A Sprint employee

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    • Thu Aug 14th 21:59 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Dan Hesse, Sprint, and the Anatomy of Taking a CEO Job
      Danny boy is a hypocrite. Highest paid CEO in the industry in the continuously worst-performing company in the industry. The board took him out of desperation and their own ignorance. He has done nothing to change the everybody-out-for-thei... culture within the company (and repeats the mantra "It is all because of the merger") to blame everything on. Sprint's culture is broken, and he doesn't see it. Like most, I pray that whoever buys us can fix us....Dan can't do it.
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    • Wed Mar 26th 23:51 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      At This Price, Sprint Is a Steal for the Right Suitor
      It is highly likely that someone will buy S, but why break it up? Sprint has, much to Gary Forsee's chagrin, finally embraced IDEN and integrated the majority of the systems to work together. And in the wake of the monster players, it would be difficult for a stand-alone Nextel to survive. Just like if Chrysler decided to spin off the Jeep line. How can a niche player survive without a bigger brother to buy them economies of scale?

      So who would buy it? Not private equity groups...their source of funding has dried up. S may be undervalued, but it is still a monster number. Alltel was just bought by such a private equity group, so unlikely they have $20-30 Billion kicking around. Verizon (contrary to the author's opinion) would face severe scrutiny by the Feds, and in any case, if they don't make the move in the next month or so then they could very well roll into the next administration. And if that administration is not Republican, it is highly unlikely to be approved. And, of course, Vodafone may have no desire to be involved in all of this, and as silent co-owners, they call the shots. I think that Carlos Slim should be the one. He knows the business, it gets him an immediate base, and with the right marketing he could double (triple, quadruple) calls between his two customer bases (US and Mexico), in the only area that is NOT covered in anyone's calling plans--international long distance. Money to be made there.
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    • Tue Jan 29th 18:02 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Who Would Want Sprint? Google, Comcast
      I keep hearing the rumors about Google...but nobody has ever tracked any kind of a reliable source for this so-called rumor. It is, in fact, speculation based upon Google's oodles of cash and thier current interest in wireless things, and Sprint's ever deepening hole that they have put themselves in. Like Duff said...why would they want to go from a free-wheeling internet/software model of write-it-once-and-sell... to Sprint's heavily regulated, incredibly capital intensive, intensely competitive environment.
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    • Thu Dec 6th 00:19 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Sprint: Yet Another Bad Decision
      Todd, and The Disciple are dead on. Listen to them. Learn from them. They speak the truth. I know. I am there. I watch in amazement as the current Sprint staff blame everything on that crusty old one-of-a-kind push to talk thing. They blame the incredibly inept 1st, 2nd and even 3rd marketing campaigns on the merger. They blame the complete lack of unoriginal phone selections on the merger. They blame the highest prices for me too handsets on the merger. They blame the lackluster plans on the merger. Their strategy was that if they could piss off all those icky walkie-talkie carriers they would all convert to Sprint technology and allow them to shut that creaky old iDEN network down. Out in the field, we know the truth. For 4 quarters in a row we have signed up almost as many new customers as VZW and ATT...but we have lost even more than that for a net loss. Why? The complete lack of customer focus, customer service, and customer feeding and caring. The phones on both networks are fine (if unoriginal and overpriced) and the networks themselves are what they are...pretty damned good. But if a customer ever has occassion to be in touch with Sprint customer care they will do something (or not do something they told the customer they would) that is guaranteed to make them leave. And then the Sprint management will blame it on the merger. How disingenious. I continue to be amazed at how most analyts seem to buy this story line.
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