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now can sprint disappear pretty please???

flash400runner

Jun 6, 2008, 5:50 PM
as a former employee of sprint and a card carrying member of vzw(even while i was working for sprint if that tells you something about that company...lol)...they just need to buy sprint/nextel soon and take over the cdma market. vzw has the money to spend and sprint cant keep taking the losses it has been for the past 2 years.

just imagine....evdo and 1x coverage everywhere you go....it would be the perfect company.

1-verizon buys sprint/nextel
2-verizon sells the iden goverment for bookoo money
3-its all a wash and vzw just gained about 40mil customers.

do it!
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flash400runner

Jun 6, 2008, 5:51 PM
sorry...heres how the steps should have looked like

1-verizon buys sprint/nextel
2-verizon sells the iden network to the goverment for bookoo money
3-its all a wash and vzw just gained about 40mil customers.
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jskrenes

Jun 6, 2008, 7:06 PM
Sprint has been looking to sell the iden network for some time with no success. Whoever buys Sprint, and someone will soon, has to assume that iden will be a loss. If I were to buy Sprint,I would not be able to shut down Nextel fast enough. No new contracts would be signed by any Nextel customer, no new iden devices, free comparable CDMA/GSM devices for all Nextel customers, no ETFs for people wishing to leave, and all iden towers and devices decommissioned within six months. You could do it if you were either VZW or ATT. With all due respect to iden customer loyalty, every day iden is still active is a step backwards for the cellular industry.
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algorithmplus

Jun 6, 2008, 7:16 PM
I somewhat agree. I think 6 months would be a little ambitious, but it would depend on the circumstances. Deutsch Telekom could buy them and expand the T-Mobile network and transition everything to that brand and network with HSUPA coverage.

However, with construction slowing down, so also is the need for Nextel services. When Nextel was a separate company, it had a good brand reputation, which has now been shot.
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yesVZW

Jun 7, 2008, 12:11 AM
Why buy them when all their customers are porting to ATT and VZW by the thousands daily. Eventually there will be nothing left and one of the big carriers can pick it up for pennies.
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algorithmplus

Jun 7, 2008, 2:53 PM
yesVZW said:
Why buy them when all their customers are porting to ATT and VZW by the thousands daily. Eventually there will be nothing left and one of the big carriers can pick it up for pennies.

Remember that Deutsch Telekom is German and used Euros. With the dropping value of the United States Dollar (USD), it won't be long and a foreign company can actually buy it for pennies to their dollar (or Euro).
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JeffdaBeat

Jun 7, 2008, 8:15 AM
No major carrier can buy another after this. It is making competition impossible at this point. Sprint will either be bought by an overseas company or not at all. If Verizon bought Sprint, which they really don't have the money for now, you would only have two GIANTS and T-mobile. And the US has laws against companies doing that.
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RnBsupastar

Jun 8, 2008, 7:32 PM
Are you guys excluding the regional carriers?
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luckie7

Jun 7, 2008, 2:03 PM
🙄

Let me guess, you didn't choose to leave Sprint did you? Sounds like someone is a little bitter. . .
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algorithmplus

Jun 7, 2008, 2:54 PM
luckie7 said:
🙄

Let me guess, you didn't choose to leave Sprint did you? Sounds like someone is a little bitter. . .

Someone probably lost their job to India.
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