T-mobile & Sprint Merger Back in the News.

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 19:59:10 +0000 (UTC), Steve Sobol
<sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote:

>On 2008-03-07, Andrew267@gmail.com <Andrew267@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I had some info. on this in Feb 2007, now just a year later it's being
>> printed again.
>>
>> Take a look.
>>
>> http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/520687.html
>
>I could see benefits to customers of both T-Mo and Sprint/Nextel if this
>happens. T-Mo doesn't have a fully-deployed data network yet, in the US.
>Sprint's customer service sucks, while T-Mo's consistently ranks at or near
>the top in the various surveys (and my experiences with T-Mo customer service
>have been quite positive).
>
>Will be interesting to see if this happens.


If one actually reads the story its the guess work on one Wll Street
Analyst, based upon Zip, nada, nothing.

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:27:01 -0600, Ron <ron.clifford@peoplepc.com>
wrote:

>On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 19:59:10 +0000 (UTC), Steve Sobol
><sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote:
>
>>On 2008-03-07, Andrew267@gmail.com <Andrew267@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I had some info. on this in Feb 2007, now just a year later it's being
>>> printed again.
>>>
>>> Take a look.
>>>
>>> http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/520687.html
>>
>>I could see benefits to customers of both T-Mo and Sprint/Nextel if this
>>happens. T-Mo doesn't have a fully-deployed data network yet, in the US.
>>Sprint's customer service sucks, while T-Mo's consistently ranks at or near
>>the top in the various surveys (and my experiences with T-Mo customer service
>>have been quite positive).
>>
>>Will be interesting to see if this happens.
>
>
>If one actually reads the story its the guess work on one Wll Street
>Analyst, based upon Zip, nada, nothing.

Right. This is perhaps the dumbest story ever printed. It appears that
the unnamed analyst, which right there gives you a big idea into the
validity of the supposed rumor, is just looking at it purely from a
financial standpoint and not a technical one.

The notion that a price war would force a financially healthy company
like T-M into doing something with a financialy UNhealthy company like
Sprint-Nextel is pretty dumb. Fact is, any public company is
technically for sale every day, but very little happens in terms of
rumors becoming fact. The technological hurdles to this one alone seem
to make it beyond laughable.

The best opportunity T-M has had since taking that name in the U.S.
following the VoiceStream deal was to buy the original AT&T Wireless
when it could be had at bargain basement prices. At that point,
neither had invested significant money into a next-generation network,
they both had compatible technologies and integration would have been
relatively easy -- at least for two companies of that size.

But they passed and we have the market sector that's present now. I
don't see it changing anytime soon unless Verizon/Vodafone wanted to
make a run for Sprint/Nextel. That too is unlikely since Verizon's
spending heavily to roll out FIOS across the Northeast.

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At 11 Mar 2008 11:43:02 -0400 Cyrus Afzali wrote:

> The best opportunity T-M has had since taking that name in the U.S.
> following the VoiceStream deal was to buy the original AT&T Wireless
> when it could be had at bargain basement prices. At that point,
> neither had invested significant money into a next-generation network,
> they both had compatible technologies and integration would have been
> relatively easy -- at least for two companies of that size.
>
> But they passed and we have the market sector that's present now. I
> don't see it changing anytime soon unless Verizon/Vodafone wanted to
> make a run for Sprint/Nextel. That too is unlikely since Verizon's
> spending heavily to roll out FIOS across the Northeast.


Not to mention that there's really nothing in it for Verizon. When
Cingular acquired AT&T, it gained a bunch of markets it had no presence in
(like New York, and my own Denver) and obtained vital 800MHz spectrum in
many areas it had none (California for example.)

Sprint operates in pretty much the same markets as Verizon already, so what
would Verizon gain in buying Sprint? More customers? They don't need to
buy those, they can just sit back and wait for them to churn for free! ;-)

>
> Sprint operates in pretty much the same markets as Verizon already, so
> what
> would Verizon gain in buying Sprint? More customers? They don't need to
> buy those, they can just sit back and wait for them to churn for free!
> ;-)
>

I believe that the churn will decline because Sprint will turn-it-around.
Sprint has a relly good network, they just need to improve in the areas of
advertising, customer service and especially customer relations.