Sprint, Nextel agree to merge

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larryt510@hotmail.com wrote:

> Steve,
>
> The best thing to come out of this deal for us might be the new
> coverage on Hwy 58 and Hwy 395 that Sprint will be getting as a result
> of this deal. Bishop, Mammoth, Mojave, Tehacapi, and Ridgecrest are
> included. The Nextel cell sites in that area will be converted to
> Sprint possibily in 12-18 months.

Y'all know where my issues are with Sprint: by the cement plants, on National
Trails Highway (old US 66/US 91) at Air Expressway in Victorville. That's the
only big hole Sprint has around here - I'd like to see it fixed. Improving
coverage on 395 in or around Adelanto may fix a couple minor problems I have
out there too.

*crossing fingers!*


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On 15 Dec 2004 16:00:30 -0800, larryt510@hotmail.com wrote:

>Steve,
>
>The best thing to come out of this deal for us might be the new
>coverage on Hwy 58 and Hwy 395 that Sprint will be getting as a result
>of this deal. Bishop, Mammoth, Mojave, Tehacapi, and Ridgecrest are
>included. The Nextel cell sites in that area will be converted to
>Sprint possibily in 12-18 months.

Decidedly you're an optimist.

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I can not believe my eyes. You people are talking about a couple of cell
towers and how it will "improve your coverage in your small little corner of
your world". What about the thousands of people that are going to lose there
jobs on both the Sprint and Nextel side. And on top of it Sprint will be
able to completely screw up Nextel as they have their own company and look
what they have to do, buy a profitable company in order to make their
company look good. It is indeed a sad day in the world of cellular and once
again corporate greed prevails.



<larryt510@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Steve,
>
> The best thing to come out of this deal for us might be the new
> coverage on Hwy 58 and Hwy 395 that Sprint will be getting as a result
> of this deal. Bishop, Mammoth, Mojave, Tehacapi, and Ridgecrest are
> included. The Nextel cell sites in that area will be converted to
> Sprint possibily in 12-18 months.
>

"Rod Golding" <rodgolding@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:sw7wd.778$9j5.103@newsread3.news.pas.earthlin k.net...
> I can not believe my eyes. You people are talking about a couple of cell
> towers and how it will "improve your coverage in your small little corner
of
> your world". What about the thousands of people that are going to lose
there
> jobs on both the Sprint and Nextel side. And on top of it Sprint will be
> able to completely screw up Nextel as they have their own company and look
> what they have to do, buy a profitable company in order to make their
> company look good. It is indeed a sad day in the world of cellular and
once
> again corporate greed prevails.


You are such a twit! "Corporate greed"? The ENTIRE purpose of a
corporation is to return a profit for the shareholders! That's the way it
is meant to be!

And also supply jobs to the community which in turn spends money on cell
plans, all a big circle.

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"Mike" <no-spam@no-way.net> wrote in message
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> "Rod Golding" <rodgolding@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:sw7wd.778$9j5.103@newsread3.news.pas.earthlin k.net...
>> I can not believe my eyes. You people are talking about a couple of cell
>> towers and how it will "improve your coverage in your small little corner
> of
>> your world". What about the thousands of people that are going to lose
> there
>> jobs on both the Sprint and Nextel side. And on top of it Sprint will be
>> able to completely screw up Nextel as they have their own company and
>> look
>> what they have to do, buy a profitable company in order to make their
>> company look good. It is indeed a sad day in the world of cellular and
> once
>> again corporate greed prevails.
>
>
> You are such a twit! "Corporate greed"? The ENTIRE purpose of a
> corporation is to return a profit for the shareholders! That's the way it
> is meant to be!
>
>
>
>

And how much is enough? 20%, 30%, 40%? More?


"Mike" <no-spam@no-way.net> wrote in message
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> "Rod Golding" <rodgolding@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:sw7wd.778$9j5.103@newsread3.news.pas.earthlin k.net...
>> I can not believe my eyes. You people are talking about a couple of cell
>> towers and how it will "improve your coverage in your small little corner
> of
>> your world". What about the thousands of people that are going to lose
> there
>> jobs on both the Sprint and Nextel side. And on top of it Sprint will be
>> able to completely screw up Nextel as they have their own company and
>> look
>> what they have to do, buy a profitable company in order to make their
>> company look good. It is indeed a sad day in the world of cellular and
> once
>> again corporate greed prevails.
>
>
> You are such a twit! "Corporate greed"? The ENTIRE purpose of a
> corporation is to return a profit for the shareholders! That's the way it
> is meant to be!
>
>
>
>

I was all excited about the arrangement until I found out that Sprint bought
Nextel and not the other way around. I hear terrible things about Sprint,
especially in the arena of billing and customer service. So, now I'm really
worried.

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"Mike" <no-spam@no-way.net> wrote:

>"Rod Golding" <rodgolding@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>news:sw7wd.778$9j5.103@newsread3.news.pas.earthli nk.net...
>> I can not believe my eyes. You people are talking about a couple of cell
>> towers and how it will "improve your coverage in your small little corner
>of
>> your world". What about the thousands of people that are going to lose
>there
>> jobs on both the Sprint and Nextel side. And on top of it Sprint will be
>> able to completely screw up Nextel as they have their own company and look
>> what they have to do, buy a profitable company in order to make their
>> company look good. It is indeed a sad day in the world of cellular and
>once
>> again corporate greed prevails.
>
>
>You are such a twit! "Corporate greed"? The ENTIRE purpose of a
>corporation is to return a profit for the shareholders! That's the way it
>is meant to be!

Well, no. Corporations are not natural entities. They are created by
human laws, and their purpose is whatever those laws declare it to be.



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And in the end, they lost it all - freedom, comfort and security.
Edward Gibbon

Rod Golding wrote:
> I can not believe my eyes. You people are talking about a couple of cell
> towers and how it will "improve your coverage in your small little corner of
> your world". What about the thousands of people that are going to lose there
> jobs on both the Sprint and Nextel side.

Having lost jobs before due to companies being bought, I certainly don't wish
to minimize the impact of the layoffs.

Just because I haven't said anything about them -- and we don't know what
exactly is going to happen yet, so any talk about layoffs is premature anyhow
-- just because I haven't said anything about layoffs doesn't mean I'm cheering
about them.

> And on top of it Sprint will be
> able to completely screw up Nextel as they have their own company and look
> what they have to do, buy a profitable company in order to make their
> company look good. It is indeed a sad day in the world of cellular and once
> again corporate greed prevails.

I'm sick and tired of hearing "X sucks." All cellular carriers suck. Nextel has
pissed-off former customers too.

Don't like Sprint? That's your choice and you have a right to your opinion.
Sprint has worked well for me and has done better than another carrier that is
supposed to have a far better network and far better customer service. YMMV.

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J A Haynes wrote:
> I was all excited about the arrangement until I found out that Sprint bought
> Nextel and not the other way around. I hear terrible things about Sprint,
> especially in the arena of billing and customer service. So, now I'm really
> worried.

They used to be horrible. I've been with them since 12/2000 and they have made
a bunch of huge improvements since then. They absolutely still have their
issues and there is still work to do, and they have a crappy reputation to
overcome because they lost a lot of customers back a couple years ago. But
they've made huge improvements in many areas.

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Sprint still has the highest rate of customers who leave and Nextel still has the lowest rate. This is why they are merging. Hopefully they take the good from both. I has sprint before i switched to Nextel and I though the service was good and they has a good choice of phones but the customer service is what drove me away. I have had dealings with just about every carrier out there and Nextel has by far the best customer service of all of them.

The way capitalism is supposed to work, if one company was making
that much profit, you'd see all sorts of new competition getting into
the field, with the end result being a lowering of prices.

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"Rod Golding" <rodgolding@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:jx8wd.823$9j5.685@newsread3.news.pas.earthlin k.net...
> And how much is enough? 20%, 30%, 40%? More?
>
>
> "Mike" <no-spam@no-way.net> wrote in message
> newsLednVPiLtAhjVzcRVn-jg@qx.net...
>>
>> You are such a twit! "Corporate greed"? The ENTIRE purpose of a
>> corporation is to return a profit for the shareholders! That's the way it
>> is meant to be!

"Steve Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote in message =
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>=20
> .... and they have a crappy reputation to=20
> overcome because they lost a lot of customers back a couple years ago. =
But=20
> they've made huge improvements in many areas.
>=20
> --=20
> Steven J. Sobol

You may recall that many of those lost customers were terminated by =
Sprint.
They were deadbeats signed on by the failed policies of the previous
administration, policies of marketing to people with poor credit =
histories.
Gary Forsee came on board in late 2002, and has improved Sprint greatly.

> "Corporate greed"? The ENTIRE purpose of a
> corporation is to return a profit for the shareholders! That's the way it
> is meant to be!

But in fact what we're seeing is that the compensation paid to CEOs
is growing by leaps and bounds, while stockholder returns and
employee salaries have remained stagnant in terms of real dollars.

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