shockernome
@rr.com | reply to Matt
Re: I'll say they have problems
What's the purpose in selling Nextel or sprint to T-mobile .
T-mobile uses GSM not CDMA or iDEN(T) technology.
T-mobile will end up like Sprint/nextel.
What a waste of time. |
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hottboiinnc
Kyle
join:2003-10-15
Toledo, OH
 ·buckeye cable
| They wouldn't have to try and merge the companies together all at once like Spent tired to. T-Mobile could use the towers that Spent-Nextel own to expand their coverage area. And slowly start shutting down the network over a course of a few years and migrate everyone over to T-Mobile. If anyone renews their contract for what ever reason- they'd change to T-Mobile and also have the option to change to TM if they wanted to but NOT have the option to migrate over to Sprint. Wouldn't be hard. Spent should have done that instead of giving customers the option to go from Sprint to Nextel when they knew that the customers would have to change back to Sprint's CDMA network anyway.
Would have just made more sense to only allow customers to migrate from the "purchased" network to the already existing network. |
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hottboiinnc
Kyle
join:2003-10-15
Toledo, OH | TM could also offer special pricing for contract Spent customers. Extend the contract for 2 years and get what ever phones for $XX and the plan for $XX per month. |
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tc1uscg
join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI
·Comcast
·WOW Internet and C..
| reply to hottboiinnc
said by hottboiinnc  :They wouldn't have to try and merge the companies together all at once like Spent tired to. T-Mobile could use the towers that Spent-Nextel own to expand their coverage area. And slowly start shutting down the network over a course of a few years and migrate everyone over to T-Mobile. If anyone renews their contract for what ever reason- they'd change to T-Mobile and also have the option to change to TM if they wanted to but NOT have the option to migrate over to Sprint. Wouldn't be hard. Spent should have done that instead of giving customers the option to go from Sprint to Nextel when they knew that the customers would have to change back to Sprint's CDMA network anyway. Would have just made more sense to only allow customers to migrate from the "purchased" network to the already existing network. Gee, where have I heard that before (and seen it fail).. oh wait.. Sprint just tried that. Problem with that idea (and Sprint has found out), you have a large group of "push to talk" wacko's who do not want to give up the chirp. So, just like Sprint, TM will run the risk of pissing off nextel customers and end up loosing money.. just like Sprint. From my understanding, it's not the CDMA people they are bleeding. It's Nextel. |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
| From what I understand, the CDMA side would still be growing at a lower rate than the competition- but it is growing.
Nextel should just be spun off (or sold off, if you can find anyone), all the people left on it are probably the types who you'd find the hardest to switch to anything else... let the company sink (more likely) or swim on its own, then they can't blame anyone when the ship goes down. |
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hottboiinnc
Kyle
join:2003-10-15
Toledo, OH
·buckeye cable
| reply to tc1uscg
TM doesnt want Nextel. They want Sprint. Sprint has already said they were considering spinning off Nextel to their own company; which would give Sprint the right to sell the Sprint Wireless network.
but no Sprint messed up by not forcing Nextel contracts over to the Sprint side and by allowing customers to change over to Nextel.
Sprint should have NEVER allowed Sprint customers to "migrate" to Nextel knowing they were going to kill the brand. They should have said "no sorry we're only allowing Nextel customers to come over to Sprint's side". Done deal.
and the Push to Talk is either businesses or people that are just usually lazy and do not want to dial a phone or who are generally rude because they feel that everyone should hear their convos on the damn walkie talkies.
and my post that you replied to never said anything about Nextel. I'm talking about the Sprint side. |
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tc1uscg
join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI
·Comcast
·WOW Internet and C..
| Nope.. you didn't but talk about one, you talk about the other.
TM doesn't want Sprint. They want the spectrum. They want the customers. They could care less about the Nortel or 5E switches in markets where they already are. Do you know the cost involved in "converting" them over? They would dump CDMA and show the world what Sprint should have done with it got nextel.
TM also would get most of it's money's worth from Sprints Wireline backbone. It would be like buying a nice new car, opening the trunk and finding a treasure. I would say Sprint was smart to keep it's legacy LD backbone/switches intact when it spun off it's local division. Sad thing is, it's easily overlooked. |
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bobjohnson
Premium
join:2007-02-03
Titusville, FL
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
·RoadRunner Cable
 ·Vonage
|  reply to EPS
said by EPS :From what I understand, the CDMA side would still be growing at a lower rate than the competition- but it is growing. Nextel should just be spun off (or sold off, if you can find anyone), all the people left on it are probably the types who you'd find the hardest to switch to anything else... let the company sink (more likely) or swim on its own, then they can't blame anyone when the ship goes down. Honestly, if Sprint wanted Nextel subs to migrate they could easily convince people with really good deals on phones, plans, wireless cards, etc... Alot of people I know that have legacy Nextel phones won't switch because there is no benefit in doing so... |
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