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Embarq to Dispose of Wireless Customers in 2009

May 14, 2008, 12:09 PM by Eric M. Zeman

Embarq's CFO recently told investors that the company plans to hand its wireless customers over to another carrier in 2009. The company had hoped to sign up 1 million customers, but has just 112,000. Embarq stopped signing up new customers earlier this year. It will keep its current customers until some point in 2009, and hasn't determined which wireless network operator the customers will be given to. Embarq was formerly part of Sprint. It will continue its landline operations.

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willv

May 14, 2008, 3:34 PM

was embarq national?

i know they were here in florida, but i didnt know if they were sold everywhere

BigShowJB

god I hope not, with only 112,000 customers...

I know with that customer bas andall, they are easy to confuse with verizon and ATT...

maokh

in a way, you could call it national. Lots of weird, scattered markets all over the USA. Both obscure rural markets served by microwave and larger markets like Las Vegas.

Not contiguous by any means.

NapalmBBQ

May 15, 2008, 6:02 PM

I wonder...

What percntage of those customer's will churn? If they go to Sprint, what will Sprint do to keep those customers?

I was with Stinkular when the AT&T buy out when down, and AT&T were more than upset about having been moved to another carrier. Many churned to other carriers.

legacynrs4evr

May 14, 2008, 12:22 PM

Gee, which carrier will they choose?

🙄 Obviously will be Sprint. But it sure would be hilarious of it wasn't.

algorithmplus

legacynrs4evr said:
🙄 Obviously will be Sprint. But it sure would be hilarious of it wasn't.

Given Sprint's current state of affairs, it wouldn't be surprising they may be handed off to another company.

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cjs5177

Actualy embarq was not part of sprint

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BigShowJB

If it were Qwest, I'd say it's a better chance that VZW would get it , but Embarq is still pretty tight with sprint. It'll be only a small gain for whichever carrier gets them.

at the moment, I'll go with you and say sprint, judging fro mtheir lin...
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