Sprint/Verizon
This is just a question....i HEARD that Sprint/Verizon merger or buyout...is it verizon buying sprint, or sprint buying verizon...or is out the window now ?
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Right now I don't see either carrier trying to buy the other one out as each has their plate full at the moment. Verizon Wireless is trying to get Vodafone(55%) to give up their majority in Verizon Wireless to their other parent company, Verizon Communications(45%), as well as continue to roll out their EVDO network and decide on a 4G technology. Sprint is still in the process of getting everything in the back office operational side of Nextel worked out, assimilating Nextel Partners Inc. into the Sprint fold, getting ready to deploy Rev A across their network and start formulating their game plan for WiMax, the 4G technology they have chosen.
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Getting the operational side, systems as well as marketing in alignment with Sprint's stuff. You have to remember Sprint and Nextel, when they were once independent wireless carriers, had different marketing strategies as well as customer bases. Now that they are one soldified company, they have to make sure they get on the same page so mixed messages aren't given to potential customers as well as their existing ones.
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If Verizon merged with Sprint, they can kiss my business goodbye. I hate Verizon and will never do business with them.
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Argonnj said:
If Verizon merged with Sprint, they can kiss my business goodbye. I hate Verizon and will never do business with them.
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I'm glad you think its funny. We will see how you like it when there are only 1 or 2 carriers to choose from. Verizon will end being as bad as Microsoft and you will have no where else to go.
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verizon and sprint will not merge. They are top competitors. also, can you say monopoly?
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scottmbolt said:
verizon and sprint will not merge. They are top competitors. also, can you say monopoly?
Of course they could merge. Please don’t take any offense to this message Scott. Mergers like that happen all the time if it financially makes sense. Monopoly sminopoly, it is often just a monopoly because the companies don’t have the right politicians in their pockets. I would love to see more competitive prices in a lot of areas but unfortunately I don’t. A monopoly to the consumer it a big pay off for some investors, money for corrupt politicians, as well other lucrative things. This is the first I have heard of this but I have thought of it. I personally hate Verizon from a consumer point of view...
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They could merge, but would they and would they be allowed too? Unfortunately, the answer would be no without major major mutli billion dollars worth of divestitures in every single business they have their hands on. We already know they will have to sell their assets such as towers and their industry leading and market spectrum. They also might have to divest some local businesses and customers. They would also have to divest customers in their wireless business.
This situation, the merger you and everyone is talking about, wont happen because it will hurt the combined company excessively much.
This situation, the merger you and everyone is talking about, wont happen because it will hurt the combined company excessively much.
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Dam I wish Verizon would buy Sprint. So Sprint would start getting some new ****ing phones finally! I can hear Sprints anus ripping all the times as VZW brings another and another ev-do handsets and sprint sits still with its 3 phones from months ago.
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Why would anyone care about the latest handset when the networks that make the handset useful are still not performing well? Great! A shiny new pink plastic handset that plays games and downloads low-resolution videos but can't make or hold a call long enough to complete a conversation. Oh, I get it, the providers just PRETEND to have a wireless network so they can continue to sell PRETTY HANDSETS to fashionistas that just HAVE to have the latest toy to show off to their friends and will buy a new handset every six months.
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ok so i would be so happy if sprint and verizon merged, first of all, where i live in michigan, when i roam up north off alltel's crappy towers i cannot send text or anything at all, jsut call. and most of the time it wont do that. i know that verizon can send text and pix and all that stuff on there extended network. why in the hell didnt they think of merging sprint and verizon before sprint and nextel. at lease verizon and sprint share some of the same technologies!
what dumbasses!
what dumbasses!
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The only wireless technology the two don't share is analog/AMPS which Verizon still has some of those type of customers I believe from the back in the Bell Atlantic Mobile and Airtouch Cellular days. As far as the download platform goes, Sprint uses Java whereas Verizon Wireless went the BREW route. SPrint wanted the business model and customer base of Nextel while Nextel wanted the R&D and data services of Sprint. Plus Nextel was starting to hurt for spectrum because of the FCC ruling from my understanding.
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how funny is this. i work for sprint but have a verizon phone. what does that suggest.
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sprint problem is they got too big too quick. once they get all there ducks inline. they should be a force to reckon with. same thing happened to cingular when they bought at&t
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