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Sprint Settles Lawsuit Over Nextel Merger for $131 Million

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Seems like a pretty small settlement...

thebriang

Mar 31, 2015, 11:31 AM
when you consider the size of the "writedown" and all the lies they told everybody at the merger. Yet another classic sprint uckup, nextel had a good installed user base, with widen rollout around the corner, and a ton of people who wanted to stick with Nextel.
They sure didnt want Sprint though, and especially not after Sprint screwed up everything they previously had and then wanted them to rerun credit for Sprint CDMA lines (that sucked).
What a waste, Nextel was bomb. Only if you knew other people with nextel of course, but nothing beats pushing the button and saying "what do you want?" No latency, unlike the recent crap PTT they all push, and great inbuilding coverage, crap data but the real problem was most people had old phones....
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cellphonesaretools

Mar 31, 2015, 9:12 PM
Amen to all that.

In the nine years since Sprint took over Nextel, I have yet to have a single satisfying customer experience with Sprint, at any level. Contrast that with all of my customer experiences with Nextel, which (a) always had a genuine, safisfying resolution, and (b) made me feel genuinely appreciated and valued as a customer.
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deanwoof

Mar 31, 2015, 9:22 PM
I started working for sprint in 2006 and it was a cluster of a mess. CDMA, iden, then thr attempt to integrate the two companies. It's almost like they decided to take thr worst of both companies and combine them into one.

Nextel was awesome. Loved selling those phones. Nobody ever complained about coverage or dropped calls. Sprint dropped call complaints daily. They bought nextel at the worst time possible - text messaging started blowing up and it essentially killed PTT.

God bless your soul, sprint. Always trying to do too much.
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cellphonesaretools

Apr 1, 2015, 8:02 AM
deanwoof said:
... It's almost like they decided to take thr worst of both companies and combine them into one.

Nextel was awesome. Loved selling those phones. Nobody ever complained about coverage or dropped calls.


The sad thing is, they didn't have to try to combine them so quickly, they could have let both "divisions" run independently until they had their act together on the infrastructure.

Nextel was cranking out cash at that time, and was either the outright industry leader, or tied with Verizon for first-place, in every metric they use to judge the wireless industry. So the Sprint board of directors SHOULD HAVE just let Nextel and Sprint coexist brand-wise and marketing-wise for at least two ...
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