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fastcat91

May 28, 2006, 1:36 PM
Did Verizon Buy Sprint/Nextel?? Thanks
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MidnightDT

May 28, 2006, 1:41 PM
no. your welcome
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spum

May 28, 2006, 1:45 PM
That would be a nightmare.
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mstngdtb

May 28, 2006, 2:19 PM
no they did not..that would def. suck as well...but you are also not the first person i have heard ask that...i work at a kiosk in a mall and had a few people ask me that...
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dave73

May 28, 2006, 7:09 PM
mstngdtb said:
no they did not..that would def. suck as well...but you are also not the first person i have heard ask that...i work at a kiosk in a mall and had a few people ask me that...

Such a merger would be a difficult one as there are too many markets where both services operate in, and too many markets would be divested. Also I'm not sure how many markets Sprint & Verizon are in that are PCS only. In most of Indiana, Verizon might have have to divest northern Indiana as Verizon has the B-side cellular licenses for all of Indiana except for about 6-8 counties (I know USCC has the B-side for Benton County in Indiana), plus a lot of overlay in PCS coverage in many of the same areas of Northern Indiana....
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Green Jeep

May 28, 2006, 7:27 PM
dave73 said:Verizon seems more focussed on the consumer user rather than the business user. So don't look for Sprint to be bought out by Verizon anytime soon. I believe a foreign company would most likely buy them out.


http://www.jdpa.com/news/releases/pressrelease.asp?I ... »

"Verizon Wireless ranks highest among the five largest wireless providers that serve business companies, with particularly high ratings from business customers for performance and reliability, call quality, company image and customer service. T-Mobile follows Verizon Wireless in the rankings and performs particularly well in the areas of billing, offerings and promotions and cost of service. Other providers included in the st...
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bkw79

May 29, 2006, 8:53 AM
Yeah, good post. I was wondering about what he said.....Sprint more focused on business than Verizon? lol Sprint has never lead as far as business customers, or regular consumers. And honestly, and this is fact, if sprint was really more geared to business more than consumer......their credit check approval wouldn't be so lenient.
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dave73

May 29, 2006, 6:29 PM
bkw79 said:
Yeah, good post. I was wondering about what he said.....Sprint more focused on business than Verizon? lol Sprint has never lead as far as business customers, or regular consumers. And honestly, and this is fact, if sprint was really more geared to business more than consumer......their credit check approval wouldn't be so lenient.

When you look at Verizon's phone selection & Sprint's selection, Verizon's selection looks much more like it's geared toward the consumer, considering almost all phones have cameras on them, and now V-Cast being put on the phones. Yes they have PDA phones, but for the business user that's looking for a cameraless phone, that's hard to come by. I don't know if the ...
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satch of the moe

May 28, 2006, 2:25 PM
nope no buyout. yep they suck especially those dum commercials. one thing that would be cool would be to get discounts at nascar events oh well. 😛
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