I'll tell you how they screwed it up. By telling everyone IDEN was on the way out and everyone will be using CDMA. Nobody who has Nextel wants Sprint PCS. People who had bought Nextel wanted NEXTEL. Very simple. Sprint told everyone they were shutting off IDEN so their business customers have said, "in that case, we'll just move to Verizon or Cingular since they have free M2M if we're losing Nextel DC anyway". Nextel had the lowest turnover rate and most profitability, not to mention the second fewest complaints to the FCC. Sprint PCS can't say that. Sprint had created a phony crisis with the IDEN network in order to justify shutting it off. This strategy has backfired miserably and now they're working doubletime to reassure their customer b...
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...and then the selling the iDEN to Uncle Sam stories... Thank God I don't have stock in SPCS, ahh, Embarq stock is worth twice as much...

Yeah, I'm afraid the big winner in all of this will be SouthernLinc. SL has no plans whatsoever to shut down their IDEN network and I'm betting all those former Nextel PTT customers will move that direction if and when Sprint shuts down IDEN. I believe what I would done had I been Nextel would be offer existing customers better plans as well as analog roaming capable phones to their lineup. If Nextel had had the plans then that they have now, plus better coverage, no one would be talking about shutting their network down in favor of Sprint PCS. But, alas at the end of the day, it's all about the ones at the top pocketing enough money in a merger/sellout to permanently retire and not about offering the customer the best possible experience. Q...
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SouthernLinc only operates in Georgia,Alabama and another state, i dunno, i dont see how they would win out, only if they bought nextel's IDEN towers, i think sprint would welcome that because thats a network they dont have to manage. but i dunno if thats possible or legal

I think they operate in about 4 states, and that's where SprintNextel would be losing business. I hadn't really thought about them buying SN IDEN towers. If they do that, and went nationwide, they definitely would put the hurt to them. I agree that the bottom line is for Sprint is to run only one network. If QChat did work as well as DC, I wouldn't care, but even the best latency time is 1.5 seconds for initial connection, compared to under a second for DC. While that may seem insignificant, remember that connections times vary, and 1.5 seconds could easily be 3-5 seconds sometimes. I know with DC, I occasionally get a slower connection (2-3 seconds), and that small difference is frustrating enough, imagine what it's going to be like when th...
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