Sprint-Nextel merger?

It will never work as the two companies have two different priorities.
Sprint goes after the very young adult that pays next to nothing per month
and is looking for free, free, free and uses a phone more as a toy. NexTel
goes after the business market where people expect to pay a little more and
usually receive it. Just look at their advertising and its all there. It is
also why Sprint consistently loses money and Nextel consistently makes
money. If you ask me it should Nextel buying Sprint and doing away with that
system all together. Just my opinion.

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Pick either iden or CDMA? nextel has long known that iden is a dead
end. Whether Sprint PCS' current and future push to talk services will
meet the needs of those business customers that like it, is a good
question. nextel was facing a big transition phase already, and might
have gone under if facing it alone. Will Sprint PCS shift some
resources to cover nextel's transition? Definitely. Will that
seriously weaken Sprint PCS? I doubt it. Acquiring and developing
services that attract more (business) customers is a good move. PCS
frequencys and the new nextel frequencys are not as far apart/different
as cingular's PCS and cellular frequencys. Who knows? We may even see
Sprint PCS as the number 2 carrier in a few years. I am not sure who
would be number 1 at that time. hihi

A Sprint PCS/verizon merger is very unlikely, both from a FCC stand
point and a monopoly stand point.

Jerome Zelinske burbled to the world:

> A Sprint PCS/verizon merger is very unlikely, both from a FCC stand
> point and a monopoly stand point.

Since the new company would still be considerably stronger than
Cingular/ATT, I doubt that there are any regulatory or monopoly issues
at all.

Chris

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Rod Golding wrote:
> It will never work as the two companies have two different priorities.
> Sprint goes after the very young adult that pays next to nothing per month

According to the WSJ, they do a lot of business with large corporations too.

> and is looking for free, free, free and uses a phone more as a toy. NexTel
> goes after the business market where people expect to pay a little more and
> usually receive it. Just look at their advertising and its all there. It is
> also why Sprint consistently loses money and Nextel consistently makes
> money. If you ask me it should Nextel buying Sprint and doing away with that
> system all together. Just my opinion.

Sprint lost money in the past because of a crappy network and crappy customer
service. They've made huge improvements in both areas within the past couple
years and have actually turned a profit over the last year. They're not all the
way there, but I use Sprint and generally have no problem with CS (yes, they
have their moments, but usually they're OK), and have very good coverage where
I need it.


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> > It will never work as the two companies have two different priorities.
> > Sprint goes after the very young adult that pays next to nothing per
month
>
> According to the WSJ, they do a lot of business with large corporations
too.
>
> > and is looking for free, free, free and uses a phone more as a toy.
NexTel
> > goes after the business market where people expect to pay a little more
and
> > usually receive it. Just look at their advertising and its all there. It
is
> > also why Sprint consistently loses money and Nextel consistently makes
> > money. If you ask me it should Nextel buying Sprint and doing away with
that
> > system all together. Just my opinion.

Nextel is going after young adult as well just look at www.boostmobile.com
turn speakers up and use broadband for best effect. If you are less than 30
enjoy. By the way young adults will pay any price to get the right thing.
What did you pay for your last pair of sports shoes? Boost rates at .25 peak
..15 N/W are not that cheap. The Walkie-Talkie at 1.50 per day is not bad but
you could do better with a family plan and unlimited mobile to mobile. The
key is what you friends have if Nextel and Sprint can reach critical mass
then they can charge what they want. I don't think the best product or the
cheapest will win. The Sprint/Nextel and Cingular/AT&TW is all about market
share.

"Pete Stephenson" <[email protected]> wrote in message news[email protected]...
> If Sprint and Verizon merge, then it would appear that I would be
> without a cellphone. Not Fun(tm).

Federal regulators would not allow that to happen, since it would
greatly diminish competition in the industry.

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John Richards

"Pete Stephenson" <[email protected]> wrote in message news[email protected]...
> If Sprint and Verizon merge, then it would appear that I would be
> without a cellphone. Not Fun(tm).

Federal regulators would not allow that to happen, since it would
greatly diminish competition in the industry.

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John Richards

Taken from www.internetnews.com

"There are some similar advantages in that Sprint PCS has tended to be more
of a consumer offer, whereas Nextel has been a very powerful business offer
because of the push-to-talk capabilities and a very extensive suite of
software applications and services," Rehbehn said.


"Steve Sobol" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Rod Golding wrote:
>> It will never work as the two companies have two different priorities.
>> Sprint goes after the very young adult that pays next to nothing per
>> month
>
> According to the WSJ, they do a lot of business with large corporations
> too.
>
>> and is looking for free, free, free and uses a phone more as a toy.
>> NexTel goes after the business market where people expect to pay a little
>> more and usually receive it. Just look at their advertising and its all
>> there. It is also why Sprint consistently loses money and Nextel
>> consistently makes money. If you ask me it should Nextel buying Sprint
>> and doing away with that system all together. Just my opinion.
>
> Sprint lost money in the past because of a crappy network and crappy
> customer service. They've made huge improvements in both areas within the
> past couple years and have actually turned a profit over the last year.
> They're not all the way there, but I use Sprint and generally have no
> problem with CS (yes, they have their moments, but usually they're OK),
> and have very good coverage where I need it.
>
>
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Taken from www.internetnews.com

"There are some similar advantages in that Sprint PCS has tended to be more
of a consumer offer, whereas Nextel has been a very powerful business offer
because of the push-to-talk capabilities and a very extensive suite of
software applications and services," Rehbehn said.


"Steve Sobol" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Rod Golding wrote:
>> It will never work as the two companies have two different priorities.
>> Sprint goes after the very young adult that pays next to nothing per
>> month
>
> According to the WSJ, they do a lot of business with large corporations
> too.
>
>> and is looking for free, free, free and uses a phone more as a toy.
>> NexTel goes after the business market where people expect to pay a little
>> more and usually receive it. Just look at their advertising and its all
>> there. It is also why Sprint consistently loses money and Nextel
>> consistently makes money. If you ask me it should Nextel buying Sprint
>> and doing away with that system all together. Just my opinion.
>
> Sprint lost money in the past because of a crappy network and crappy
> customer service. They've made huge improvements in both areas within the
> past couple years and have actually turned a profit over the last year.
> They're not all the way there, but I use Sprint and generally have no
> problem with CS (yes, they have their moments, but usually they're OK),
> and have very good coverage where I need it.
>
>
> --
> JustThe.net Internet & New Media Services, http://JustThe.net/
> Steven J. Sobol, Geek In Charge / 888.480.4NET (4638) /
> [email protected]
> PGP Key available from your friendly local key server (0xE3AE35ED)
> Apple Valley, California Nothing scares me anymore. I have three kids.

Rod Golding wrote:
> Taken from www.internetnews.com
>
> "There are some similar advantages in that Sprint PCS has tended to be more
> of a consumer offer, whereas Nextel has been a very powerful business offer
> because of the push-to-talk capabilities and a very extensive suite of
> software applications and services," Rehbehn said.
>

Right. The two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.

You must be a Wall Street Journal subscriber to view their content online, so
you'd have to check Google Groups - the full text of the article was posted
here in the last 24-36 hours.

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Steve, I am not saying that neither one doesn't go after one thing or the
other. I am just saying that TYPICALLY that is the way they go to market or
should I say in the WI market. I had Sprint at one time and it was when
roaming was very expensive. I understand they have changed that now, however
I have heard that you are not allowed to spend more that 50% of your airtime
on roam and because Sprint's coverage doesn't quite cut it in northern WI
they just are not a factor here. I guess the part I do not like about them
is that rather than having all the phones with all the toys, why don't they
invest in some towers to cover some of the areas they do not. I switch from
Sprint to USCellular and now am going to Verizon for nationwide. US Cellular
is great for coverage but their minute plans are not very competitive vs
Verizon.


"Steve Sobol" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Rod Golding wrote:
>> Taken from www.internetnews.com
>>
>> "There are some similar advantages in that Sprint PCS has tended to be
>> more of a consumer offer, whereas Nextel has been a very powerful
>> business offer because of the push-to-talk capabilities and a very
>> extensive suite of software applications and services," Rehbehn said.
>>
>
> Right. The two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
>
> You must be a Wall Street Journal subscriber to view their content online,
> so you'd have to check Google Groups - the full text of the article was
> posted here in the last 24-36 hours.
>
> --
> JustThe.net Internet & New Media Services, http://JustThe.net/
> Steven J. Sobol, Geek In Charge / 888.480.4NET (4638) /
> [email protected]
> PGP Key available from your friendly local key server (0xE3AE35ED)
> Apple Valley, California Nothing scares me anymore. I have three kids.

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:45:22 -0500, Isaiah Beard
<[email protected]> said in alt.cellular.nextel:

>Sprint has a very important strongpoint going for it: its network is
>fully homogenous and standardized, unlike the patchy kludged networks
>that other carriers operate, through years of cobbling together merged
>companies. Likewise, Nextel's network is equally homogenized. Both
>companies stand to erase that strongpoint to the detriment of all their
>customers.

Only if they try to merge the two networks, which would be a stupid
move.

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:54:58 -0500, Isaiah Beard
<[email protected]> said in alt.cellular.nextel:

>Steve Sobol wrote:

> > Sure, maybe
>> there would be some enhancements like (somehow) getting Sprint's CDMA
>> 1xRTT push-to-talk system to talk to Nextel's SMR system. But why *not*
>> run separate networks and have one big entity marketing the relative
>> strengths of each network to its respective market??

>Because it runs completely counter to the idea behind a merger, in which
>the strengths of two companies are combined to cut costs.... in other
>words, to do more with less.

So if, just as an example, Nabisco buys LifeSavers, they'll change the
product to fig flavored hard candy? The strengths are combined, not
necessarily the products.

Thank you for a voice of sanity. I don't know why people think that Sprint
and Nextel will pickout their own faults then say let's implement this with
this new company


"Al Klein" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:54:58 -0500, Isaiah Beard
> <[email protected]> said in alt.cellular.nextel:
>
>>
> So if, just as an example, Nabisco buys LifeSavers, they'll change the
> product to fig flavored hard candy? The strengths are combined, not
> necessarily the products.