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Ready Link, the perfect example

DigAHole

Mar 7, 2007, 7:03 PM
Of Sprint's stupid upper management.

No one has or will ever use ready-link. Yet they insist on including it on new devices. Wake up Sprint, no one wants your b.s. readylink.
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Rich Brome

Mar 7, 2007, 10:37 PM
Ahem... they BOUGHT NEXTEL. I think they did wake up. 😉

Besides, it doesn't really cost them anything to include it in a Sanyo phone, (ReadyLink is 95% software and 5% a good speaker, which people want anyway for speakerphone,) so why not include it? They did go to all the trouble to create the ReadyLink infrastructure a while back, so if this means just a few more people use ReadyLink, that's just a little bit more return on their investment.

Sprint knows how bad ReadyLink is, which is why you don't them marketing it anymore. But what's the harm in including the software in a few phones? It doesn't really add to the cost or size, so it's fine if only 2% of people who buy the phone use that feature.
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coziamnumber1

Mar 8, 2007, 10:05 AM
but but but when will sprint be able to chrip nextel 👀

(sorry i get a lot of that at work and i felt like mocking my customers)
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DigAHole

Mar 8, 2007, 11:01 AM
Rich Brome said:
Ahem... they BOUGHT NEXTEL. I think they did wake up. 😉


Are you serious?

I don't think you can possibly say with a straight face that purchasing Nextel was "waking up." Trying to combine two separate companies, with two different business strategies, with two different technologies, with two different customer bases, two different everything cannot be constituted as waking up. It's lead to people fleeing from the company, the firing of quality employees, closing of stores, the good exec's leaving, confusion within the company, and the list could go on for days.

If you're saying that the only thing good that comes out of it is a PTT solution, ok, I guess they can hang ...
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coziamnumber1

Mar 8, 2007, 11:07 AM
very well said.

basically sprint is setting themselves up for being bought out by comcast.

only problem with that is, alltel is for sale now, which will sell for cheaper, has a more loyal customer base and stronger upper management.
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stevelvl

Mar 8, 2007, 11:21 AM
coziamnumber1 said:
very well said.

basically sprint is setting themselves up for being bought out by comcast.

only problem with that is, alltel is for sale now, which will sell for cheaper, has a more loyal customer base and stronger upper management.


I think you fail to grasp how large sprint is. Very few companies could buy sprint. It has an en enormous customer baise all though i will admit at this rate that will not last long. it also has huge amounts of spectrum, the spectrum alone is worth 100s of billions of $$$
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coziamnumber1

Mar 8, 2007, 11:24 AM
I agree that their spectrum is worth a lot of money. However, it looks like they are honestly phasing out of wireless and changing their focus to IP services.
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digitmasher

Mar 8, 2007, 11:55 AM
A strictly IP business model going to be a much more cost effective solution for Sprint or any company. The applications that are possible across the different platforms would be mind blowing (okay maybe not THAT exciting but at the least very promising)

Consumer adoption however would be a huge hurdle to overcome for the wireless subscribers. I can see explaining voip via a wireless device being a hard concept for the majority of consumers to grasp Hell, look at how confused they are about Ready Link and Direct Connect. "Why can't I two way someone on Nextel with my Sprint phone, then why the hell did they merge!"

Sprint has more than enough spectrum, but right now may not have the ability or proper management to institute and marke...
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Rich Brome

Mar 8, 2007, 11:35 AM
DigAHole said:
Rich Brome said:
Ahem... they BOUGHT NEXTEL. I think they did wake up. 😉

Are you serious?

I don't think you can possibly say with a straight face that purchasing Nextel was "waking up."

I'm not going to pass judgment here on the merger overall. I was strictly referring to Sprint "waking up" to the inadequacy of ReadyLink and the need for a decent PTT solution. I was only making the point that you can't accuse Sprint of not taking PTT seriously. Buying Nextel is the most they could have possibly done to address that one issue.
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DigAHole

Mar 8, 2007, 12:23 PM
Well, I don't think having a solid PTT solution was a good reason for the merger. It's evident now with all the iDen sub's leaving in thousands every quarter.

The top 2 players in the American wireless industry don't promote their PTT. Cingular did at first, but since then how much have you seen of it?

The bottom line is still including readylink on phones is confusing more customers, and a worthless feature.
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WirelessVet

Mar 8, 2007, 11:50 PM
Well,

I wouldnt think they are going to try to integrate the PTT technologies until the IDEN contract runs out with motorola in 2010(i believe that is when it runs out).

I would be worried about that though. Motorola has NEVER made a decent sprint phone.
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gunny

Mar 8, 2007, 12:56 AM
😁 Cheap suits! Cheap suits!
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hondaccordex

Mar 8, 2007, 3:02 PM
Best Buys Geek Squad uses readylink actually, ok maybe you dont see them use it but they all have readylink phones
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