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xTresx Regular Visitor
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Mar 20, 2011 3:30 PM

AT&T buys T-Mobile: *** sprint?

Sprint made a biggest mistake not to buy tmobile: It gonna cost sprint to its death.

*** going on at Kansas City? I'm sprint wont be able to complete in the market anymore. In the end, sprint will be bought by verizon. Shame on sprint.

Tags: network, merger, sprint, ***, tmobile
  • DONALIEN Sprint Tech
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    1. Mar 20, 2011 3:47 PM (in response to xTresx)
    AT&T buys T-Mobile: *** sprint?

    Well, considering that T-Mobile uses a GSM network it wouldn't make much business sense for us to buy them because we would have to convert their entire network to CDMA.

  • halcyoncmdr123 Sprint Employee
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    2. Mar 20, 2011 4:24 PM (in response to xTresx)
    AT&T buys T-Mobile: *** sprint?

    In case you didn't notice, Sprint purchased Nextel back in 2005 and has been running two entirely incompatible networks since then. Running two networks simultaneously is very difficult to manage. Add to that the rollout of the 4G network. I can't even begin to imagine what it would be like adding GSM to the mix.

     

    Verizon purchasing Alltel made sense, both CDMA. AT&T buying T-mobile makes sense, both GSM. Sprint buying Nextel, brought in a huge chunk of 2.5GHz spectrum and business/government contracts, and the fastest PTT network.

  • xTresx Regular Visitor
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    3. Mar 20, 2011 5:21 PM (in response to xTresx)
    Re: AT&T buys T-Mobile: *** sprint?

    Sprint could benefit from extra frequencies that tmobile own. On top of that, it would have helped to roll out LTE on the tmobile frequency. I don't think the at&t buyout of tmo was based in network compactibility but rather the userbase. we are been squeezed out and becomes unimportant and in the furture we could be a laughingstock just like US Cellular. Tmo could operate simultaneously with sprint without switching until the switch to LTE.

    One thing that I dont understand is: sprint takes forever to make decisions which becomes obsolete by the time implementation. Value-wise, you can't compare tmobile with nextel.

     

    1. Wimax vs LTE (*** sprint ended up in wimax anyway)
    2. takes too long to flip the nextel kill switch in order to utilize the frequency band on 4G (Just kill the nextel, offer the same feature for those who wants in cdma if possible, but use the bandwidth to expand the 4G)
    3. pass-on tmobile deal (which could have brought extra freq bandwidth to the network)
    4. palm pre deal, not much windows 7phone (palm was a mess,  please include good winMo 7 phones. There are too much of android phones which all look the same and android OS is outdated every 6 months)

    

    Well, we just missed the bus again, altogether...oh well.

  • KSMASSEY Newbie
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    4. Mar 20, 2011 7:21 PM (in response to xTresx)
    AT&T buys T-Mobile: *** sprint?

    We didnt really want Tmo for its network, maybe its bandwidth but certainly for its customers. But in the end letting AT&T take it is fine with me. Taking on another network conversion would have been the biggest mistake. Do you know how expensive it is to convert over on that scale??

    Sprint will be killing off iden as soon as we can get all the nextel customers over to a new direct connect on cdma. When that happens an enormous amount of bandwidth will open up data service to levels the other big carriers could only dream about. The best is yet to come.

    As for a Win 7 phone the HTC Arrive has arrived. Watch the announcements tomorrow at the CTIA. Im ready for great things to some out this week. Cant wait!

  • raechel14 Regular Visitor
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    5. Mar 20, 2011 7:49 PM (in response to xTresx)
    AT&T buys T-Mobile: *** sprint?

    All this **** better stabilize. If Sprint doesn't have a game plan and share it with us all... well lets just say people will be breaking contracts and jumping ship like rats.

    Fear makes people do crazy things. I admit I looked at both AT&T Plans and Verizon Plans today. Crummy pricing indeed, and very confusing. Come on Sprint, figure out your angles and share them quick.

  • TK241 Silver Expert
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    6. Mar 21, 2011 1:34 AM (in response to raechel14)
    AT&T buys T-Mobile: *** sprint?

    raechel14 wrote:

     

    All this **** better stabilize. If Sprint doesn't have a game plan and share it with us all... well lets just say people will be breaking contracts and jumping ship like rats.

    Fear makes people do crazy things. I admit I looked at both AT&T Plans and Verizon Plans today. Crummy pricing indeed, and very confusing. Come on Sprint, figure out your angles and share them quick.

    True enough, but i just thought of something here, this could be a real nice advertising coup for Sprint if they were to, as the teacher that trained me to run lights for concerts in highschool put it, "throw the right switches".  What do i mean?  Simple.  Sprint could start running commercials (mabey bring back the Trench Coat Guy ) that kinda make light of this new AT&T/T-Mobile thingy, and mabey diss them a bit.  If Sprint were to play this right it could get kinda fun to watch from an advertising point of view.  Just some food for thought.  N9NRA

  • goygacon Silver Expert
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    7. Mar 21, 2011 1:45 AM (in response to halcyoncmdr123)
    AT&T buys T-Mobile: *** sprint?

    IDEN PTT will be dead in 2 years in favor of CDMA.  Buying Nextel was a bad business decision.

    AT$T buying T-Mobile will create a monopoly....Something Sprint has issues with, something ALL customers should have an issue with, and the D.O.J. will have to consider before approving such a merger.

    Looks like Sprint will be getting more T-Mobile defects due to AT$T's 4gb data limit...amongst other problems..

    Gotta wait on the verdict..

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