Nightshade
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October 11th, @03:20AM
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It don't matter if it's the best thing in the world for sprint. If the investors don't want it, then it will not happen.
Hopefully the investors will feel the same way about Xohm as they do about residental fiber.
Hopefully the investors will not shoot themselves in the foot by worrying about the here and now, rather what is best for the company's future.
Only time will tell. |
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RadioDoc
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Chicago, IL | Sprint has never, ever, followed through on any project outside their core business. This won't be any different. Ask anyone who lived through Sprint Broadband Direct or ION for details.
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | reply to Nightshade
Hopefully the investors will feel the same way about residential fiber as they do about Xohm. Are you saying you hope the investors NIX residential fiber, or did you mean "Don't feel the same way"? |
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
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said by RadioDoc  :Sprint has never, ever, followed through on any project outside their core business. This won't be any different. Ask anyone who lived through Sprint Broadband Direct or ION for details. They have been very successful with the EVDO rollout. Check out evdoforums.com as Sprint is outselling Verizon 2-1 with EVDO cards. |
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rec9140
Provoice just DO it
join:2003-07-29
Mulberry, FL
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| said by xenophon :
They have been very successful with the EVDO rollout. Check out evdoforums.com as Sprint is outselling Verizon 2-1 with EVDO cards.
Theres a very simple reason for that:
TOS
VZW - Draconian
Sprint - Slurp away.
VZW has a better network coverage wise, but its TOS is absolutely useless for real use. I've had VZW for my cell service long before it even was VZW, but I will never use them for data.
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xenophon
join:2007-09-17
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| Sprint has slightly better EVDO coverage on average than Verizon and Sprint has EVDO roaming on Alltel while Verizon does not. Huge EVDO rural areas in some states.
The only area where Verizon EVDO is better than Sprint may be in customer support. Verizon's support is still poor compared to consumer products, but Sprint is even worse.
But, true, Verizon's draconian TOS has helped Sprint. |
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RadioDoc
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Chicago, IL
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said by xenophon :said by RadioDoc :Sprint has never, ever, followed through on any project outside their core business. This won't be any different. Ask anyone who lived through Sprint Broadband Direct or ION for details. They have been very successful with the EVDO rollout. Check out evdoforums.com as Sprint is outselling Verizon 2-1 with EVDO cards. Doesn't change this situation one bit. Outselling Verizon is no great achievement given Verizon's TOS silliness. They'll punt WiMax like they did everything else outside their core business.
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Nightshade
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Actually, it should of said, "Hopefully the investors will feel the same way about Xohm as they do about residental fiber."
Thanks for catching that. 
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tc1uscg
join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI
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said by Nightshade :It don't matter if it's the best thing in the world for sprint. If the investors don't want it, then it will not happen. Hopefully the investors will feel the same way about Xohm as they do about residental fiber. Hopefully the investors will not shoot themselves in the foot by worrying about the here and now, rather what is best for the company's future. Only time will tell. Your right, and what the investors need to know is it will strike a big blow to Sprints employee's moral, which in turn, isn't going to help the company go anywhere but down the tubes. |
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