User: bulldude
These are the most recent forum messages posted by bulldude:
Re: DT's negatives and benefits of a potential buyout of Sprint.
Hmmm... Synergies. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Or maybe you use it as many other use it, just as a buzzword. A new-found version of "et cetera," that vaguely implies "lay-off redundant employees and systems," but that's not what the word is supposed to mean.
Right now, I think that DT buying Sprextel would mean more hemorrhaging, not less.
Point by point:
1) Increase the spectrum position
Well, that's all fine ...
Re: listen up all big bosse's of vzw - yes i know who you all are -nym metro president..and his ny p
Relord said:
but remember VZW don't buy every other small carrier like At&T do! :o
Umm, in the interests of full disclosure, VZdub did buy RCC, right? For about the same price that AT&T paid for Dobson.
Re: listen up all big bosse's of vzw - yes i know who you all are -nym metro president..and his ny p
Sounds like someone couldn't meet his quota and got let go. Sorry dude. And just how did you get 5 employee lines again? It's obvious that you're smarter than all us VZW emps. I mean, you gladly paid ETFs when you could have bailed for free. That's some out-of-the-box thinking there. I don't think I ever would have thunk of that. Of course, not being in sales, I'm not worried that I'm ...
Re: vz navigator is not GPS?
I can confirm what the others have said below. VZNav uses GPS when it can and trilaterates (google that word, it's not the same as triangulate) off of cell towers when it can't get good satellite data. After it gets the route, it has to use GPS to track itself, otherwise the refresh speed would be painfully slow. On internal GPS, the chipset can update like every second or two. On working with an AGPS ...
Re: GSM network?
You really can't compare the 8 vs 40 because the 8 is on a narrowband freq (I forget, something like 200 KHz maybe) and the 40 is on a 1.25 MHz band. And that 40 is just a default #, I've seen 25 and I've seen > 70, well, in Erlangs at least... I think that voice quality and data speeds are pretty comparable between the two, although CDMA seems to have a bigger high speed data footprint. ...
Re: Star Code Designations
I would not use 922 or 923. They are used for e911 testing and they may (or may not) get you on the line with a emergency operator. Your location will not be sent to your phone using 922 or 923. It's not like a map will magically appear with your location on it. In fact, in many markets, 923 won't do diddly.
Re: Cingular 4th quarter results
Cingy had a great 4th quarter, no lie. But similar to Sprextel, the overall profitability of that 2.4 mil is not the same as 2.4 mil post paid. That is where the similarity ends. Sprextel has had infinitely more difficulty bringing together their two networks than Cingy/AT&T.
Side note -- Two years ago, everyone was all over post paid and the quarterly numbers were from almost all post paid customers. Those days are gone. ...
Re: Cingular 4th quarter results
OK, from RCRNews, http://www.rcrnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20070124/FREE/70124001/1002
And, since RCR won't be available for free tomorrow, the breakdown is:
746,000 Cingular Pre-paid
750,000 Resellers
861,000 Cingular Post-Paid
That doesn't quite reach 2.4000 million net adds, but close enough.
Re: Cingular 4th quarter results
OK, they're not bleeding customers like Sprextel. And 2.4 mil is nothing to sneeze at. VZ could get a ton of net adds and still look like the kind who got second place in the spelling bee.
Wait until Monday.
Re: Cingular 4th quarter results
I think what the article was saying is 861k post-paid, some other number pre-paid (in the article, but I'm too lazy to check, about the same # as the post-paid), and then another amount that makes up the remainder of the 2.4 million, so say another 700k or so. I think that last number is from resellers but I'm not sure. The total number quoted by AT&T (2.4 mil) is about three times the number of post-paid ...
Re: Cingular 4th quarter results
He may have a point.
http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/new sanalysis/techtelecom/10334489.html?cm_ven=YA HOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA
Would the difference be from resellers?
Re: Cingular 4th quarter results
That sounds great. Care to bet on VZ's numbers? They're due out on Monday.
Re: cingy won: can vzw, sprint, or t-mo ever catch up?
Dude, back away from the keyboard. I work for VZW and I'm embarassed by your post. Feel free to throw in a bit of punctuation now and then. And no, emoticons are not considered punctuation.
BTW, I'm an apple fiend and terribly jealous that Jobs is jobbing everyone except Cingy. But one phone is not going to make or break a company, especially one that's $500. You might be able to pass off ...
Re: Prediction for four quarter
I say a slight net customer loss. Maybe -15k or so. Despite the nice network and wide array of data products, tons of folks are churning off of the old Nextel side and that will hurt Sprint. Yes, I work for a competitor. No, I'm not a sales monkey drinking company koolaid. I think Sprint has a nice company but merged at the worst possible time.
Re: What is sprint going to do in 2007?
Rev A is a bit faster on the download but not by much. The two big improvements come from being able to lower the latency for packets coming from the tower to the phone (makes VoIP and Push To Talk palatable) and a much better uploading data rate.
Re: Your point is moot.
Nope, still wrong.
Re: And to go even further.....
Nope, you're wrong.
Re: Effect phones?
Slight increase on theoretical download speeds, you probably won't see it unless you are really close to a cell site. Big increase in upload speeds. Also big improvement in latency, meaning stuff like PTT and VoIP will work reasonable well with Rev A instead of just stinking up the joint with Rev 0.
Re: It was a very bad 3rd quarter for Sprint, but that was expected.
Ouch. Another rub (not that I relish seeing Sprextel having issues, even though I work for a rival) is that their best two numbers don't have much synergy. Data ARPU is based on postpaid users, not on Boost users. So they are advancing with Boost and with high end data stuff but don't seem to be able to get the two to build on each other. I dunno. Sprextel is huge and well funded. ...
Re: Too bad
Sounds like doublespeak to me. Assets? Like what? More money? More market share? Better personnel? I just don't see anything there that Sprint doesn't already have. This isn't a question of "Is Sprint+Nextel more than the sum of it's parts?" It is a question of "What assets does Nextel have to offer Sprint in the future, i.e., assets that Sprint hasn't alreay taken property of?"
Re: What about CDMA 900/1800
Two reasons, 1) VZW is a different company than VZ, Vodafone owns 45% or so. So to keep VZW from competing with Vodafone overseas, VZW is restricted by it's charter to working domestically, meaning only inside the US. So VZW only sells phones designed to work on US CDMA, not on other CDMA bands. They do sell a CDMA/GSM phone to work in Europe, but that's the exception to the rule. 2) The US FCC ...
Re: Too bad
nextel18 said:
Don’t forget, they have Nextel’s assets too.
I know I'm coming in on this late, but what exactly does this mean?
Re: August Giveaway #3: Two Motorola Qs
Hook me up! Aug 18th is my birthday!
Re: Questionnnssss about GPS
Yup, VZW and Sprint/Nextel are the two companies who offer GPS nav systems. Couldn't tell you which is better, as I only see the VZW half of the equation, but they are probably pretty equal as far as accuracy of directions and such. I have a slight bias against the Nextel version, as it only works in the car, not so well in the car garage. VZW & Sprint won't work all that well, but they are ...
Re: Correct information
Right now it's just the Migo that can be tracked. There will be other phones later this year or early next year that will be trackable. Marketing wants to get a phone that Middle Schoolers and High Schoolers would enjoy but for now it's only the Migo.
Re: Where's Nextel18 with this?
Nextel18 comes and goes. He'll go weeks between posts sometimes so I don't necessarily think this is him hiding. He'll post eventually. It might be spin, but he'll post eventually.
Re: Verizon navigator question
Nope, subscription means you subscribe. You get charged 9.99 a month until you cancel.
Pronunciation
Do you say "Fyoozic" or "Fuzzic"? :wink:
Re: E815 or 325?
V325 does offer VZNav. E815 doesn't. While this app isn't for everyone, it is a life saver when you need it.
Re: LG Migo
Gotta respect a phone that comes with stickers. Not just wristbands, but stickers.
Re: GPS Family Locator
And other phones will follow to use these services, of course. Not as broad as Sprint's offering of LBS phones, but not bad.
Re: iTunes to increase prices
Maybe I'm missing something, but this article doesn't say that iTunes is raising it's prices, just that they are getting pressure to do so.
Re: Leading independent research crap and Cingualr claims
Hmmm... Well, working where I work, folks are taking this seriously. Very seriously. I think the telephia report might be more unbiased that you think. I've worked with telephia for other stuff, everything seemed on the up and up. Of course, like you pointed out, JD Power used a different methodology, perhaps one more comprehensive. I still think that the telephia report and Cingy claim is more than mere spin.
Re: Leading independent research crap and Cingualr claims
Looking over their mgmt team, you could also add Sid Gorham's relationship to AirTouch (now owned by Vodafone and expressed here as VZW). But wouldn't anyone with wireless telecom experience have to have worked with one of the carriers previously? I mean, how much of a guru could you have become without your connection to Sprint and Nextel? Does that mean that you could claim to be "indpendent," as Telephia claims to be, and yet still ...
Re: Leading independent research crap and Cingualr claims
Telephia also does a lot of testing for customer churn. Folks porting in and out, etc.
Re: Leading independent research crap and Cingualr claims
What ties does Telephia have with bellsouth?
Re: Another nickle and diming scheam
Actually, the price looks pretty low. VZNav is 9.99 per month.
Re: V325 Dreaded Low battery - ?? Gunny you can deal with this ?
Actually, my experience is that it lasts a bit longer than the v710 0r v265 unless you use that GPS thingy.
Re: huh?
Naah, you can't blame the kid for braggin'. It's not polite, but I don't lose any sleep over nextel18 being impolite anymore. That's part of his "special charm." In fact, when he polite, humble, or apologetic (he has been so in the past, Cub Scout's Honor, I've seen it), I'm usually so overwhelmed that I have to stop and take my pulse.
Re: Cingulars Claim
Lots of folks I've spoken with at VZW are not pleased. They take this for real. No, not folks in the stores, folks in the network.
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