SBC to buy SprintPCS ?

CAT0NHAT wrote:

>> I just want to point out that the guys facts are a
>> bit off. No big carrier
>> has 25-35% churn, it should be 2.5-3.5%. If all
>> the carriers had 25% churn
>> they'd all be out of business.
>
> He may have not made it clear. The 2.5% to 3.5% are monthly churn. The
> 25%+ is
> an annual churn, and yes companies (like Sprint) with that kind of churn
> are in trouble, losing money, and predicted to see their churn increase by
> 50%, as thats what happened in England when portability came in.

Provide facts for 25% annual churn. And BTW- the 2.5 and 3.5% are
quaretely, not monthly. Please attempt to get facts.

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> Provide facts for 25% annual churn. And BTW-
> the 2.5 and 3.5% are
> quaretely, not monthly. Please attempt to get
> facts.

Typically Sprint apologist attempt to obfuscate.

The facts are listed in the Reuters story and Sprints quarterly report to the
SEC. And the 2.5% is monthly for the quarter.

PLEASE GET YOUR FACTS CORRECT.

CAT0NHAT wrote:

>> Provide facts for 25% annual churn. And BTW-
>> the 2.5 and 3.5% are
>> quaretely, not monthly. Please attempt to get
>> facts.
>
> Typically Sprint apologist attempt to obfuscate.
>
> The facts are listed in the Reuters story and Sprints quarterly report to
> the SEC. And the 2.5% is monthly for the quarter.
>
> PLEASE GET YOUR FACTS CORRECT.


OK Phil, you just contradicted yourself. The SEC filing contains QUARTERLY
numbers. You find a single monthly figure on the 10Q you are referring to,
and point it out for the world to see. As someone who makes his living
providing information for the SEC filings of his company, and analyzing the
filings of other companies, I will tell you that the 2.5% is for the
quarter. All of the numbers on a 10Q are quarterly figures, which is why
it is a quarterly report.

Nice try, Mr. Apologist. 2.5% per quarter does not equal 25-35% per year. 2.5%
per month does.

CAT0NHAT wrote:

> Nice try, Mr. Apologist. 2.5% per quarter does not equal 25-35% per year.
> 2.5% per month does.


You didn't show me any monthly stats, twerp. Look at the 10Q- you'll notice
that the column is labled for the quarter.

You might want to try Hooked On Phonics- it helped my six year old to read.
It should be right up your mentally challenged alley.

CAT0NHAT wrote:

> Nice try, Mr. Apologist. 2.5% per quarter does not equal 25-35% per year.
> 2.5% per month does.


You didn't show me any monthly stats, twerp. Look at the 10Q- you'll notice
that the column is labled for the quarter.

You might want to try Hooked On Phonics- it helped my six year old to read.
It should be right up your mentally challenged alley.

never mind all the stats .. . .

fact is, sprint's phones and service is "ok" their customer service,
billing, and credit departments are obtuse, rude, ignorant, detached,
and could care less about retention. just as soon as WLNP is
effective, me and millions of others will go. and hopefully this
dishonest, bull**** bunch of slugs from kansas will go the way of
other bull**** companies like kmart, mci and enron.

next to mci, kmart and aol, sprint is one of the worst run companies
in america.

It seems to me that if a company reports a first quarter churn of
2.5 percent and a second quarter churn of 3.0 percent and a third
quarter churn of 3.5 percent and a fourth quarter churn of 3.0 percent;
that would still mean that the annual churn was 3.0 percent.
The point I am seeing is that for all six major carriers, they
added more new subscribers than they had old ones churn.

Scott Stephenson wrote:
> CAT0NHAT wrote:
>
>
>>>I just want to point out that the guys facts are a
>>>bit off. No big carrier
>>>has 25-35% churn, it should be 2.5-3.5%. If all
>>>the carriers had 25% churn
>>>they'd all be out of business.
>>
>>He may have not made it clear. The 2.5% to 3.5% are monthly churn. The
>>25%+ is
>>an annual churn, and yes companies (like Sprint) with that kind of churn
>>are in trouble, losing money, and predicted to see their churn increase by
>>50%, as thats what happened in England when portability came in.
>
>
> Provide facts for 25% annual churn. And BTW- the 2.5 and 3.5% are
> quaretely, not monthly. Please attempt to get facts.

Jerome Zelinske wrote:

> It seems to me that if a company reports a first quarter churn of
> 2.5 percent and a second quarter churn of 3.0 percent and a third
> quarter churn of 3.5 percent and a fourth quarter churn of 3.0 percent;
> that would still mean that the annual churn was 3.0 percent.
> The point I am seeing is that for all six major carriers, they
> added more new subscribers than they had old ones churn.
>

Quite right- actually maybe lower than that, depending on the increase in
subscriber base. Phil just makes up numbers to suit his needs.

AOL will buy SprintPCS and make it all better!

auditor wrote:

> AOL will buy SprintPCS and make it all better!


Yeah- the investors would love that. I wonder if they would give package
deals to customers that want to dump both at once.