I don't think I saw this story posted yet.
http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-11/sprint-ceo-plans-cost-cuts-to-compete-aggressively-for-users.html?cmpid=yhoo
Painting an honest picture, from the start it seems.
I'd be curious if this wasn't Son's own doing. What are odds he was already in control of the board back when Dan was inches from buying metroPCS.
My logic being:
Dan had a plan to strengthen sprint for the cheap.
Son didn't agree and said something like hey I'll take my offer off the table if you buy metro. As son wanted tmo as well and the feds never would have agreed if sprint bought two competitors. ...
Yeah its a stretch.
Maybe a crazy thought, but why compete to the bottom by out pricing lower than tmo.
Why not go aggressive on price with AT&T - which should still leave some margin.
Either way I think it's going to be a fun fun ride! Especially with Marcelo and Son on a mission.
I have many times... my area has had failed towers for the past 3+ years. Occurs weekly on a bad cycle and every 3 weeks on a good cycle. So what he is saying does click.
Per the map in premier all but one tower on NV and of those all 800/3g/lte.
Stopped at my local non corporate store... and they said nothing really changed except data speeds are higher in the 20 ' s now vs 2-5 mbps. But towers still not working and weekly outages of lte to only 3g which is still sub 500kbps :-(
They said the 800 towers are not lte and won't be till early 2015.
So unfortunately I have to stay with Verizon double sad faces.
Unless I'm reading this wrong... I like it. Can't imagine that it would be long before changes happen. Other wise wouldn't people wait in signing up?
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/With-Hesse-Out-Sprint-Hints-at-a-Price-War-130003
Agreed
But in the market place of deep discounts on triple play deals - it may need to happen in the distant future.
Not to mention Dish ' s new over the top (Internet tv) it may be a nice fit.