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    • Sprint Watch: A 12 Month Strategic Prognosis [view article]
      Where did you guys read about a WiMAX / iDEN blackberry? The new iDEN blackberry coming out this year is a WiFI / iDEN model, not WiMAX / iDEN. Jun 02 02:14 PM
    • Sprint's 'Against the Odds' Turnaround Looks Less and Less Likely [view article]
      "Short of transplanting headquarters from Kansas to a location where leadership actually has to care about employee satisfaction because there is a market alternative for good talent (rather than knowing that the best alternative is working for H&R Block (HRB), Hallmark Cards, Applebees, McDonald's (MCD) or back to the farm, which has fostered a culture based on fear for one's job security and having the right political connections over self-initiative), or a wholesale change of entrenched management, it's hard to envision a near term solution to the Sprint malaise with the current lineup."

      I love this guy :) Goooooooooooo Ed :)       Apr 29 10:41 AM
    • Sprint Is Still a Steal at Current Levels [view article]
      Kind of hard to change the Wall Street perception when you are bleeding 1 million + subs a quarter. Apr 22 12:58 PM
    • At This Price, Sprint Is a Steal for the Right Suitor [view article]
      Hey Observer,

      What systems, besides a little bit of billing, has Sprint and Nextel integrated?

      The two networks still remain virtually independent to this day except for a few gateways that allow for QCrap and iDEN to work and the connection at the data-center that allows for Sprint CDMA users to access a few legacy Nextel systems...       Mar 27 09:22 AM
    • At This Price, Sprint Is a Steal for the Right Suitor [view article]
      3 incompatible technologies = no good

      GSM - iDEN - CDMA       Mar 26 05:23 PM
    • Undoing the Sprint Nextel Merger [view article]
      Dad,

      The animosity comes from both sides. Being a legacy Nextel employee for 8 years prior to the merger and having dealt with both sides, I can honestly say that legacy Sprint employees are just as hard to deal with as I know the legacy Nextel employees are.

      This is a major part of why the merger did not work. There was too much of a culture clash between the two companies and both though their ways were correct.

      Nextel prided itself on not letting process and procedures get in the way of anything. If a product or service needed to get out the door, we did it by any means necessary. Sprint on the other hand bogs itself down in tickets and unnecessary paperwork. What should take a couple weeks to deploy / test suddenly takes months.

      Something else that slowly happened is that the legacy Nextel managers that are left, slowly surrounded themselves with all the old Nextel people that they had been working with for years and started to exclude the Sprint employees (at least here in Virginia).

      Now after several layoffs all the old Nextel power has left the company, gone to ICO, MSV, Clearwire and the ones who are left are all over in Xohm just praying for a spinoff...       Mar 23 09:17 PM
    • Undoing the Sprint Nextel Merger [view article]
      It could be done very easily. The only place the networks touch currently is in the data centers. The nextel data network never moved over to the Sprintlink network and still currently leases the circuits on its ATM network that it did before the merger.

      The only hard part will be finding the people to engineer it. With the last round of layoffs, there are very few iDEN guys left here in virginia :(       Mar 20 09:25 AM
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