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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Latest financials confirm it: Sprint and Nextel probably shouldn't have merged]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</guid><description><![CDATA[So, how does this new unlimited plan help Sprint financially? Wouldn't many of the likely subscribers to this plan ultimately be unprofitable for them? <br><br>Wouldn't that just keep "digging a hole" so to speak? <br><br>Homer: I know! We'll dig our way out! <br>Chief Wiggum: No, no dig up, stupid. <br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 28th 2008 9:21PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Latest financials confirm it: Sprint and Nextel probably shouldn't have merged]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</guid><description><![CDATA[So, how does this new unlimited plan help Sprint financially?<br>Wouldn't many of the likely subscribers to this plan ultimately be<br>unprofitable for them anyway?<br><br>Wouldn't that just keep "digging a hole" so to speak?<br><br>Homer: I know! We'll dig our way out!<br>Chief Wiggum: No, no dig UP, stupid.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 28th 2008 9:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Latest financials confirm it: Sprint and Nextel probably shouldn't have merged]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</guid><description><![CDATA["With postpaid subscribers continuing to migrate to other carriers, there's no telling how to stop the hemorrhaging -- especially if the fresh $99 unlimited plan doesn't end up doing the trick"<br>There's no telling how to stop the hemorrhaging, but then you tell one method of stopping the hemorrhaging. Hmmm...<br><br>"We're no economists here" Well said! ;-)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[packetsniffer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 28th 2008 9:50PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Latest financials confirm it: Sprint and Nextel probably shouldn't have merged]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Ryan<br>Lower prices means more subscribers which means more profits. It works that way with government and taxes too, if you're a Republican. ;-)<br><br>@Engadget<br>Why'd you remove the reply feature?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[packetsniffer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 28th 2008 9:52PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Latest financials confirm it: Sprint and Nextel probably shouldn't have merged]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</guid><description><![CDATA[id like to see one that says "Employees jumping ship fast as the speeed of light....thats your employees losing faith, at SprintSpeed"]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh RStwnSqMall]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 28th 2008 11:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Latest financials confirm it: Sprint and Nextel probably shouldn't have merged]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Josh RStwnSqMall<br>Since when are the employees jumping ship? If anything, they're being pushed off. The customers are the ones jumping ship.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[packetsniffer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 28th 2008 11:36PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Latest financials confirm it: Sprint and Nextel probably shouldn't have merged]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</guid><description><![CDATA[Dorthy, Sprint's not in Kansas anymore, wait...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 29th 2008 1:11AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Latest financials confirm it: Sprint and Nextel probably shouldn't have merged]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</guid><description><![CDATA[I said it when the Sprint Nextel Merger was announced and I said it when the AMD ATI Merger was announce.  DON'T DO IT!<br><br>But NO! These big companies never listen to some random anonymous person in an internet forum.  Maybe they wouldn't be bleeding money if they did.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deus Invictus]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 29th 2008 9:08AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Latest financials confirm it: Sprint and Nextel probably shouldn't have merged]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</guid><description><![CDATA[I said it when the Sprint Nextel merger was announce, I said it when the AMD ATI merger was announced, DON'T DO IT!<br><br>But these big companies won't listen to a random anonymous person in an internet forum.  Maybe if they did they wouldn't be bleeding money.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deus Invictus]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 29th 2008 9:08AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Latest financials confirm it: Sprint and Nextel probably shouldn't have merged]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</guid><description><![CDATA[Great now I have to vote myself down for double posting!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Deus Invictus]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 29th 2008 9:09AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Latest financials confirm it: Sprint and Nextel probably shouldn't have merged]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</guid><description><![CDATA[Sprint will be gone within 18 months.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[PEZ]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 29th 2008 9:18AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Latest financials confirm it: Sprint and Nextel probably shouldn't have merged]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</guid><description><![CDATA[so are sprint employee's still gonna get paid???<br><br>yea i can see the fcc taking the iden network away from sprint.<br><br>sk telecom might even buy them out like a hostile take over, after that much of a loss.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[sinz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 29th 2008 1:44PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Latest financials confirm it: Sprint and Nextel probably shouldn't have merged]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</guid><description><![CDATA[Sprint won't be "gone", per se.  It'll probably be called something else, though, or at least owned by someone new.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[PhilR8]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 29th 2008 11:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Latest financials confirm it: Sprint and Nextel probably shouldn't have merged]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</guid><description><![CDATA[I have to say that if my company didn't pay my phone bill then I'd be jumping on Sprint's offer. $100 is a pretty good deal considering what they're offering (& service would generally work for me based on their maps, though travel quite a bit).]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Anthony]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 29th 2008 11:29AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Latest financials confirm it: Sprint and Nextel probably shouldn't have merged]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</guid><description><![CDATA[You can see the FCC taking the iDEN network away from Sprint...? If we ignore the fact that that's patently absurd, for what reason would they do that?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[packetsniffer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 29th 2008 5:22PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Latest financials confirm it: Sprint and Nextel probably shouldn't have merged]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</guid><description><![CDATA[10 years after Sprint finally folds its puptent, the Sprint-trolls will *still* be the biggest loudmouth-whiners on the www.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[backbeat]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 1st 2008 11:03AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Latest financials confirm it: Sprint and Nextel probably shouldn't have merged]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</guid><description><![CDATA[Maybe sprint should try improving the customer experience.  i.e. Customer Service, some better devices, etc.  It's no coincidence that Sprint has been ranked in the bottom of the JD Powers Customer Service surveys in the last few quarters and also losing customers.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Workin Man]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 1st 2008 12:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Latest financials confirm it: Sprint and Nextel probably shouldn't have merged]]></title><link>http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/02/28/latest-financials-confirm-it-sprint-and-nextel-probably-shouldn/</guid><description><![CDATA[@ Packetsniffer More subscribers does not equal more profit where gross mismanagement is ever-present, except in theory. Same goes if you're a Republican.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[backbeat]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mar 1st 2008 1:56PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>