Sprint CEO: 'Disruptive' Prices Coming Next Week
Honestly
If Sprint can have the kind of success adding subscribers that T-Mobile is having, in a couple of years they could have the scale to compete. If they continue to bleed customers due to poor coverage and sub-standard rate plans, they stand no chance at all. Better to go down swinging then to go out without a fight.
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cellwatcher said:...
Sprint trying to sell for "just under" Verizon & AT&T with a network that is "WAY UNDER" Verizon & AT&T doesn't seem to be working for them. Boost & Virgin at $55 & $60 are a RIP now similar with throttling & similar pricing to the "much-better-in-the city" T-Mobile & "better-everywhere" Verizon & AT&T's MVNOs. Straight Talk or Cricket with FAR superior coverage via AT&T or Verizon (look at Boost/Sprint Native coverage map particularly out west...PATHETIC!). There isn't ONE SPRINT TOWER in all of Montana! How else but to compete on price or just go out of business? I think Sprint postpaid needs unlimited everything (including data & hotspot) for maybe $60/month & their no-roaming MVNOs should be at
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If you wanna know how at&t and Verizon got to be the duopoly they are, it is by trying to provide coverage absolutely everywhere in the country, even in isolated rural communities like Montana. So many people sign up to at&t or Verizon because they literally have no other option. If T-Mobile or Spring could move in and offer coverage, they would clean up.
T Bone said:
For a lot of people in the area where I live, their only real options are Verizon, or a Verizon MVNO like Straight Talk
If you wanna know how at&t and Verizon got to be the duopoly they are, it is by trying to provide coverage absolutely everywhere in the country, even in isolated rural communities like Montana. So many people sign up to at&t or Verizon because they literally have no other option. If T-Mobile or Spring could move in and offer coverage, they would clean up.
They actually wouldn't - solely based on pricing doesn't mean squat when you can't offer the same level of services. Pay $20 more a month and get a REAL network.
John B.
Slammer said:
Building out an infrastructure is a daunting task as well as very expensive. With a smidgen above a million in total population, it would be very unlikely that Sprint or Tmobile would fork over cash to expand in areas where they would probably acquire only 10% of the customer base that AT&T and Verizon have. To cover the complete state would cost billions. AT&T and VZW acquired the areas by acquistions. If not, they most likely would not have spent the money either.
John B.
Yeah, but...yeah, but...yeah, but...you completely crushed my argument, but...I'll keep on because hateraid drinkers gotta hate.
Just thought I'd beat all the "but heads" to the punch - the hateraid punch, that is. :w...
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