What's going on with Sprint?

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Vic @ Dec 9th 2008 10:56PM

I agree with somewhat with your first paragraph, but not with the rest. First, WiMAX is NOT a last-ditch effort. As part of the Nextel acquisition, Sprint was required to have a 4G Broadband solution in the 2.5GHz spectrum (that came with the merger) serving at least 30 million people by Summer 2009. Sprint had no choice but to go WiMAX since it was the only 4G technology ready at the time. LTE was, and still is, in testing and UMB was pretty much abandoned by everyone.

Also, what are you talking about Sprint should sell iDEN and their CDMA network? What the hell are they going to have their subscribers running off of..a couple of cans and some really, really long string? Or are they support to hand all 50 million of their subscribers to Verizon, putting them at over 140 million subscribers and them along holding over 50% of the US's cellular population...

Sprint isn't have problems in their CDMA sector, mainly in their iDEN. Out of the 1.2 million subscribers they lost last quarter, 1.1 million were iDEN. Also, GSM and iDEN are NOT compatible. Just because they both are based off TDMA does not mean they can be easily interchanged; hell, Nextel, before the merger, was going to go with CDMA as their upgrade path for iDEN.

Sprint did a lot of things wrong with the merger, mainly with their whole attitude about how to treat Nextel which lead to an entire cluster**** of CS issues, network reliability (primarily on iDEN, especially with Boost killing capacity just before the merger), management/cultures (Sprint forcing their methods/ways, completely abandoning Nextel's), etc. which lead to their current shotty reputation. Heck, people even associate horrible coverage/quality with Sprint now due to Nextel's issues even though their CDMA network quality/coverage easily rivals Verizon's.

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