Corporate tricks at Sprint

This is not a Troll. This is the truth:

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/stor...%7B30004AF6%2D
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SprintPCS has been losing money, so how is that problem solved?
Improving Customer Service - No

Fold PrintPCS into Sprint and do not report its earnings (or loss)
separately.

And for this slight of hand the Board of Directors voted to Promote its
overpaid President Lauer to CEO.

Amazingly Sprint says:

Under Lauer, Sprint will reorganize its operations to focus on the
consumer market and the business market.



duh - is there any other?

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> Fold SPrintPCS into Sprint and do not report its
> earnings (or loss) separately.

They must have hired some Accountants from Enron and MCI.

"P Reality" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news[email protected]...
> Under Lauer, Sprint will reorganize its operations to focus on the
> consumer market and the business market.

> duh - is there any other?

This sounded stupid to me too, until I realized that the article was probably
just badly written. Up until now, Sprint has been internally organized
according to local, long-distance, and wireless. The new reorganization will
probably reshuffle these into just two major subunits, one for consumer services
and one for business services.

Can a Sprint employee confirm my interpretation?

"Lawrence G. Mayka" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "P Reality" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news[email protected]...
> > Under Lauer, Sprint will reorganize its operations to focus on the
> > consumer market and the business market.
>
> > duh - is there any other?
>
> This sounded stupid to me too, until I realized that the article was
probably
> just badly written. Up until now, Sprint has been internally organized
> according to local, long-distance, and wireless. The new reorganization
will
> probably reshuffle these into just two major subunits, one for consumer
services
> and one for business services.
>
> Can a Sprint employee confirm my interpretation?


It sounds like they're organizing themselves similar to AT&T, with a
Consumer division and a Business division.

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:09:22 GMT, P Reality <[email protected]>
wrote:


>Amazingly Sprint says:
>
>Under Lauer, Sprint will reorganize its operations to focus on the
>consumer market and the business market.
>
>
>
>duh - is there any other?

Yeah, the stock market- very popular with companies that can make more
money playing the market than wasting time with products and
services.

SCO delenda est.
adress is partially sdrawkcab.

In article <[email protected]>,
"Justin" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> "Lawrence G. Mayka" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > "P Reality" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news[email protected]...
> > > Under Lauer, Sprint will reorganize its operations to focus on the
> > > consumer market and the business market.
> >
> > > duh - is there any other?
> >
> > This sounded stupid to me too, until I realized that the article was
> probably
> > just badly written. Up until now, Sprint has been internally organized
> > according to local, long-distance, and wireless. The new reorganization
> will
> > probably reshuffle these into just two major subunits, one for consumer
> services
> > and one for business services.
> >
> > Can a Sprint employee confirm my interpretation?
>
>
> It sounds like they're organizing themselves similar to AT&T, with a
> Consumer division and a Business division.

but AT&T spun off its wireless, rather than folding it into the parent.

"P Reality" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "Justin" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > "Lawrence G. Mayka" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > > "P Reality" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > > news[email protected]...
> > > > Under Lauer, Sprint will reorganize its operations to focus on the
> > > > consumer market and the business market.
> > >
> > > > duh - is there any other?
> > >
> > > This sounded stupid to me too, until I realized that the article was
> > probably
> > > just badly written. Up until now, Sprint has been internally
organized
> > > according to local, long-distance, and wireless. The new
reorganization
> > will
> > > probably reshuffle these into just two major subunits, one for
consumer
> > services
> > > and one for business services.
> > >
> > > Can a Sprint employee confirm my interpretation?
> >
> >
> > It sounds like they're organizing themselves similar to AT&T, with a
> > Consumer division and a Business division.
>
> but AT&T spun off its wireless, rather than folding it into the parent.

Right. I was just referring to the separation along consumer/business
lines.

Mabey combining the stock just makes it look more attractive to
investers.. Who wants to invest in stoke thats around $5 a share that is
rate just above junk..

They have been talking about recombining the stock for years, even when
I was working for them, and before Len became president and CEO.

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Any information I give is subject to change without notice, and may not
be completely accurate.


P Reality <[email protected]> wrote in article
<[email protected]>:
> This is not a Troll. This is the truth:
>
> http://www.marketwatch.com/news/stor...%7B30004AF6%2D
> 4494%2D49A4%2D9CDC%2D5A7B792E9453%7D&
>
>
> SprintPCS has been losing money, so how is that problem solved?
> Improving Customer Service - No
>
> Fold PrintPCS into Sprint and do not report its earnings (or loss)
> separately.
>
> And for this slight of hand the Board of Directors voted to Promote its
> overpaid President Lauer to CEO.
>
> Amazingly Sprint says:
>
> Under Lauer, Sprint will reorganize its operations to focus on the
> consumer market and the business market.
>
>
>
> duh - is there any other?

[posted via phonescoop.com]

P Reality wrote:
> This is not a Troll. This is the truth:
>
> http://www.marketwatch.com/news/stor...%7B30004AF6%2D
> 4494%2D49A4%2D9CDC%2D5A7B792E9453%7D&
>
>
> SprintPCS has been losing money, so how is that problem solved?
> Improving Customer Service - No
>
> Fold PrintPCS into Sprint and do not report its earnings (or loss)
> separately.
>
> And for this slight of hand the Board of Directors voted to Promote
> its overpaid President Lauer to CEO.
>
> Amazingly Sprint says:
>
> Under Lauer, Sprint will reorganize its operations to focus on the
> consumer market and the business market.
>
>
>
> duh - is there any other?

Know what's really interesting? Nowhere in the article does it say the two
companies are merging. Only that they are realigning internally within each
along customer needs lines, rather than strictly along product/offering
lines. The two companies have always operated very closely together, even
when SPCS was split out.

http://144.226.116.29/PR/CDA/PR_CDA_...111787,00.html

Certainly, as I'm sure the MarketWatch story would say if I were willing to
register (and I'm not), that's on our minds. I don't think it's ever *not*
been there, as we reported in our own press release on the matter:

"While we have no timetable for recombining our tracking stocks, we continue
to believe, as we said at our annual shareholders meeting, that a
recombination of the stocks is likely at some point. As always, we clearly
remain committed to doing what is in the best economic and operational
interest of all of our shareholders."

It's a possibility, maybe even a likelihood. unlike what Philly said,
though, it's not a done deal.
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I work for Sprint
I *don't* speak for them

> It's a possibility, maybe even a likelihood. unlike what > Phillipe said,
though, it's not a done deal.


The story was taken straight from a Sprint Corporate Press Release, and not
made up like your posts.
Why would SprintPCS issue the press release if it wasn't a for sure thing???
SprintPCS will be folded back into Sprint, and no one will ever know again how
much money its losing.

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] (Sprintposter) wrote:

> > It's a possibility, maybe even a likelihood. unlike what > Phillipe said,
> though, it's not a done deal.
>
>
> The story was taken straight from a Sprint Corporate Press Release, and not
> made up like your posts.
> Why would SprintPCS issue the press release if it wasn't a for sure thing???
> SprintPCS will be folded back into Sprint, and no one will ever know again how
> much money its losing.



Yup, there goes spoiled Brat Master Vargas condradicting what his own
President said, because I posted it.

"P Reality" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] (Sprintposter) wrote:
>
> > > It's a possibility, maybe even a likelihood. unlike what > Phillipe
said,
> > though, it's not a done deal.
> >
> >
> > The story was taken straight from a Sprint Corporate Press Release, and
not
> > made up like your posts.
> > Why would SprintPCS issue the press release if it wasn't a for sure
thing???
> > SprintPCS will be folded back into Sprint, and no one will ever know
again how
> > much money its losing.
>
>
>
> Yup, there goes spoiled Brat Master Vargas condradicting what his own
> President said, because I posted it.

When I worked for Uncle Peat, and they were going to merge with Ernst and
Young, it was a done deal for months, according to the US Chairman who left
companywide messages on our voicemail once a week. Then, all of the sudden,
it wasn't a good fit anymore.

"Lawrence G. Mayka" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> This sounded stupid to me too, until I realized that the article
> was probably just badly written. Up until now, Sprint has been
> internally organized according to local, long-distance, and
> wireless. The new reorganization will probably reshuffle these
> into just two major subunits, one for consumer services and one
> for business services.
>
> Can a Sprint employee confirm my interpretation?

This is correct. The company is grouping its sales and support into two
divisions: individual-purchasers (IP) and corporate-purchasers (CP).

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In article <[email protected]>,=20
[email protected] says...
> > It's a possibility, maybe even a likelihood. unlike what > Phillipe sa=
id,
> though, it's not a done deal.
>=20
>=20
> The story was taken straight from a Sprint Corporate Press Release, and n=
ot
> made up like your posts.=20
> Why would SprintPCS issue the press release if it wasn't a for sure thing=
???
> SprintPCS will be folded back into Sprint, and no one will ever know agai=
n how
> much money its losing.
>=20

They said they're *considering* it. Maybe you should read the press=20
release for yourself. I posted the link.


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O/Siris
I work for SprintPCS
I *don't* speak for them.