Sprint's WiMax Venture In Flux
TORPEDO LOCKED AND LOADED SIR!
jared5604 said:
that is an ignorant comment, sprint isn't goin anywhere... 😕
They shouldn't be going down, but if they keep ignoring customer service and continue to market as poorly as they have, they'll continue to take on water and may eventually get bought out. Don't know if that it'd be a good thing or a bad thing, long term.
But, lets see what a new permanent CEO can do. It may be that you get someone really good, who can turn things around.
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They are sinking right to the bottom of the ocean at speeds noone predicted!
This isn’t totally unexpected, no? Sprint Nextel’s earning came out, and they reported a 77% drop in profit, while also cutting forecasts for next year. They’ve lost the most subscribers this quarter since 2005, maybe longer. Their third-quarter net income turned out to be only $64M! How many customers did they lose exactly? 337,000, and that is "the most since it bought Nextel Communications Inc., amid complaints about dropped calls and poor reception." We guess they couldn’t get Gary out soon enough…
Yeah it's a sinking ship!
This isn’t totally unexpected, no? Sprint Nextel’s earning came out, and they reported a 77% drop in profit, while also cutting forecasts for next year. They’ve lost the most subscribers this quarter since 2005, maybe longer. Their third-quarter net income turned out to be only $64M! How many customers did they lose exactly? 337,000, and that is "the most since it bought Nextel Communications Inc., amid complaints about dropped calls and poor reception." We guess they couldn’t get Gary out soon enough…
Yeah it's a sinking ship!
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Good way to edit the poorly written article that is based off information from one quarter...while some of this information may be true, it's hardly fair to say the ship in sinking, in troubled waters, sure, but it's nothing that new management, a realigned company wide focus, and a good strategy couldn't turn around quickly, quickly meaning one or two years of course. Paul Saleh is already making great strides in getting the company focused and I'm sure Mr. Saleh, along with the board will choose a permanent CEO that will get Sprint where it needs to be, #1. Sprint has the resources to be the leader in the wireless industry...
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Thought it was net 60,000 subscribers lost? Do you have a link for where your getting your info? Not saying your wrong, I just read from rcrnews.com that it was 60,000, which of course could be wrong.
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bojmir said:
Thought it was net 60,000 subscribers lost? Do you have a link for where your getting your info? Not saying your wrong, I just read from rcrnews.com that it was 60,000, which of course could be wrong.
I think they lost 337,000 postpaid customers, but gained around 277,000 prepaid customers, which would total up to a net loss of customers of 60K?
Not saying for sure that's it, but it does make more sense.
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I would never wish any company go down like the Titanic but Sprint has been sealing it's own fate for quite some time now. Not the least of the which is Gary Forsee taking a great company like Nextel and running it in the ground. Enter their WiMax project which will pull needed cashflow away from fixing the poor reception of it's CDMA network and in the toilet outsourced customer service. They constantly run their new "Sprint Speed" TV and radio ads however EVDO high speed access is not available in the acquired affiliate markets. These are not markets out in the middle of nowhere but areas in which most have EVDO from Alltel or Verizon. Perhaps a new CEO with a take charge attitude will turn the company around. I hope so. I also hope they l...
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Nextel wsa great untill Sprint's Gary Forsee drove it into the ground! Your comments about IDEN being just for truck drivers and ghettos is just plain ignorant!!!!!
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Cellenator said:
Sink Ship SINK!!! 🤣
What Sprint needs to do is get more mid and upper level handsets and pronto!!
Phones that look cool are what’s driving sales a Verizon, AT&T and to a certain degree T-mobile…people don’t care about how much data you can get if your phones look like they came from Costco.
People didn’t go a fork over $400-600 to get an I-phone just because they loved ATT? ( And they sold a million plus so far….)
Forget about I-DEN, that tech is/was for ghetto duelers and truck drivers…you want direct connect, go buy a walkie talkie and be done with it.
The new models need to happen before Christmas time (holiday season) because all the other...
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Nextel wsa great untill Sprint's Gary Forsee drove it into the ground! Your comments about IDEN being just for truck drivers and ghettos is just plain ignorant!!!!!
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mark038 said:
Forget about I-DEN, that tech is/was for ghetto duelers and truck drivers…you want direct connect, go buy a walkie talkie and be done with it.
Hmmm... last I checked there was not a walkie talkie on the market that had an international range like the Nextel phones do. Kinda shoots a hole in your little "buy a walkie talkie" plan.
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