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  1. #16
    SMS
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    Re: Verizon adds 1.8 million wireless users, Industry's No. 2 closesgap on market leader Cingular

    Scott wrote:

    > And yet you are still unable to show verification of this personal opinion.
    > Why is that?


    My GSM phone is a quad band Motorola phone. The Cingular coverage in the
    San Francisco Bay Area improved greatly after the merger, because
    Cingular got all that sweet 800 Mhz spectrum and dumped the crappy 1900
    Mhz spectrum. But the Cingular coverage still lags Verizon by a lot, as
    evidenced by the results of all the independent surveys.

    Navas has no verification because there has never been a survey that
    showed Cingular to be nearly as good as Verizon.



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  2. #17
    SMS
    Guest

    Re: Verizon adds 1.8 million wireless users, Industry's No. 2 closesgap on market leader Cingular

    SMS wrote:
    > Scott wrote:
    >
    >> And yet you are still unable to show verification of this personal
    >> opinion. Why is that?

    >
    > My GSM phone is a quad band Motorola phone.


    Oops, actually it's a tri-band (850/900/1900 MHz).



  3. #18
    SMS
    Guest

    Re: Verizon adds 1.8 million wireless users, Industry's No. 2 closesgap on market leader Cingular

    Scott wrote:
    > "John Navas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > news:[email protected]...
    >
    >> Radio Shack actually dumped Verizon due to poor sales performance in
    >> 2005,

    >
    > Incorrect again, Skippy.


    What happened with Radio Shack is that Verizon was unwilling to give
    Radio Shack the spiffs that Radio Shack demanded. Verizon prefers to
    sell as much as possible through their own stores and website, as the
    margins are much higher. Verizon knew that the number of customers that
    choose wireless service based on the retailer is low enough that they
    wouldn't lose all that many new additions if Radio Shack ceased to be a
    reseller. Who dumped who? You can say that Radio Shack got a better deal
    from Cingular so they kicked Verizon out, or you can say that Verizon
    wasn't interested in the Radio Shack business at the terms that Radio
    Shack demanded. It's all moot now, but Radio Shack is suffering mightily
    from their actions, while Verizon continues to gain market share and
    enjoy large margins, while Cingular continues to lose market share and
    has much lower margins.

    Radio Shack was doing very well with Verizon and apparently believed
    that they could continue at the same sales level with Cingular, but make
    more money due to the higher spiffs. They were very, very wrong. There
    are performance criteria that if not met would allow either party to
    terminate the relationship, but Radio Shack is caught between a rock and
    a hard place, as Verizon is not going to be interested in going back
    into Radio Shack unless Radio Shack settles for much lower spiffs.
    Verizon has the upper hand in the negotiations.

    Radio Shack managers were complaining about Cingular even back in
    January, because sales were so low compared with Verizon. The last two
    quarterly reports for Radio Shack show just how correct the managers were.



  4. #19

    Re: Verizon adds 1.8 million wireless users, Industry's No. 2 closesgapon market leader Cingular

    SMS wrote:

    > Scott wrote:
    > > "John Navas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > > news:[email protected]...
    > >
    > >> Radio Shack actually dumped Verizon due to poor sales performance in
    > >> 2005,

    > >
    > > Incorrect again, Skippy.

    >
    > What happened with Radio Shack is that Verizon was unwilling to give
    > Radio Shack the spiffs that Radio Shack demanded. Verizon prefers to
    > sell as much as possible through their own stores and website, as the
    > margins are much higher. Verizon knew that the number of customers that
    > choose wireless service based on the retailer is low enough that they
    > wouldn't lose all that many new additions if Radio Shack ceased to be a
    > reseller. Who dumped who? You can say that Radio Shack got a better deal
    > from Cingular so they kicked Verizon out, or you can say that Verizon
    > wasn't interested in the Radio Shack business at the terms that Radio
    > Shack demanded. It's all moot now, but Radio Shack is suffering mightily
    > from their actions, while Verizon continues to gain market share and
    > enjoy large margins, while Cingular continues to lose market share and
    > has much lower margins.
    >
    > Radio Shack was doing very well with Verizon and apparently believed
    > that they could continue at the same sales level with Cingular, but make
    > more money due to the higher spiffs. They were very, very wrong. There
    > are performance criteria that if not met would allow either party to
    > terminate the relationship, but Radio Shack is caught between a rock and
    > a hard place, as Verizon is not going to be interested in going back
    > into Radio Shack unless Radio Shack settles for much lower spiffs.
    > Verizon has the upper hand in the negotiations.
    >
    > Radio Shack managers were complaining about Cingular even back in
    > January, because sales were so low compared with Verizon. The last two
    > quarterly reports for Radio Shack show just how correct the managers were.


    Radio Shack is closing something like 471 stores nationwide so are now in even
    worse shape.





  5. #20
    Thomas T. Veldhouse
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    Re: Verizon adds 1.8 million wireless users, Industry's No. 2 closes gap on market leader Cingular

    In alt.cellular.cingular SMS <[email protected]> wrote:
    > Scott wrote:
    >
    >> And yet you are still unable to show verification of this personal opinion.
    >> Why is that?

    >
    > My GSM phone is a quad band Motorola phone. The Cingular coverage in the
    > San Francisco Bay Area improved greatly after the merger, because
    > Cingular got all that sweet 800 Mhz spectrum and dumped the crappy 1900
    > Mhz spectrum. But the Cingular coverage still lags Verizon by a lot, as
    > evidenced by the results of all the independent surveys.
    >
    > Navas has no verification because there has never been a survey that
    > showed Cingular to be nearly as good as Verizon.


    I don't think there is anything crappy about the PCS band, as you indicate
    above. It has benefits and detractors. Higher potential bandwidth, smaller
    cells [a detractor in the country but a potentially postive thing in densely
    populated areas], reflects differently, etc. It certainly can be more
    expensive to deploy a PCS network when less populated areas are to be covered,
    because tower distances must be closer together.

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  6. #21
    John Navas
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    Re: Verizon adds 1.8 million wireless users, Industry's No. 2 closes gap on market leader Cingular

    On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:47:23 GMT, "Thomas T. Veldhouse"
    <[email protected]> wrote in
    <[email protected]>:

    >I don't think there is anything crappy about the PCS band, as you indicate
    >above. It has benefits and detractors. Higher potential bandwidth, smaller
    >cells [a detractor in the country but a potentially postive thing in densely
    >populated areas], reflects differently, etc. It certainly can be more
    >expensive to deploy a PCS network when less populated areas are to be covered,
    >because tower distances must be closer together.


    In metro areas there is no significant technology difference between 850
    and 1900 bands (due to less than maximum range spacing), and even in
    non-metro areas the difference, due to shorter range from lower
    permitted maximum power for 1900 MHz, tends to be relatively small:

    * Maximum power in the 800 band is 3 watts.
    * Maximum power in the 1900 band is 2 watts.

    It's not intuitively obvious, but that's only about 18% less range for
    1900, and then only when range is limited only by power (not by
    terrain).

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  7. #22
    SMS
    Guest

    Re: Verizon adds 1.8 million wireless users, Industry's No. 2 closesgap on market leader Cingular

    Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
    > In alt.cellular.cingular SMS <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> Scott wrote:
    >>
    >>> And yet you are still unable to show verification of this personal opinion.
    >>> Why is that?

    >> My GSM phone is a quad band Motorola phone. The Cingular coverage in the
    >> San Francisco Bay Area improved greatly after the merger, because
    >> Cingular got all that sweet 800 Mhz spectrum and dumped the crappy 1900
    >> Mhz spectrum. But the Cingular coverage still lags Verizon by a lot, as
    >> evidenced by the results of all the independent surveys.
    >>
    >> Navas has no verification because there has never been a survey that
    >> showed Cingular to be nearly as good as Verizon.

    >
    > I don't think there is anything crappy about the PCS band, as you indicate
    > above. It has benefits and detractors. Higher potential bandwidth, smaller
    > cells [a detractor in the country but a potentially postive thing in densely
    > populated areas],


    You can put in more, smaller cells with 800/900 if you want to. The
    problem with 1900 in the U.S. is that we have a lot of sparsely
    populated areas. 1800 works well in Asia, but 1900 doesn't work well
    here, except in densely populated urban areas. This is why Sprint
    doesn't even try to expand into less populated areas, it's much cheaper
    to pay for roaming.



  8. #23
    John Navas
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    Re: Verizon adds 1.8 million wireless users, Industry's No. 2 closesgap on market leader Cingular

    On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:31:53 GMT, [email protected]lid wrote in
    <[email protected]>:

    >Radio Shack is closing something like 471 stores nationwide so are now in even
    >worse shape.


    Like the switch from Verizon to Cingular, store closings are actually
    part of the Radio Shack recovery plan started back in 2005.

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  9. #24
    John Navas
    Guest

    Re: Verizon adds 1.8 million wireless users, Industry's No. 2 closes gap on market leader Cingular

    On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:58:10 -0700, SMS <[email protected]>
    wrote in <[email protected]>:

    >Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
    >> In alt.cellular.cingular SMS <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>> Scott wrote:
    >>>
    >>>> And yet you are still unable to show verification of this personal opinion.
    >>>> Why is that?
    >>> My GSM phone is a quad band Motorola phone. The Cingular coverage in the
    >>> San Francisco Bay Area improved greatly after the merger, because
    >>> Cingular got all that sweet 800 Mhz spectrum and dumped the crappy 1900
    >>> Mhz spectrum. But the Cingular coverage still lags Verizon by a lot, as
    >>> evidenced by the results of all the independent surveys.
    >>>
    >>> Navas has no verification because there has never been a survey that
    >>> showed Cingular to be nearly as good as Verizon.

    >>
    >> I don't think there is anything crappy about the PCS band, as you indicate
    >> above. It has benefits and detractors. Higher potential bandwidth, smaller
    >> cells [a detractor in the country but a potentially postive thing in densely
    >> populated areas],

    >
    >You can put in more, smaller cells with 800/900 if you want to. The
    >problem with 1900 in the U.S. is that we have a lot of sparsely
    >populated areas. 1800 works well in Asia, but 1900 doesn't work well
    >here, except in densely populated urban areas. This is why Sprint
    >doesn't even try to expand into less populated areas, it's much cheaper
    >to pay for roaming.


    Again, in metro areas there is no significant technology difference
    between 850 and 1900 bands (due to less than maximum range spacing), and
    even in non-metro areas the difference, due to shorter range from lower
    permitted maximum power for 1900 MHz, tends to be relatively small:

    * Maximum power in the 800 band is 3 watts.
    * Maximum power in the 1900 band is 2 watts.

    It's not intuitively obvious, but that's only about 18% less range for
    1900, and then only when range is limited only by power (not by terrain,
    which is more often the case).

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    John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>



  10. #25
    John Navas
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    Re: Verizon adds 1.8 million wireless users, Industry's No. 2 closes gap on market leader Cingular

    On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:47:56 -0700, SMS <[email protected]>
    wrote in <[email protected]>:

    >What happened with Radio Shack is that Verizon was unwilling to give
    >Radio Shack the spiffs that Radio Shack demanded. Verizon prefers to
    >sell as much as possible through their own stores and website, as the
    >margins are much higher. Verizon knew that the number of customers that
    >choose wireless service based on the retailer is low enough that they
    >wouldn't lose all that many new additions if Radio Shack ceased to be a
    >reseller. Who dumped who? You can say that Radio Shack got a better deal
    >from Cingular so they kicked Verizon out, or you can say that Verizon
    >wasn't interested in the Radio Shack business at the terms that Radio
    >Shack demanded. It's all moot now, but Radio Shack is suffering mightily
    >from their actions, while Verizon continues to gain market share and
    >enjoy large margins, while Cingular continues to lose market share and
    >has much lower margins.
    >
    >Radio Shack was doing very well with Verizon and apparently believed
    >that they could continue at the same sales level with Cingular, but make
    >more money due to the higher spiffs. They were very, very wrong. There
    >are performance criteria that if not met would allow either party to
    >terminate the relationship, but Radio Shack is caught between a rock and
    >a hard place, as Verizon is not going to be interested in going back
    >into Radio Shack unless Radio Shack settles for much lower spiffs.
    >Verizon has the upper hand in the negotiations.
    >
    >Radio Shack managers were complaining about Cingular even back in
    >January, because sales were so low compared with Verizon. The last two
    >quarterly reports for Radio Shack show just how correct the managers were.


    Here are the facts, which make it clear that Radio Shack dumped Verizon
    based on poor performance and financials, not the other way around,
    that Cingular is part of the turnaround plan, and that continued poor
    performance is due to problems at Radio Shack, not anything to do with
    Cingular:

    February 17, 2005

    Radio Shack projects 2005 sales growth of 9% to 11% and earnings per
    share growth from $2.34 to $2.40.

    March 18, 2005

    RadioShack Corporation (NYSE: RSH) today announced that its first
    quarter 2005 earnings per share estimate will not meet its previously
    stated forecast of $0.39 to $0.41. The company believes first quarter
    earnings per share are more likely to be $0.30 to $0.34.

    In addition, the company said it is unlikely to achieve its
    previously stated 2005 full year earnings per share guidance of $2.34
    to $2.40. RadioShack expects to update its full year earnings
    guidance at its regularly scheduled first quarter earnings release
    date, April 19.

    "Business trends have underperformed our expectations," said David
    Edmondson, president and chief executive officer - elect. "This has
    been driven by a recent deceleration in wireless sales in our core
    stores and, to a smaller extent, underperformance in our battery
    business."

    April 19, 2005

    RadioShack Corporation (NYSE: RSH) today announced net income of $55
    million or $0.34 per diluted share for the quarter ended March 31,
    2005 versus net income of $68 million or $0.41 per diluted share for
    the quarter ended March 31, 2004.

    Total sales in the first quarter of 2005 were up 3% to $1,123
    million, compared to total sales of $1,093 million for the previous
    year. First quarter 2005 comparable store sales were down 1% versus
    the prior year.

    "We are disappointed that our business did not perform as we
    originally expected during the first quarter. Our profits were lower
    due primarily to underperformance in the wireless business within our
    core RadioShack stores," said David Edmondson, president and chief
    executive officer-elect. "Our non- wireless businesses improved in
    first quarter 2005, compared with first quarter 2004. RadioShack
    remains a very profitable business overall, but our focus clearly
    must be on turning our wireless business around, while continuing to
    improve our non-wireless businesses."

    RadioShack established fiscal year 2005 diluted earnings per share
    guidance of $1.80 to $1.90.

    July 19, 2005

    RadioShack Corporation (NYSE: RSH) today announced net income of
    $52.3 million or $0.33 per diluted share for the quarter ended June
    30, 2005 versus net income of $68.3 million or $0.42 per diluted
    share for the quarter ended June 30, 2004.

    Total sales in the second quarter of 2005 were up 4% to $1,092.2
    million, compared to total sales of $1,053.8 million for the previous
    year. Second quarter 2005 comparable store sales were down 1% versus
    the prior year.

    "Our profit decline in the second quarter was driven by lower comp
    store sales and more specifically by weakness in our core store
    wireless business," said David Edmondson, president and chief
    executive officer. ...

    Total wireless sales were up 2% due to growth in RadioShack’s kiosk
    channel offset by a decline in sales of wireless in its company
    stores.

    July 31, 2005

    RadioShack Corporation (NYSE: RSH) today announced that it has
    entered into 10-year and 11-year agreements, respectively, with
    Cingular Wireless and Sprint PCS to be the company’s long-term
    wireless providers in RadioShack stores nationwide. Cingular and
    Sprint have also committed to support RadioShack Corporation’s
    strategy of expanding retail distribution outside of the core
    RadioShack stores.

    RadioShack’s new agreement terms with Cingular and Sprint are
    projected to be more financially favorable over the life of the
    agreements relative to the financial model under which RadioShack
    operates today. The new agreements are expected to provide RadioShack
    with more profits in the short- and long-term and significant future
    growth opportunities due to entrance into the GSM market, addition of
    Nextel products and services (pending their merger with Sprint), and
    opportunities for expanded distribution.

    October 21, 2005

    "We made important progress during the third quarter to better
    position ourselves for the holiday selling season and the long term,"
    said David Edmondson, president and chief executive officer. "We made
    aggressive moves on inventory and finished deploying operating
    procedures which will improve the customer experience in our stores.
    We also finalized long-term wireless agreements and returned value to
    shareholders through an overnight share repurchase transaction which
    better positions us as a corporation."

    July 7, 2006

    RadioShack Corp. Friday named Julian Day as its new chief executive,
    hoping his experience with struggling retailers such as Safeway,
    Sears and Kmart would help with RadioShack's own revamp.

    Day, 54, was CEO of Kmart and a director of Sears Holdings Corp., the
    retailer formed when Kmart bought Sears, Roebuck & Co. last year.

    He was elected as RadioShack's chairman and chief executive following
    a four-month search after David Edmondson, who had misstated his
    academic record, resigned on Feb. 20.

    Fort Worth, Texas-based RadioShack (Charts) passed over acting CEO
    Claire Babrowski. A former long-time McDonald's Corp. executive, she
    was president and chief operating officer before taking over as CEO
    in February, and had been viewed as a strong internal candidate for
    the top post.

    "A dramatic change in strategy and culture was needed most at
    RadioShack, and we think Mr. Day's appointment could spur just that,"
    David Schick, an analyst with Stifel Nicolaus, wrote in a note to
    clients. "We expect the shares to react favorably."

    He raised his rating on the stock to "hold" from "sell."

    Day, who was CEO of Kmart when it emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy
    protection in 2003, arrives at RadioShack as the retailer is closing
    hundreds of stores and adding more popular merchandise such as MP3
    digital music players in the hope of reversing steep profit declines.

    First-quarter earnings dropped 85 percent as the company struggled
    with weak sales of mobile phones. Last year, in an effort to revive
    sales, RadioShack cut ties with long-time partner Verizon Wireless
    and signed a deal to start selling Cingular products on Jan. 1.

    But RadioShack had trouble keeping hot Cingular products in stock and
    training its staff to sell the new items.

    In May, the company said it was making progress with its turnaround,
    which includes closing at least 480 stores, but said it would
    experience significant costs related to the plan in its second and
    third quarters.

    ...

    Wall Street still has some doubts that RadioShack can successfully
    turn around its business when it faces intense competition from much
    larger rivals Best Buy Co. Inc. and Circuit City Stores Inc..

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  11. #26
    John Navas
    Guest

    Re: Verizon adds 1.8 million wireless users, Industry's No. 2 closes gap on market leader Cingular

    On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:10:42 -0700, SMS <[email protected]>
    wrote in <[email protected]>:

    >... The Cingular coverage in the
    >San Francisco Bay Area improved greatly after the merger, because
    >Cingular got all that sweet 800 Mhz spectrum and dumped the crappy 1900
    >Mhz spectrum.


    Cingular still actually uses that 1900 spectrum under a roaming buyback
    deal with T-Mobile.

    The 1900 spectrum is actually quite good, as evidenced by T-Mobile
    coverage.

    The combination of 850 and 1900 spectrum gives Cingular the best digital
    network coverage in the San Francisco Bay Area.

    >But the Cingular coverage still lags Verizon by a lot, as
    >evidenced by the results of all the independent surveys.


    Surveys actually show very small differences between carriers, even when
    inappropriately mixing different technologies together (e.g., D-AMPS and
    GSM).

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  12. #27
    John Navas
    Guest

    Re: Verizon adds 1.8 million wireless users, Industry's No. 2 closes gap on market leader Cingular

    On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:38:30 -0700, SMS <[email protected]>
    wrote in <[email protected]>:

    >SMS wrote:
    >> Scott wrote:
    >>
    >>> And yet you are still unable to show verification of this personal
    >>> opinion. Why is that?

    >>
    >> My GSM phone is a quad band Motorola phone.

    >
    >Oops, actually it's a tri-band (850/900/1900 MHz).


    In other words, not one of the better ones. I'd be willing to bet that
    it's not ENS-capable with an ENS (64K SIM). You'd probably get better
    results with a better phone. Assuming you really want to.

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  13. #28
    Scott
    Guest

    Re: Verizon adds 1.8 million wireless users, Industry's No. 2 closes gap on market leader Cingular


    "John Navas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    news:[email protected]...

    >
    > Many analysts were actually quite positive.
    >


    But many more were negative than positive.





  14. #29
    SMS
    Guest

    Re: Verizon adds 1.8 million wireless users, Industry's No. 2 closesgapon market leader Cingular

    [email protected]lid wrote:

    >> Radio Shack managers were complaining about Cingular even back in
    >> January, because sales were so low compared with Verizon. The last two
    >> quarterly reports for Radio Shack show just how correct the managers were.

    >
    > Radio Shack is closing something like 471 stores nationwide so are now in even
    > worse shape.


    Radio Shack became too dependent on wireless sales, and the large
    commission they received from the carriers. This sort of thing has
    happened in the past with Radio Shack, they got dependent on CB radios,
    they got dependent on the Trash-80, etc. You can't build a business
    stumbling from one high margin business to the next, because eventually
    the high margins go away.

    Even so, Radio Shack didn't count on the huge loss in wireless business
    that occurred when they switched from Verizon to Cingular. They are
    still trying to promote the idea that the reseller is the most important
    factor in choosing a wireless carrier, but few people are listening.
    When you lose the top-rated carrier in almost every geographic area, and
    switch to what is often the worst-rated carriers, you are insane to
    believe that you can maintain the same level of sales.

    We'll see what happens with Radio Shack and Cingular. There are escape
    clauses, but what's the point now? Verizon isn't going to go back into
    Radio Shack unless the terms are highly favorable, Radio Shack has no
    bargaining power anymore. I don't even think T-Mobile would be
    interested in Radio Shack, with all the stores that T-Mobile is opening.

    It was a dumb move by Radio Shack, that is putting the future of the
    company at risk.




  15. #30
    John Navas
    Guest

    Re: Verizon adds 1.8 million wireless users, Industry's No. 2 closesgap on market leader Cingular

    On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:00:03 -0700, SMS <[email protected]>
    wrote in <[email protected]>:

    >[email protected] wrote:
    >
    >>> Radio Shack managers were complaining about Cingular even back in
    >>> January, because sales were so low compared with Verizon. The last two
    >>> quarterly reports for Radio Shack show just how correct the managers were.

    >>
    >> Radio Shack is closing something like 471 stores nationwide so are now in even
    >> worse shape.

    >
    >Radio Shack became too dependent on wireless sales, and the large
    >commission they received from the carriers.


    That much is true.

    >This sort of thing has
    >happened in the past with Radio Shack, they got dependent on CB radios,
    >they got dependent on the Trash-80, etc.


    Also batteries.

    >You can't build a business
    >stumbling from one high margin business to the next, because eventually
    >the high margins go away.


    Yep.

    >Even so, Radio Shack didn't count on the huge loss in wireless business
    >that occurred when they switched from Verizon to Cingular.


    What it actually didn't expect was the way it bungled the transition.
    The loss actually started with Verizon.

    >They are
    >still trying to promote the idea that the reseller is the most important
    >factor in choosing a wireless carrier, but few people are listening.


    They are actually promoting their wide distribution, but are having a
    hard time competing with small kiosks.

    >When you lose the top-rated carrier in almost every geographic area, and
    >switch to what is often the worst-rated carriers, you are insane to
    >believe that you can maintain the same level of sales.


    In fact Cingular was part of the turn-around plan after Verizon sales
    dropped in 2005.

    >We'll see what happens with Radio Shack and Cingular. There are escape
    >clauses, but what's the point now? Verizon isn't going to go back into
    >Radio Shack unless the terms are highly favorable, Radio Shack has no
    >bargaining power anymore. I don't even think T-Mobile would be
    >interested in Radio Shack, with all the stores that T-Mobile is opening.
    >
    >It was a dumb move by Radio Shack, that is putting the future of the
    >company at risk.


    Actually its only hope of survival. The Verizon deal wasn't working.

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