Actually, the 'new billing system' that sprint is in the process of
migrating all of its custoemrs to, is the same platform that T-mobile
uses.
This might be a shocker, but that particular system was originally
created for 'Nextel' ...go figure. Each of the copanies name the
system
something different. T-mobile calls their's 'Sampson', while Sprint's
seems to go by many different names. UBP, Ensemble, USC, CSM,
sView, nView, many other's that we mutter under our breath when it is
running really slow..... :-) BUT, the program itself is called
Customer Service Management, and was created or at least marketed by
Amdocs. When I worked for T-mobile a few years ago, I would
always get a little bit of a kick out of pulling up the billing
system, and seeing 'Nextel' on the flash page as it opened.

I think it would be a strain still trying to mix the two [3?]
technologies, but the article did say it was Deutsche Telekom, that
'MAY consider it.
It would not be unthinkable that they would leave the 2 companies
completely or mostly seperate in their operations. Again this is all
just
speculation, and neither one of the companies makes it a habbit to
talk abot rumors of mergers. It seemed that while I was working with
T-mo
that we were rumored to be being taken over by some company or other
about every other week. And yet... it did not happen.

On Mar 7, 3:41*pm, "Todd Allcock" <eleccon...@AmericaOnLine.com>
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> "Steve Sobol" <sjso...@JustThe.net> wrote in message
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> > On 2008-03-07, Andrew...@gmail.com <Andrew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I had some info. on this in Feb 2007, now just a year later it's being
> >> printed again.
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> >> Take a look.
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> >>http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/520687.html
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> > 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).
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> > Will be interesting to see if this happens.
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> Hmmm- a merger of two carriers using completely different technologies and
> billing systems that cater to different demographics. *How could that plan
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