Sprint's iDEN Base Drops 10% In One Quarter
Look at the Numbers
Without the loss of the iden customers, Sprint would have added 1.6 million subscribers in what is normally a slow quarter. These guys are finally starting to get back on track. It's too bad they had that Nextel merger.
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acdc1a said:
Without the loss of the iden customers, Sprint would have added 1.6 million subscribers in what is normally a slow quarter. These guys are finally starting to get back on track. It's too bad they had that Nextel merger.
Its too bad they STILL dont know what to do with it, and so they decide to close their eyes, grit their teeth and pretend that they arent still just throwing large chunks of Nextel away in hopes to keep a few subs in the aftermath.
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Sprint has lost iden subs in the past, no doubt. But the business at hand now of being required to vacate the spectrum isn't really their fault and could not have been known in advance, so hopefully their CDMA replacement will be good and they will keep most of what they have. Truth be told, the PTT on any other carrier that offers it is so bad that they won't win any iden diehards anyway.
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Are they being forced to vacate still? I thought this nationwide broadband initiative was supposed to be housing the EMS now so they were off the hook. very likely that i'm wrong... if so that really is a tragedy for nextel
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you are talking about the consensus plan. they do not have to vacate the entire spectrum. they will exchange some spectrum for some contig spectrum.
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"Without the loss of the iden customers, Sprint would have added 1.6 million subscribers in what is normally a slow quarter."
By the same logic, without the $352 million in losses, Sprint made a profit....
Look.....it doesn't work that way....you can't just wave your hand and declare an imminent crisis to be irrelevant.
By the same logic, without the $352 million in losses, Sprint made a profit....
Look.....it doesn't work that way....you can't just wave your hand and declare an imminent crisis to be irrelevant.
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No *Bleep*! You are the absolute KING of understatement, my friend. That's like saying it's too bad Eve ate that apple.
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Azeron said:
No *Bleep*! You are the absolute KING of understatement, my friend. That's like saying it's too bad Eve ate that apple.
The merger itself wasn't the problem; the problem was Sprint's inept handling of it at the time. I agree that things are finally much better there, but there's still the issue of the messy merger that nobody knows how to fully clean up.
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