News: Rumor Sprint to respond to ATT and Verizon unlimted call plans with $60/month plan.

http://www.news.com/Sprint-expected-...html?tag=st_lh

Love it!!!

Hope it stops them from bleeding customers.

I'd hate to see them go under. We need the competition to keep the business
healthy.

Dean


"Ron" <ron.clifford@peoplepc.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.news.com/Sprint-expected-...html?tag=st_lh

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:07:23 -0500, "Dean" <dean173@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Love it!!!
>
>Hope it stops them from bleeding customers.
>
>I'd hate to see them go under. We need the competition to keep the business
>healthy.
>

Sprint is a dead network. With Verizon moving away from CDMA, Sprint
will be the biggest CDMA player in a small field.

Alltel will probably follow Verizon's lead since they roam on each
other's network. US Cellular will probably go that way too.

That will leave Sprint by themselves.

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:27:50 GMT, Ron <ron.clifford@peoplepc.com> wrote
in <183pr3tc1rot111prreobppm1hpk47pl0n@4ax.com>:

>http://www.news.com/Sprint-expected-...html?tag=st_lh

The key word there is "rumor"; i.e., not a real news story.
The Internet press sinks to new lows.

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Bleeding money instead of customers won't solve the problem.
Sprint is caught is a deadly trap that will be hard for it to escape.


On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:07:23 -0500, "Dean" <dean173@yahoo.com> wrote in
<47bc9696$2$15168$607ed4bc@cv.net>:

>Love it!!!
>
>Hope it stops them from bleeding customers.
>
>I'd hate to see them go under. We need the competition to keep the business
>healthy.
>
>Dean
>
>
>"Ron" <ron.clifford@peoplepc.com> wrote in message
>news:183pr3tc1rot111prreobppm1hpk47pl0n@4ax.com.. .
>> http://www.news.com/Sprint-expected-...html?tag=st_lh
>

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"Diamond Dave" <dmine45.NOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Sprint is a dead network. With Verizon moving away from CDMA, Sprint
> will be the biggest CDMA player in a small field.

How is Verizon's upcoming LTE overlay "moving away from CDMA?"

Apes will rise up and rule the Earth before Verizon shuts down the CDMA
network! (And the Apes will likely continue to use CDMA) ;-)

> Alltel will probably follow Verizon's lead since they roam on each
> other's network. US Cellular will probably go that way too.

Seriously, CDMA will hang around post-LTE for a good number of years. Like
GSM, it just plain works, it's already deployed, and little is to be gained
by replacing it anytime soon. Don't read too much into the LTE thing. A
transition to some form of "4G" is inevitable, so why not to one that
interoperates with Verizon's European co-owners? Why intentionally choose
an oddball scheme that locks you out of international roaming revenue?

As an analogy, note that European GSM 3G phones will roam on some decidedly
non-GSM Japanese systems, because they chose the same 3G standard and
frequencies as Europe. This is no different- Verizon had to overlay SOME
sort of 4G data on their network- why not a Euro-compatible one?

> That will leave Sprint by themselves.

That, of course, is if Sprint doesn't wake up, deploy WiMax and "own" mobile
data before Verizon gets LTE deployed in the next couple of years.








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