Sprint Adds 1.1 Million Subscribers in Q4
Since everyone always likes to pick on Sprint (myself included), I figured I'd point out a positive, that Sprint added 1.1 million subscribers in the fourth quarter. Let's hope they don't blow the momentum with stupidity like $10 data up-charges.
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As someone pointed out earlier, Sprint can't win. If they boast how much less expensive they are, its greeted with "Sprint's so stupid they creating the image that their service is so cheap and terrible"
Now that they increase prices, its greeted as some stupid move again. Not going to please everyone, so they should try to please the stockholders, which the announcement of the increase did not hurt stock prices, and there is no current proof of mass exodus.
Now that they increase prices, its greeted as some stupid move again. Not going to please everyone, so they should try to please the stockholders, which the announcement of the increase did not hurt stock prices, and there is no current proof of mass exodus.
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I was never in the "they're giving their service away" camp. I use Metro and pay A LOT less.
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While I'm glad they had a positive quarter, only 58k of those ads were post pay subscribers (meaning most were Boost and VirginMobile) This is (most likely) why they are still losing money.
I hope that this year they finally turn profitibility.
I hope that this year they finally turn profitibility.
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The problem on net postpaid is that they still count Nextel subscribers' churn in that number. Until that portion of the business is either integrated into CDMA or churns off completely the number will be artificially low.
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Yeah. I still think it was a bad move. They should have acquired Alltel. I wonder if they would still do it had they known how this would all work out?
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Sometimes sprint zigs when everyone else zags. It's one thing I really like about the company. Nextel was going to be purchased by someone and it was going to be messy, but it has also done them a lot of good. Just hard to see it all the time, to put it mildly. Even tho 58K isn't the biggest number out there, it is a huge thing to stop the losses and have a gain.
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Hitur, every time Sprint zigs, they stumble. Show me where a decision by AT&T or VZW or even T-Mobile has effectively brought the company to it's knees. The choices that Sprint has made has resulted in some pretty dire situations. It's fine to admire their wins, but to say their track record is something you like about the company? Yikes.
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...because Verizon is having a hard time maintaining their now giant network. In the past, wireless companies either chose to be regional or national. Regional meant that you generally had great coverage (particularly rural) in a few states and roamed elsewhere. National meant that you covered the cities in and around the interstate highway system.
With the Verizon/Alltel merger, Verizon is now saddled with maintaining two big networks. The problem with this is that doing so requires a tightly integrated infrastructure. In other words, the more that you have to maintain, the greater the likelihood for misses.
As someone who works for a giant mega-corporation, I know how easy it is for core principles to be ignored in favor of streamli...
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With the Verizon/Alltel merger, Verizon is now saddled with maintaining two big networks. The problem with this is that doing so requires a tightly integrated infrastructure. In other words, the more that you have to maintain, the greater the likelihood for misses.
As someone who works for a giant mega-corporation, I know how easy it is for core principles to be ignored in favor of streamli...
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