User: Iknownothing
These are the most recent forum messages posted by Iknownothing:
Re: Without lowering the plan price, you are being double charged for the handset. ..
Carriers love being in the phone subsidy business. It allows them to overcharge you for the phone and it is essentially the only thing that allows them to charge you an etf. The fact that they offer exactly 0 incentive to purchase the phone at retail prices should be the big clue.
Re: Don't Know Who ATT Thinks They're Fooling
Why is that a "good thing"?
Re: Don't Know Who ATT Thinks They're Fooling
There's always Comcast, don't forget about Comcast._
Re: FCC Strikes Back
Never trust a man with an agenda. You sir, have an agenda.
Re: FCC Strikes Back
Yeah, so what's your agenda? Because this article has nothing to do with sprint or job outsourcing.
Re: Could see this coming but....
My message was not addressed to you and your question was not interesting to me.
The answer, however, is that if sprint followed anything resembling standard accounting practices then this will have no impact on their bottom line.
Re: Could see this coming but....
Reading comprehension is at an all time low. LS payed Sprint a 65 million dollar deposit for the right to piggyback sprint's lte deployment. Sprint simply is going to repay them. This means essentially that Dan Hesse entered into an agreement where his worst case scenario amounted to a 65 million dollar interest free loan. This would widely be considered good management.
Re: LOL
I'm sorry to be rude but it's clear you have no idea how money works, let alone business. Sprint received the equivalent of a 65 million dollar 6 month interest free loan. There is absolutely no way that is a bad thing for Sprint.
For example, lets say sprint put the money into a 6 month cd earning 3 percent (lamest investment tool I can think of) simple interest alone makes them a million dollars. ...
Re: Desperate!
I believe lighrsquared is paying sprint.
http://mobile.pcmag.com/device2/article.php?C ALL_URL=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817, 2389312,00.asp
Re: Desperate!
First, the reason for sprints investment in WiMAX is well documented. They would forfeit the spectrum gained from the Nextel acquisition if they did not deploy a next gen network in a certain time period. Wimax was ready, lte was not, pure and simple.
Also to the best of my knowledge sprint does not actually have wimax on,any of its own towers. That network is owned and operated entirely by clear.
Re: Desperate!
Sprint does not need lightsquared to help them build their network. That was never the deal. Lightsquared hired Sprint to help them (lightsquared) build their network. In exchange Sprint would gain use of LS's spectrum. Sprint is building the network either way.
Re: "and with an obsolete definition of "harmful interference"
Actually this was a no risk decision by sprint. Lightaquared was paying them, not the other way around. I think sprint made something in the order of hundreds of millions without actually doing anything.
Re: You know what WOULD create more jobs?
Corporations have too much power over the government, so your solution is to weaken the government? This makes no sense.
Re: Fair weather lawsuits
I'm pretty sure that if the doj were "owned by Verizon" they wouldn't be suing to block this merger.
Re: It's about time....I love it!!!!!
This is why commas matter.
Steve you magnificent son of a...
Men of a singular vision are often difficult to like, I seldom agreed with either his vision or the Vlad the impaler style wuth which he executed it. They are however easy to admire and i certainly admire Steve. He stands as one of the great titans of american industry. He turned a small company into a colossus and then did it again when that company was failing.
So here's to you, steve. I wish you ...
trouble with evdo
Is anyone else in the San Francisco bay area having trouble with their data. My phone cannot establish an evdo data connection.
Re: The law breaking the law
Erm... Considering it was bart police that shut down the service and BART police are very much police I fail to see your point.
Re: San Francisco
Please clarify your meaning. I'm struggling to understand.
Re: GPS is 1-way
This is why its important to click the source link and read the actual article before ironically yammering on in a way that sounds authoritative... But isn't.
Re: 4G Coverage
That was not possible given the requirements placed on them by the federal gov. after the Nextel acquisition.
Re: Much ado about nothing.
Since Sprint, with considerably fewer resources, has built and maintained a network universally acknowledged to be superior to at&t's; this is really more like Einstein trying to explain his great idea to a retard than the other way around.
Now if Sprint were attempting to tell at&t how to expand their customer base with relentless and misleading advertising, or through never ending aquisitions and purchasong subscribers so as to never have to compete by improving their network then I ...
Re: Much ado about nothing.
Best internet rope-a-dope I've ever seen. You, sir, are full of rockin awesomeness.
Re: No
I cried a little when I read that. Mostly because it was funny, but a little because of how sad it made me.
Re: No
I'm sorry how much money does at&t have? And how many markets do they have hspa+ in? Compared to little old Sprint? I find your comment equally confusing and amusing.
Re: STFU Sprint!
If we agree that at&t is lying (because they pretty obviously are) then who would you prefer to point it out? Would you rather they lie with absolute impunity? I am confused by your stance.
Re: Sprint Sucks
Just talked to Sprint, they said you suck. I tried to argue but they weren't having any of it.
Re: Situation
It depends on the three carrier's relative strengths. If there are three roughly equal carriers then three may be a viable number. One could argue that its a different story when 2 of those carriers would have over 80% of the market.
Re: Way to go Sprint.
These three companies that make up the new at&t... What are their histories? The companies that merged to form Verizon, where were they from?
And I wonder why Verizon doesn't complain about this? Could it be that there is no possible scenario where they don't win from this?
Re: Why is it I fear logic won't prevail
I agree. And how could at&t possibly be that confident? What could possibly convince at&t that gobbling up some 40% of the market share would be allowed so much so that they would bet billions on it? The potential answers disturb me greatly.
Re: STFU Sprint!
If you don't see it by you it must not be happening.... There or anywhere. Try again.
Re: STFU Sprint!
Did I miss the part of the article where Sprint asked for control of at&t? Any amount of thoughtful analysis of.the two companies would yield always the same conclusion; that even in the darkest days of Sprint's prior bad management they managed their network better than at&t.
And at&t can sit on as much spectrum as they like provided it doesn't negatively impact their network. Only their network is universally understood to be overloaded. They've been on ...
Re: I don't think this is a fair review either.
I don't think they have enough of it to deloy Lte. They're moving their base cdma to that spectrum. Look for the Lte in the 1900 mhz spectrum they clear. Or if lightsquared can get their act together...
Re: consumer reports
I don't understand. How is consumer reports biased and against whom? What does this bias consist of? At&t is also ranked lowest by jd power, do they share the same bias?
You say you used to rage in your head when one of your customers would cite consumer reports, again I'm confused. Are you saying that your experience in an electronics showroom is more valuable in determining quality than the experience of buying the appliances in ...
Re: AT&T ISN'T PLAYING AROUND...
I think what you gave is an example of why relying on a reputable company that tests equipment is a beneficial thing to check. Not only that but if what your saying is true then the phenomenon would affect all products equally and in now way diminish Tue average user score.
Re: AT&T ISN'T PLAYING AROUND...
Did they also bribe jd power? When Sprint was at the bottom who was bribing them?
Re: Sprint 4g Sucks
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1324107736.pn g
Re: did i read that right?
This is presumably the same interest as the company in which they invest.
did i read that right?
Is this investor asking clear to sacrifice it's (and possibly sprint's) long term stability for the sake of a higher sale price? Am I missing something? I genuinely want to know.
I'm confused
If they're "getting rid of a failing company while they can" then why are they keeping 90 percent of their shares?
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