Sprint Faces Off Against Hip MVNOs
Sprint is in Rough Shape....
Sprint is in a sad state of affairs. They just recently announced a layoff of 5,000 employees and reported a net loss of subscribers in the 4th qtr 2006. How do you lose customers during the Christmas season?
They have pulled out all the stops when it comes to attacking Cingular and other companies with their childish advertising strategies. And they now feel as though they have to change their rate plans to compete with MVNOs!
I guess they should have done their homework before their joint venture with Nextel, because now its down to the big 2 with Sprint fading fast.
They have pulled out all the stops when it comes to attacking Cingular and other companies with their childish advertising strategies. And they now feel as though they have to change their rate plans to compete with MVNOs!
I guess they should have done their homework before their joint venture with Nextel, because now its down to the big 2 with Sprint fading fast.
Sprint is in very good shape actually. I'd recommend you do some research when it comes to the layoff. That was done solely for reducing redundancies post-merger.
A company changing prices to compete? That's a new one.
How are their advertisi...
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Sprint is far from sad shape. Their 3G network and content is the best in the business by far. They did add 2.6 million customers which is quite respectable. They are undergoing an extremely complicated merger of billing and ordering systems and these...
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MVNO Uses Sprint dont they?
Why is Sprint basically in competition with cutting prices with itself. I just dont understand... the company (sprint) leases the network to Helio, so why are they cutting prices to match them? that sounds dumb to me
It's nice to finally see some real competition though. They are finally realizing what it's gonna take to gain and keep a "real" customer. Not the ones who switch just because, or because they don't like the phone. Now it will be truly who's got the b...
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Yeah, but if I were them, I would already feel "hip", I wouldn't need PhoneScoop to tell me! But you are right, it's nice to see these "start-ups" move into the "serious contender" phase!
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japhy said:
If I were Helio or Amp'd, I'd feel very complimented. 🙂
Well, if Hip=$120 bucks a month, then I feel ripped off.
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"Unlimited" is a relative term
I bet if you use the phone as your only ISP for a computer Sprint is going to hate you. Wasn't the term "unlimited" limited to 50 or so MB before.
Uh... this is Sprint. Unlimited is TRULY unlimited with them. Verizon is the company who sells "unlimited" service but then says, "But we'll cancel you if you use too much. Oh and don't use file sharing programs, use voip or anything else that uses ba...
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Wow
😳 Hope we get this in the Sacramento 😁 What a plan, its like the bundle offerings from att, but the bundle is all on your phone! If sprint went nationwide in this offering, in combination with their powerful music phones, it could take a lot of steam away from the iPhone release.
Sprint would change the pricing structure of the wireless industry with this offer. Sprint would have to reprice their plans from bottom to top and that would force Verizon, Cingular, T-Mobile and Alltel to do so also. MVNO's would have to lower thei...
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