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monkeyracer

Mar 5, 2007, 6:06 PM
I got a couple bil to throw away, just tell me who to write the check to.

It would be interesting to see sprint merge with alltel, since they have SRA's with each other.

it would make Sprint the largest wireless carrier, and the Juggernaut would begin it's stampede.
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wu10304

Mar 5, 2007, 6:10 PM
sprint should buy the rights to the chocolate then they would be a juggernaut
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monkeyracer

Mar 5, 2007, 6:36 PM
and you could get a free one with a pizza!
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foneguy

Mar 5, 2007, 6:44 PM
Sprint wouldn't become the largest...Alltel only has 12.9 million customers, Sprint has 21 million (IIRC), thus the merger would leave Sprint with 34 million, roughly.
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monkeyracer

Mar 5, 2007, 7:21 PM
what are you talking about? there are 21 million just on nextel, and another 33 on the CDMA network. that makes 54 million, add alltel's 15, that's 69 million. AT&T only has 61.

Put the pipe down, and log on the the right internet sites to get the info. If sprint only had 21M customers, t-mobile would be considered the 3rd largest.

before the Sprint-Nextel merger, Sprint was the 3rd largest and nextel was the 5th behind t-mobile.

Here's the info as of the most recent sources:

Cingular, The old and new AT&T - 61 Million
Verizon - 59 million
Sprint (and nextel, since it's the same company) - 53.7 million
T-Mobile - 25 million
Alltel - 15 million

Don't forget that Sprint has a million MVNO's (qwest, virgin, disney, etc.) an...
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StoreLead

Mar 5, 2007, 7:29 PM
4th quarter reports had 53.1 million subscribers for Sprint/Nextel. broken up with 24.2 million CDMA subscribers, 17.6 iDen subscribers, 4 million boost, 6.4 million wholesale, 900,000 affiliate subscribers. as you pointed out, this does not include virgin, disney, and other MVNO's.

as for the rest of your numbers i'm not sure.
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LordObento

Mar 6, 2007, 12:26 AM
Doesn't Phonescoop List the Carriers in the order of Subscribers?

Under Carrier it's
Cingular, Verizon, T-mobile
Sprint, Sprint W/ Nextel, Alltel
etc....
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coziamnumber1

Mar 6, 2007, 8:48 AM
no.
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monkeyracer

Mar 6, 2007, 2:54 PM
no, that wouldn't make any sense anyways, sprint IS sprint-nextel.

The reason there are two links for sprint, is one used to be for nextel before the merger, and contains info about iden phones.
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LordObento

Mar 6, 2007, 11:41 PM
No I'm right

https://www.phonescoop.com/forums/forum.php?fm=m&ff= ... »

Rich has them separate because they have 2 separate phone line-ups. Not all Sprint phones can be used on the Nextel network and vice versa, so until all phone have the CDMA/iDen for Nextel, I wouldn't consider them 1 company.
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monkeyracer

Mar 8, 2007, 3:24 PM
monkeyracer said:
no, that wouldn't make any sense anyways, sprint IS sprint-nextel.

The reason there are two links for sprint, is one used to be for nextel before the merger, and contains info about iden phones.


LordObento said:
No I'm right

https://www.phonescoop.com/forums/forum.php?fm=m&ff= ... »

Rich has them separate because they have 2 separate phone line-ups. Not all Sprint phones can be used on the Nextel network and vice versa, so until all phone have the CDMA/iDen for Nextel, I wouldn't consider them 1 company.


Okay, glad you agree with me sort of. iDEN phones don't work on CDMA towers. However, Sprint is one company. There are plenty of customer...
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flying_monkey

Mar 8, 2007, 4:15 PM
Yes this is true, but Cingular well now at&t, is technically one company bc all the old tdma customers are in with the Cingular database, when you pull up an account that is tdma it is in the same systems that you pull up the gsm customers, even though Cingular is killing all the old tdma customers as well as their plans. Also, though tdma is going to be completely done sometime this year or early 2008. But now that it is back with at&t, does that mean it ever really changed? No I'm just kidding I already know the answer to that one.
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monkeyracer

Mar 8, 2007, 4:42 PM
How is sprint not one company?

I can pull up nextel and sprint customers through RMS. That is only one application!

Sprint had a contract with it's billing printer, and when that was over it started to convert customers to one billing system, which is happening right now.

So as of this moment, at REAL corporate stores a rep can pull up either customer in only one system. It's true that maintanence and other things require other systems, but this was true with either prior company before the merger.

There is only one stock symbol: S

ALL old stock symbols have been retired. As far as the government and the IRS is concerned it's one company. So why persist on saying it's anything otherwise?
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flying_monkey

Mar 8, 2007, 4:50 PM
I think you misunderstood me, I was saying that it was one company, not two. I was also pointing out that Cingular is one company. They might have people using different frequencies but they are still the same company, if the numbers count it as one, then I would believe it is one.
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