Sprint, Nextel Reach Tentative Merger Deal
Incidentals ..Job Stability....Name change...etc
Is the official name going to be "sprint-nextel" ?.....Doesn't flow off the tounge that great... guess it will take some time...Anyone Knows if any layoffs will affect either company Sprint employees are about 60,000 Half of the call centers I believe are Outsourced in Customer Service and IT.... Nextel about 15,000 ...and i believe and could be wrong but they donot have any company owned call .centers...both companies are non-unionized...I personally do not like speaking to someone in another country about my account.I believe the combined company will be trimming down there headcounts to fall more in line with the head counts of cingular and verizon which are at about 45,000-50,000 ..Im anticipating large layoffs on the sprint end of the ...
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alcoholic said:...
Is the official name going to be "sprint-nextel" ?.....Doesn't flow off the tounge that great... guess it will take some time...Anyone Knows if any layoffs will affect either company Sprint employees are about 60,000 Half of the call centers I believe are Outsourced in Customer Service and IT.... Nextel about 15,000 ...and i believe and could be wrong but they donot have any company owned call .centers...both companies are non-unionized...I personally do not like speaking to someone in another country about my account.I believe the combined company will be trimming down there headcounts to fall more in line with the head counts of cingular and verizon which are at about 45,000-50,000 ..Im anticipating lar
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Simple. Just keep doing what they've been doing. But they better get a move on buying that extra spectrum.
How is t-mobile going to compete now? Their parent duetsche telecom is large but still.
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The way to avoid the oligopoly is to get involved in making the smaller rural carriers bigger. the way that us cellular jumped on the nationwide scene last year when they turned to cdma and theyve been growing ever since. I happen to work for the 9th largest cell company in the country Rural cellular Corporation. Their DBA's are Cell One, and Unicel. They are switching to gsm this comming up year and they could become a major player soon as well. So the way to avoid the problem of non-competative ogioploys is to help make the smaller carriers bigger players, like happened to us cellular. then the huge companys have no choice but to stay competative because which customer really cares weather their carrier is on sale in 22 states or 50? as lo...
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The way to avoid the oligopoly is to get involved in making the smaller rural carriers bigger. the way that us cellular jumped on the nationwide scene last year when they turned to cdma and theyve been growing ever since. I happen to work for the 9th largest cell company in the country Rural cellular Corporation. Their DBA's are Cell One, and Unicel. They are switching to gsm this comming up year and they could become a major player soon as well. So the way to avoid the problem of non-competative ogioploys is to help make the smaller carriers bigger players, like happened to us cellular. then the huge companys have no choice but to stay competative because which customer really cares weather their carrier is
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noone really just taking a lot of what i read and ranting. but if you think about what i said its true ..isnt it?
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ok but as the 9th largest cell phone carrier that means u have less than 5 million customers which in turn means you will be bought out. Sorry. but you will. The cell phone industry is one of the most cut throat competitive industries (those of you who work in it can agree) I can see layoffs from both sides, but effectifly this will benefit Sprint more than it will benefit Nextel. This will give Sprint a more stable Motorola contract which they have been lackin for the past couple of years, more digital coverage in what we would call "rural" areas especially in the mountain states, and effectivly becoming 3rd largest above Tmobile which will cause their stock to rise nicely (which if u look, it already is). nextel needed a more consumer-mind...
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Sprint-Nextel will be the corporate name of the new company, but I'm guessing they will continue to operate separately to the public for a quite a while. It won't be fast like Cingular & AT&T.
Sprint-Nextel will need to converge on a single technology that is CDMA-based, has great PTT, and makes good use of their combined spectrum. That could take two years or more. They might just keep separate brands until then.
Then when they're ready to launch the new service, they could just come up with a new brand name for the whole company, like how "Verizon" replaced Bell Atlantic and GTE, and "Cingular" replaced the mobile brands of BellSouth and SBC.
Sprint-Nextel will need to converge on a single technology that is CDMA-based, has great PTT, and makes good use of their combined spectrum. That could take two years or more. They might just keep separate brands until then.
Then when they're ready to launch the new service, they could just come up with a new brand name for the whole company, like how "Verizon" replaced Bell Atlantic and GTE, and "Cingular" replaced the mobile brands of BellSouth and SBC.
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They wont need to. i-Den is a 1900 Mhz CDMA based tech. the only really big upgrade which will be provodided by Sprint will be for 3G/EV-D0 Services. What I can see tho is Sprint pullin more muscle and havin the name stay as just Sprint over anything else. At least they will try. As a former employee for Sprint, yeah they will push that.
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damn it i didnt mean to write CDMA, that should say TDMA, My bad. Sorry stil not awake yet
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No, as you corrected yourself, iDEN is TDMA-based technology, not CDMA like Sprint. Totally different.
Not only that, but iDEN operates in totally different spectrum. It's not 1900 MHz. iDEN operates in various 800-900 MHz bands, which aren't the same as the 800 MHz band that most Sprint phones can roam on. Different spectrum altogether.
And the 1900 MHz band that Nextel is getting from the FCC? Different from the 1900 MHz bands that Sprint operates on. Sprint works in the A-F blocks. Nextel's new PCS spectrum is the G block.
So... there is actually zero overlap between Nextel and Sprint when it comes to current spectrum and technology.
But looking toward the future, I really don't see it being that hard for them to migrat...
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Not only that, but iDEN operates in totally different spectrum. It's not 1900 MHz. iDEN operates in various 800-900 MHz bands, which aren't the same as the 800 MHz band that most Sprint phones can roam on. Different spectrum altogether.
And the 1900 MHz band that Nextel is getting from the FCC? Different from the 1900 MHz bands that Sprint operates on. Sprint works in the A-F blocks. Nextel's new PCS spectrum is the G block.
So... there is actually zero overlap between Nextel and Sprint when it comes to current spectrum and technology.
But looking toward the future, I really don't see it being that hard for them to migrat...
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Sprint already has great PTT called Ready-Link, I use it and am very satisfied. So I think they just have to convert Nextel customers handsets.
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Not everyone would agree that ReadyLink is "great". If you compare it head-to-head against Nextel's Direct Connect, Direct Connect will come out on top every time.
Trust me, if they just move all the Nextel folks to Sprint phones with ReadyLink, they'd have a lot of unhappy customers on their hands.
That's the last thing they need, especially when Verizon is getting ready to re-launch their PTT, and go after those customers directly anyway.
What Sprint-Nextel needs to do is come with a PTT tech that works even better than Direct Connect. That's not ReadyLink.
Trust me, if they just move all the Nextel folks to Sprint phones with ReadyLink, they'd have a lot of unhappy customers on their hands.
That's the last thing they need, especially when Verizon is getting ready to re-launch their PTT, and go after those customers directly anyway.
What Sprint-Nextel needs to do is come with a PTT tech that works even better than Direct Connect. That's not ReadyLink.
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Any concrete idea on what Verizon is going to do in order to improve its PTT? Rumors have been flying for months about how its going to be 'better' but when and how?
Any stats on how Sprint and Alltel are doing with their PTT compared to VZ?
Thanks.
Any stats on how Sprint and Alltel are doing with their PTT compared to VZ?
Thanks.
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Just like with the Cingular merger, I don't expect many layoffs in customer service. When you have X number of customers, you need Y number of customer service reps. That won't change with the new company. The layoffs will come from other departments.
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Hmmm think again, next year Cingular will be letting alot of people go, already several friends of mine have been told they need to cut their merged staff down and since cingular allows resellers (in NYC) to use the cingular name, they will be closing down several formerly ATT stores to cut cost and save money. Oh did I forget to mention those peoples will be pink slipped. And as for the customer service reps, the temps that were hired to fill the void will be let go beginning of next year, and alot of the old ATT customers service rep were told to look for other positions in the company or they need to start looking. Next year will be a very different Cingular.
At least they did not do it over the Holidays season.
At least they did not do it over the Holidays season.
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That doesn't make much sense to me. Of course there are layoffs after a merger like this, but in customer service?
That's not what Cingular has been saying publicly:
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That's not what Cingular has been saying publicly:
Some of Cingular's savings will come from lower marketing expenses, greater purchasing power and the integration of networks....
Other savings will stem from job reductions of at least 7,000 employees from the combined company's 68,000-member work force, as previously announced. Last month, Cingular said it plans to cut 10 percent of its work force in the next year and a half.
Most of the layoffs will occur in the administrative ranks and involve duplicated positions. Customer service would be largely undisturbed.
The move to keep the companies' customer-
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Yea, I work in the former ATTWS Customer Service. That is all that I have heard them saving. They will be laying 10% of the workforce, but staying away from the customer care department. It makes sense to me. Cut the people, increase the hold times.
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