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Deutsche Telekom May Sell T-Mobile USA to Sprint

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If Sprint every buys T-Mobile...

justfinethanku

Mar 8, 2011, 7:51 PM
...I will quit this job.
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Black_Beard

Mar 8, 2011, 8:01 PM
I fear i wont have a job left to quit 🤣
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Jayshmay

Mar 8, 2011, 9:50 PM
Well, hopefully there will be room for you somewhere in the industry.
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Black_Beard

Mar 9, 2011, 2:53 PM
oh Yeah I'm not stressing it ... Ive never not been able to find a job since I've been 14. lol
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Slammer

Mar 8, 2011, 8:01 PM
At 50 years old, it's too late for me to make a career change. But given the opportunity to work for a carrier that has proven to make a great turnaround, aggressively pursuing the ventures to enhance a customers experience and hold some integrity of realism in the wireless industry, I would be jumping all over it.

John B..
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SublimeDavid

Mar 8, 2011, 9:48 PM
Just a rumor man, I said it before I'll say it again, DT wont take anything but the minimal 50% take in a new entity just like they did Orange in the UK. Tmo is a cash cow to DT and they will want to make sure that they keep receiving money fromm that cash cow. They probably will end up buying sprint if anything since they have publicly said that data is the future. Buying sprint and owning clearwire would be a clear step towards this goal while ensuring capital keeps going to the mother ship in Germany, like it or not DT shareholders are incredibly greedy ( I know surprise )
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Slammer

Mar 8, 2011, 10:56 PM
I sort of agree. But I think it may be more than a rumor this time around. Whether or not the union takes place, does not change the scope of the landscape. Both parties are in need of serious marketshare ante. Sprint needs to modify their current condition. They have improved on many internal issues as well as elevating the outside operation and experience to end users, yet they are still stagnant in gaining an increased marketshare. DT and TMO have a long history of inconsistency in direction for US operations. It always appears every few months, they just shoot in the air and see where the penny lands. This never helps their positioning. While TMO has had some financial backing from DT, it has essentially only limited itself to just rem...
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Jayshmay

Mar 8, 2011, 9:49 PM
Yikes!
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pickles

Mar 8, 2011, 10:06 PM
just quit right now, then. if tmo and sprint combined, you'd quit? why? what a stupid comment to make.
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Caucasian

Mar 9, 2011, 9:57 AM
Why? Because after talking so much **** about Sprint on a forum message board you'd have too much "pride"?

The company is doing great, and is a significantly better company now than when I started in '06.

My pay has improved, even people who don't work in commissioned sales can still get incentive based payouts, as well as incentive based payouts for stock purchase. Amazing health insurance coverage. My phone bill, with insurance on my Samsung Epic (unlimited use), and a Galaxy Tab (also unlimited) run me 20+change every month.

Hard to beat, and for where I live, the pay is outstanding even though I don't work in sales, I fix stuff.

And one thing to consider is T-Mobile is wanting this to happen too. Your head honchos obviousl...
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-Devastator-

Mar 9, 2011, 10:24 AM
Fix stuff? If by fix stuff you mean you are a TSR in a Full Service store then you, and I, will be out on our butts looking for a job.

As an ex-Tmobile employee, and a current Sprint Technician, IF they decide to merge, dump CDMA, and go GSM, there are no need for techs, period. The whole Service & Repair dept will cease to exist. Ask your SRSS.
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Caucasian

Mar 9, 2011, 10:34 AM
Wow, signed up just to make that comment, eh?

No, Sprint won't switch from CDMA to GSM. It would be silly to take the company with the smaller foot print.

And I worked for a local GSM carrier that did service and repair as well before I moved here in '06, I actually miss that because you could swap out phone mainboards since the device itself wasn't active, the SIM was. Made someone with a busted charging port or board level stuff we consider DBR really easy to fix.

The switch to LTE is very likely, and I actually hope they do make the change if it is well executed. With us not being in charge of the WiMAX network we can't guarantee the kind of smooth transition we want. If we jump into LTE on our own, I think the experience would ...
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ButtaKnife

Mar 9, 2011, 10:42 AM
I think they want to merge so they can combine assets to deploy one LTE network rather than two smaller LTE networks. They'll still need to keep their CDMA and GSM networks for a while for their current customers, so the idea that Sprint would dump CDMA or vice versa is silly.
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justfinethanku

Mar 9, 2011, 1:04 PM
Actually, The company I work for right now used to sell both Sprint and T-Mobile. We would sell the hell out of both of the companies and get royally screwed when it came time for Sprint to payout commissions and spiff. The company had the worst track record I have EVER seen in that area along.

Not to mention the horrible amount of charge-backs and churning coming from SPRINT THEMSELVES. You work your ass of convincing a customer they should purchase Sprint only to have them return it a week later after calling corporate to dispute the insane charges on their bills.

And the billing system, jeez... who ever thought of pro-rating a customer 1/2 month, charging them for the entire next month and THEN stacking a few activation fees on to...
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justfinethanku

Mar 9, 2011, 1:07 PM
Finding a new job is a walk in the park.
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Caucasian

Mar 9, 2011, 2:42 PM
I don't sit in a cubical and answer phone calls. I stand in the middle of a mall and get screamed at by complete scumbags who feel like it's completely valid to curse out another human being for no reason. I've had phones thrown at me because I was not able to fix their bill.


Finding a new job is a walk in the park.


Clearly.

Remember, it doesn't even take a high school diploma to do what anyone in the retail side of this does.
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Azeron

Mar 9, 2011, 7:45 PM
Really? Charisma is more important than book smarts at something? Imagine!
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pickles

Mar 9, 2011, 4:42 PM
dude, come on. you're one of the few reasonable people left in this crazy place....be reasonable. you only need a HS diploma for most sales jobs. i don't care what your resume looks like, you're replaceable. don't be so sure you can instantly find a better job if you do decide to quit yours on a whim. i'm not talking ish, i'm being real. we are ALL replaceable in this industry....not even just this industry, good sales people in general are pretty much interchangeable.
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Azeron

Mar 9, 2011, 1:10 PM
"I don't sit in a cubical and answer phone calls. I stand in the middle of a mall and get screamed at by complete scumbags who feel like it's completely valid to curse out another human being for no reason. I've had phones thrown at me because I was not able to fix their bill."

I've done both and I'd rather do sales. Imagine being chained to a cubicle and STILL getting cursed out and not being able to hang up the phone, every call recorded every break scrutinized... Damn, I hate call centers.
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Caucasian

Mar 9, 2011, 2:44 PM
Now I know exactly why I will never work for a 3rd party retailer.

Thanks.
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JeffroPuff

Mar 10, 2011, 5:19 PM
Don't be so quick to dimiss it. I've worked both sides - corporate and indirect for years. I can say absolutely that I LOVE indirect. It gives me the freedom to run my business as efficiently as I can without having to report in to corporate whenever an employee sneezes or get berated on conference calls every day. It's a thousand times better in my experience. You just have to work for a good dealer (or run your own)
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CamelTowing

Mar 9, 2011, 10:03 PM
Wtf is an "every buy"? 🤣
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justfinethanku

Mar 10, 2011, 3:14 PM

Wtf is an "every buy"? 🤣


Similar to "Every buys"

#correctionfail
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