Sprint Announces First CDMA Direct Connect Phones

And yet companies like Tmobile, Alltel and numerous other carriers that supposedly have had better management and reputations than Sprint, are gone or in the process of being extinct.

In business, you don't necessarily have to be the best. You just need to outlast everyone else. That is exactly what Sprint is doing.

No matter how you feel about Sprint, they are surviving and have made great progress in recognizing mistakes. The new PTT is going to be different and a vast improvement than the older variant. Their slow down in 4G, is to rorganize their direction in 4G. Their transition to LTE. Expanding their native footprint of coverage with their network initiative program and to also bring better in building reception. Continual handset selection that has grown respectively daily. Best postpaid plans in the business. Recognizing the customer's need to curb bloatware and bootloading complaints.

I think you greatly underestimate Sprint and what they have accomplished while the other so called better or more respectable carriers have failed to survive. This couldn't have been done if everyone that has Sprint thought like you. Fortunately, many love what Sprint stands for. I know that they have gained my respect. Are they perfect? I think we all know the answer to this question towards Sprint and to other the carriers as well.

This is from a consumer's view, not a rep's biased analogy.

John B.