Sprint sucks. Losing 900K customers is not a good business model.

[ChristopherH1]

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Spri...00-subscribers-for-the-second-quarter_id58646

Sprint sucks. Losing 900K customers is not a good business model.
I can say I'm not missing anything from Sprint's crap service, the roaming agreements with Verizon are the only reason to use Sprint at this point from a coverage stand point & there native coverage and there "unlimited" data (per se)
I bet those 900,000 customers are now with T-Mobile.

Now where I live I average 25-40Mb/s during the day, upwards of 50+ at night on T-Mobile. I never saw those speeds when I was with Sprint postpaid and prepaid, I got 1-2Mb/s downloads if I was lucky.

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[raino]

Re: I bet those 900,000 customers are now with T-Mobile

http://www.crackberry.com/strong-subscriber-growth-powers-atts-q2-2014-earnings

http://www.crackberry.com/verizons-second-quarter-profits-soar-highest-recorded-revenue-six-quarters

 

[VW Maverick]

Thanks for your input.

Mav.

 

[npaladin-2000]

Re: I bet those 900,000 customers are now with T-Mobile

Not even a question in my area, T-Mobile's HSPA+ versus Sprint's EVDO, no WiMax, no LTE. Oh, and no bars inside my place.

 

[ChristopherH1]

Not bad for the middle of nowhere Tennessee! Thanks for your input tho!
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/07/27/aby5y2e3.jpg

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That's nice but I get those speeds on HSPA+ 4G lol

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[ChristopherH1]

Had someone respond and tell me: And yet Sprint wants to buy T-Mobile? Makes perfect sense, right? then I replied: Makes perfect sense.. Sprint doesnt have the funds but Softbank does, because its bleeding customers ever day by the loads. Why not try to buy out your competitor when its getting all your customers.

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[VW Maverick]

It's a merger more than a purchase.
Neither can compete with the big 2 alone.
BTW, no problemo with Sprint here in the ATL:

Mav.

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[buffdaddy72]

Sprint expected to report a loss of 900,000 subscribers for the second quarter

Sprint sucks. Losing 900K customers is not a good business model.
I can say I'm not missing anything from Sprint's crap service, the roaming agreements with Verizon are the only reason to use Sprint at this point from a coverage stand point & there native coverage and there "unlimited" data (per se)
I bet those 900,000 customers are now with T-Mobile.

Now where I live I average 25-40Mb/s during the day, upwards of 50+ at night on T-Mobile. I never saw those speeds when I was with Sprint postpaid and prepaid, I got 1-2Mb/s downloads if I was lucky.

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Wow thanks thanks for the douchey yet insightful post! How do you know they're all going to T-Mo?

Yes Sprint still has it's issues but it all depends where you live. T-Mo is good here in Chicago but it suffers from the same thing as Sprint, bad building penetration and dead zones once you get out of the metro area.

I think the rationale behind Softbank buying T-Mobile is that a bigger, better and larger company will have the power to compete against AT&T and Verizon and make them both re-think their pricing strategies.

 

[Almeuit]

Re: I bet those 900,000 customers are now with T-Mobile

http://www.crackberry.com/strong-subscriber-growth-powers-atts-q2-2014-earnings

http://www.crackberry.com/verizons-second-quarter-profits-soar-highest-recorded-revenue-six-quarters

I'd have to say it's this. Sure some went to T-Mobile but it's more people leaving Sprint for.. Pretty much anything else since they're horrible for many.

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[CFR0628]

Re: I bet those 900,000 customers are now with T-Mobile

T-Mobile ***** slapped Sprint in showing them how a proper lte rollout is done.

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[Bigballer]

Re: I bet those 900,000 customers are now with T-Mobile

Look at their plans.

They used to be competetively priced 2-3 years ago with 1500 unlimited (best plan ever). But then they went downhill.

Now they're just as pricey as ATT/Verizon but without the network

 

[npaladin-2000]

I think the rationale behind Softbank buying T-Mobile is that a bigger, better and larger company will have the power to compete against AT&T and Verizon and make them both re-think their pricing strategies.

Corrected your spelling there Personally I think Softbank got caught with their spectrum licenses down. They figured BRS would be a good idea since they had experience with it and it worked so well in Japan, not realizing that USA = not dense and it would be terribly expensive to implement. They want T-Mobile's spectrum: the extra PCS spectrum will let a combined company do a LOT, while still keeping legacy CDMA and GSM going. In the meantime, Sprint will get AWS spectrum, of which they have none, and which is more viable than BRS spectrum, which, along with T-Mobile's 700 Mhz A-block, will probably be unloaded on some unsuspecting regional carriers.

T-Mobile's WiFi calling is also more advanced than Sprint's, and available in more devices in general, which helps a lot with the building penetration issue. Softbank probably wants that too.

 

[VW Maverick]

Also, Deutche Telekom wants to shed its' US division. They are a motivated seller.

It will all work out in the end. It will go through, IMHO.

Mav.

 

[ajonesma]

Or at other carriers. Sprint Sucks in a lot of areas, but in others they are great. Unfortunately their stores don't even have coverage here. Which both sad and funny.

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[Almeuit]

Or at other carriers. Sprint Sucks in a lot of areas, but in others they are great. Unfortunately their stores don't even have coverage here. Which both sad and funny.

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The stores don't? :what:. How would they be able to sell anything?

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[ajonesma]

They have to walk outside to activate everything. Because there is no service inside.

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[Almeuit]

They have to walk outside to activate everything. Because there is no service inside.

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Oh wow.. That sucks.

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[npaladin-2000]

Oh wow.. That sucks.

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Not surprised, the stores here don't have very good signal either. Surprisingly, they've got a lot of stores in the area, maybe they thought dealerships were more important than 4G service (of which there is none, not even according to their generous maps).

 

[Bigballer]

They have to walk outside to activate everything. Because there is no service inside.

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I had the opposite experience. As soon as you walk outside you lose signal.

I felt like they cheated and used "mini-towers" inside their stores.

 

[raino]

Sprint's first quarter 2014 results show they finally turned a profit | CrackBerry.com

The main issue Sprint was experiencing was losing customers, which totalled 383,000 last quarter. This has been reduced to 220,000 and while it's still a sizeable figure, the amount of customers switching is at least dropping.

The network also added a total of 503,000 wholesale and affiliate customers during this quarter, serving over 53 million subscribers at the end of fiscal Q1 2014.