CaptainSlow

... the old-fashioned way: more people coming in, less people walking out.

Series resistance.

With AT&T results coming below analysts' expectations, Verizon padding subscriber additions with tablet sales, and Legere saying port-ins from Sprint have reduced, I hope it means Sprint will finally break into positive subscriber growth even without using tablets as crutches.

Legere indicated as much in the GWS chat. He said port-in ratio from Sprint to T-Mobile had fallen from 4:1 to 3:1.

Well, that's a Mercedes so technically it's both a luxury car and RV in one.

Sprint is now #2 at Raleigh airport, losing to Verizon by a whisker and handily beating AT&T and T-Mobile. In fact, Sprint's DL speed was more than AT&T and T-Mobile's combined! Edit: link. http://www.rootmetrics.com/us/rsr/rdu-airport/2014/2H

^^ I have no idea but would guess it's the former, at a minimum. Not sure about the later. Maybe someone more knowledgeable can comment.

If ~6,000 WiMax sites will be decommissioned as the article says, that leaves ~11,000 sites that Sprint will retain and convert to Network Vision. That's good news.

The Speedtest app uses the most data on your phone.

So Sprint moved to 2nd place in the latest Root Metrics report [emoji106]. First at O'Hare airport and second overall in the city is a great story for Sprint! Meanwhile T-Mobile fell from #1 to #4.

At the rate of a few hundred thousand letters per year, it might take a while to get to all 55 million customers. [emoji1]

It's probably this. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2012/08/sprint-customers-get-a-handwritten-thank-you-note/1#.VCf4g8vD8m8

Discount will only continue as long the user has an iPhone, in which case the profit will continue as well.

That would be true if, like in Europe and Asia, service and devices were entirely decoupled. If Sprint is involved in subsidizing/financing/leasing the device, that are absolutely going to promote their more profitable products more than other products. (And here, product actually means product+service.) Businesses routinely claim to "pass on their cost savings" to customers, and this isn't any different. With higher device resale value, lower network impact and higher spending customers, iPhones put more money into Sprint's pockets, so they are passing on some savings to customers. Whether it happens in the form of service discounts, device discount or a $240 Visa Gift Card hardly matters - it's just accounting jugglery at that point.

Lol, no, just saying that weirder pricing systems are somehow acceptable in other industries.