Sprint to Risk $20 Billion on Apple iPhone
Not even the iPhone can save Sprint
freedom4u said:
hahaha i agree .. the end is near for the sprint and epic fail!!!! finally some good news! 😈
Yeah, you guys have been saying that for years now:
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Wrong then, wrong now. 😎
VZW611LA said:
When did they last post a profit? That's right. They will be bought out by different compaines once they get to a price they are worth.
How about the last 6 quarters? Go do a little research before posting stuff.
Even with the recent improvement, Sprint is STILL losing money.
For fiscal year 2010 Sprint lost over $3 billion.....this was considered an 'improvement' because a year earlier they were losing $10 billion
But they have NOT posted a profit in years....
I don't think they've posted a profit so far this century.
Eventually, they always get around to blaming ALL of Sprint's problems on the failed Nextel acquisition.
Wait for it...
how about spending that 20 billlions improving the networks instead?
people don't care how hot is your phone, if coverage sucks people will stay away!
No. Coverage is not the issue. This is always a misconception. Why do people always judge the rural coverage as being the huge selling point? The rural areas only make up about 18% of the wireless subscriber population. Sprint has service in the vast population of the country. For this reason alone, I have always contended and felt that people are paying more for something they don't need. I don't think it is in Sprint's best interest to spend billions o...
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Sadly though, the majority of the people in my area feel they need awesome rural coverage, when the majority hardly ever go to rural areas...
Regardless, Sprint needs to pull its pants up and work on coverage.
There was and is plenty of example with VZW and AT&T what to do and not to do before taking big ventures on Droids and IPhones.
Sprints network for what and where it is now is good.
The Metro/Rural issue does have an impact to an extent.
Big Red and Big Blue excel in those areas due to mergers and acquistions.
At&T's coverage if the T-Mobile merger goes through will improve nothing for AT&T.
The coverage will be exactly the same for AT&T but for T-Mobile it will improve.
Sprint should have worked on network coverage expansion a long time ago.
Listening to customer feedback is crucial and not the cor...
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John B.
Slammer said:
Sprint's position for coverage, ended when Verizon and AT&T worked and are still working as a cartel. No other carrier dare enter rural coverage areas for proposition. ATT and Verizon would only out bid them.
John B.
Unless you live in a rural area, roaming works just fine. I would rather have a phone that works everywhere I need it to than one that offers in-network coverage most places. at&t's rural coverage is still very poor compared to CDMA networks and Verizon restricts roaming in areas where they do have it. In other words, a Sprint phone will usually roam onto a partner network where there are in-coverage gaps, but Verizon usually does not. You just live with the gap and suck it up....
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netboy said:
...people don't care how hot is your phone, if coverage sucks people will stay away!
Dude- where have you been?
That statement stopped being true in, like, 2007.
The glitz and glamor of the handset IS the major selling point for wireless phones now.
It shouldn't be... improving coverage should matter, but it doesn't. As long as people keep gravitating away from voice services (that require 98% effectiveness to not be annoying) and keep adopting SMS, messaging apps and web-based means for communicating (which only require 80% effectiveness to be acceptable) the money isn't going to be there for building out new markets.
SO, I wish you were right, because I've devoted ...
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