Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

[Fraydog]

Hulu is granting me the privilege of watching. The Verizon commercials every break. God they suck. And that's not me being biased towards sprint: they just suck.

 

 

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I liked the Luke McCown one that had the tower sideways to get the entire tower in. 

 

https://youtu.be/JdDj3eRz0XQ

[Johnner1999]

$150. Which is ridiculous when the screen is probably like $10.

 

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Thanks.

 

The screens are expensive, they are actually pretty costly.

 

 

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[sbolen]

Looks like Sprint may be selling Apple Watch soon: http://9to5mac.com/2015/09/16/sprint-apple-watch/

[JonnygATL]

I am not answering that question.  Your S4GRU avatar looks like Agent Smith.

 

AJ

Smart man. Even smarter than I'd imagined.

[utiz4321]

I just want to say Assurion sucks. I wish Sprint had a different option for insurance. I have best buy on my G4 ( haven't used it yet) but my other line still has Assurion. Made a claim Sept 11 and I'm still waiting for approval. I even called Sprint even though it wasn't their fault they gave me a credit anyway. It really shouldn't take a week for a replacement.

There's more to add but I don't want too long of a rant.

 

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Assurion handles the insurance for all of the major carriers, so they are kind of the only game in town if you want a carrier based insurance solution. But hey at least you don't have to pay off you phone and buy a new one.

[MacinJosh]

Looks like Sprint may be selling Apple Watch soon: http://9to5mac.com/2015/09/16/sprint-apple-watch/

Apple Watch on Easy Pay? I'll take one!

 

 

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[smooth25]

Assurion handles the insurance for all of the major carriers, so they are kind of the only game in town if you want a carrier based insurance solution. But hey at least you don't have to pay off you phone and buy a new one.

True for lost, stolen and total damage but paying full deductible for screen damage is bull. They are receiving a functional device.

 

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[RedSpark]

Apple Watch on Easy Pay? I'll take one!

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An Apple Watch lease or bundle with iPhone/iPad would be awesome.

 

Apple Watch Forever? Brightstar could make this happen for Sprint.

[RedSpark]

Tune in today: http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-releases/sprint-ceo-marcelo-claure-to-speak-sept-17-at-goldman-sachs-communacopia-conference.htm

 

"Chief Executive Officer Marcelo Claure will speak at the Goldman Sachs 24th Annual Communacopia Conference in New York City on Thursday, Sept. 17 at 4:35 PM ET. A live audio webcast of this session may be accessed at www.sprint.com/investors. The replay will be available shortly after the actual presentation."

 

Hopefully some more tidbits on Sprint's progress.

[Rocket87]

Looks like Sprint may be selling Apple Watch soon: http://9to5mac.com/2015/09/16/sprint-apple-watch/

Its launching soon in 401 corp stores, other corp stores will get it later but can order them at launch.

 

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[Ascertion]

Something I've found interesting are these numbers (pulled from a comment on FierceWireless.)

 

 

 

T-Mobile Q2 2015:
* 2.1 million net adds, 1.0 million postpaid adds
* 12% revenue growth year on year
* 18% total revenue growth year on year
* 25% EBITDA growth year on year
* 3.8% ARPU growth to $48.19
* 5.9% ABPU growth to $63.29
* 6.0% ARPA growth to $113.50
* 15.6% branded postpaid billings per account growth to a record $152.31

** Cost of services $1.397 billion ***

From Sprint Q2 2015
* 675,000 net adds, 310,000 post paid adds
* 12,000 postpaid phone losses
* 2.56% ARPU decline to $55.48 from $56.94 in March and $62.07 year on year
* 0% ABPU growth $61.67 same as March, but down 3.01% year on year
* 1.05% ABPA growth to $164.63

**Cost of services $2.393 billion**

Anyone know why Sprint's cost of service is almost a $billion more? 

[RedSpark]

Looks like Sprint may be selling Apple Watch soon: http://9to5mac.com/2015/09/16/sprint-apple-watch/

 

There's truth to that rumor! 

 

http://static.sprint.com/landings/iphone-forever/apple-watch.html#!/

[smooth25]

Does Dish have any other spectrum useful for Sprint?

 

 

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[Deval]

Looks like Sprint may be selling Apple Watch soon: http://9to5mac.com/2015/09/16/sprint-apple-watch/

 

Not bad, wouldn't mind getting one on Easy Pay.

[Deval]

Does Dish have any other spectrum useful for Sprint?

 

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Not really, but Dish bought a lot of AWS spectrum that Verizon could use.

[RedSpark]

Great RCR Wireless interview with Tracy Nolan, President and General Manager Of Illinois and Wisconsin for Sprint.

 

 

They cover a bunch of interesting topics including Sprint's Chicago Network investments for LTE-Advanced and her specific role in building Sprint's Network/Retail/Distribution there.

[jeffcarp]

Assurion handles the insurance for all of the major carriers, so they are kind of the only game in town if you want a carrier based insurance solution. But hey at least you don't have to pay off you phone and buy a new one.

Other than not knowing there are other alternatives why would anybody specifically seek out a carrier-based insurance product versus a non carrier based? Worth Ave Group has to be the worst marketers I've ever seen but their insurance product is vastly superior. SquareTrade is doing much better in the advertising realm right now and while their product isn't as good as Worth Ave Group, it is still superior to the carrier products.

[avb]

Another Root Metrics Venue report - Oakland Coliseum.  Sprint won out right, but it's because all the carriers are bad here.  Verizon had the best speeds by far, while Sprint was the most reliable.  T-Mobile was so bad it couldn't even get a grade.

 

http://www.rootmetrics.com/us/rsr/oco-coliseum/2015/2H

[bigsnake49]

Same argument could be made for T-Mobile too. I'm kind of surprised T-Mobile hasn't hit the college towns hard for marketing in a way. Those places literally are producing future T-Mobile customers and employees. College towns hit so many of the Magenta check marks that it's not even funny. Yet it's a neglected market for them. A market where they could gain huge growth.

They are on daddy's AT&T plan, that's why!

[bigsnake49]

Something I've found interesting are these numbers (pulled from a comment on FierceWireless.)

 

 

 

Anyone know why Sprint's cost of service is almost a $billion more?

Increased Capex vs T-Mobile?

[cletus]

Great RCR Wireless interview with Tracy Nolan, President and General Manager Of Illinois and Wisconsin for Sprint.

 

 

They cover a bunch of interesting topics including Sprint's Chicago Network investments for LTE-Advanced and her specific role in building Sprint's Network/Retail/Distribution there.

Very cool interview. I hadn't really considered the direct2u stuff but now I kinda get the appeal of it.

[Fraydog]

Something I've found interesting are these numbers (pulled from a comment on FierceWireless.)

 

 

 

Anyone know why Sprint's cost of service is almost a $billion more?

More organizational overhead?

[utiz4321]

If you haven't already seen it, this

with Sprint's Marcelo Claure and Cisco's Chuck Robbins from the recent CTIA Super Mobility Conference is definitely enjoyable viewing. Go Sprint Go!

I wonder if anyone had any insights on what he meant by doing backhaul differently and how he plans to speed up that process?

[RedSpark]

I wonder if anyone had any insights on what he meant by doing backhaul differently and how he plans to speed up that process?

 

See here:

 

"Our engineering experience and our depth of 2.5GHz spectrum give us flexibility, and we expect to utilize various options for deployment of backhaul in order to balance performance, costs and speed to market," Sprint spokeswoman Adrienne Norton told FierceWireless regarding Sprint's backhaul plans. Some analysts have speculated that Sprint will likely use in-band wireless backhaul solutions using the lower 2.5 GHz spectrum band that would not require line of sight.

 

It'll be interesting to see how they do this.

[Calvin200]

Who has a link that works for the Goldman Sachs/Marcelo even today?