On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:19:42 -0800, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
wrote in <4576ed9a$0$82543$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>:

>Robert Coe wrote:
>> On 5 Dec 2006 17:46:17 -0800, "Andrew267@gmail.com" <Andrew267@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> : Sprint dedicated $7 billion to network enhancements in 2006.
>> : Sprint is investing more than $2 billion into the Nextel National
>> : Network and adding more than 1,600 new cell sites to expand
>> : coverage and increase capacity across the country.
>> : Sprint leads the industry in mobile broadband coverage ...
>> :
>> : [remainder of fawning paean omitted]
>>
>> Yeah, you said all that in another thread not more than 15 minutes earlier. I
>> hope you're one of Sprint's paid PR flacks; it would be silly to go to the
>> effort of kissing their ass for free.
>
>It's rather amusing to see the yearly scrambling of PR people, paid and
>unpaid, for the carriers that do poorly. Last year Cingular was claiming
>that the reason that they did so poorly was the conversion from
>TDMA/AMPS to GSM, and the AT&T acquisition. ...

In fact that's still an issue -- lumping together different populations
(ENS GSM, non-ENS GSM, single-band GSM, and D-AMPS ["TDMA"]) makes the
overall results no more meaningful than the average of one breast per
person. Likewise with Sprint Nextel -- lumping iDEN and CDMA together
is just as invalid.

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Best regards, FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS:
John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>