).
Well, if Sprint goes to $20 prepaid, unlimited.. I'll try it.. otherwise that's too much for me to spend monthly based on my usage. | |
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