Mr.Nuke

Also a bit ironical given that Comcast to Xfinity is often cited as one of the more dubious name changes, because what is Xfinity? Sprint's brand perception isn't as bad as I had expected (it is basically neutral) and thus they won't change the name. There are too many costs involved with that and the benefits are questionable.

No it really doesn't here as we aren't an independent volunteer maintained site. That said, as a fellow shareholder myself, there is quite a bit of irony here in the sense what you seemingly want isn't beneficial to shareholders.

Then wait and see what the individual plans are later in the week instead of dogging a plan you clearly aren't being targeted for.

I'd call undercutting AT&T & Verizon by $60 a month (37.5% cheaper/month) with double the data on equivalent plans disruptive, but to each their own.

See Discussion in this thread right now. A moderator is currently working on separating the relevant posts from that topic into a new topic. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/4191-softbank-new-sprint-discussion/

It is more complicated than that. Sprint has just shy of 30 million post-paid subscribers right now. Say you give everyone a $5 bill credit. That is $150 million of already earned revenue out the door. Say you drop every existing subscriber's plan by $5 a month to make it more competitive with a hypothetical new individual plan to be announced soon. That is $1.8 billion in lost revenue a year. Are you going to save some subscribers that were thinking about leaving by lowering their bill? Sure, but I doubt it is enough to justify the sacrificed revenue from the customers that have stayed. It is a complicated analysis that I'm sure they've run. Particularly in industries with contracts, most of the attention and deals is always on attracting new customers. Think cable, satellite, wired telephones, fitness centers etc. All of the promotions are directed towards new customers.

Various tech site articles are fairly positive as well. http://www.androidcentral.com/sprints-reworked-framily-plans-bring-more-data-less-through-2015

Additional revenue....

Confirmed from Kansas City.

No he is apparently speaking right now. Both of those tweets are from KC journalists.

I can't see anything about about competing devices announced tomorrow. This was originally obviously about Sharp bringing their first North American phone exclusively to Sprint. It would be bad form to take anything away from Sharp tomorrow. Obviously, the device itself is going to get somewhat overshadowed tomorrow if they announce new plans as expected, but that is a different situation (New CEO out in Public for the first time it is to be expected).

As others have told you in this thread, 700 MHz A Block falls outside of Band 17. It is Band 12.

No "Tisdale" is doing it for AT&T for sure in Nebraska. A roaming deal with USCC is the likely path at this point for Sprint and rural Nebraska.

There is a fairly large fallacy here that Spark was going slow and or it can be sped up. Sprint has been deploying 8T8R equipment so rapidly that the NV 2.0 vendors are having a hard time keeping up with supplying equipment.

You also have to figure Masa and Marcelo are thinking there is an opportunity to get out there with the new plans ahead of the iphone 6 launch. With a lot of iphone 5 users (heck I still know plenty of people on the 4s) coming off contracts and looking to upgrade, there is a window here.

Relatively yes. Sprint's prl's have have been operating in the matter described to you for sometime now. All things equal, the phone will scan for 1900 first. If it finds a usable 1900 signal, it will stay there until it loses it. Your Note II experiences aren't really relevant as you were running a PRL designed to keep you on 1x800.

It won't switch... Current Sprint Android PRL's are constructed in such a way that on the voice side, 1900 and 800 are on an equal priority, but the phone will scan for 1900 first. If it finds a 1900 signal, it will stay on 1900 until it loses it. If the device loses 1900 and finds 800, it will stay on 1x800 until it loses the 1x800 signal. No that really has nothing to do with it. He lives in in area where 1x800 is widely deployed. Like I said above, it isn't a backup. It is just that they're on equal priority. Thus it takes losing a 1900 signal completely to put you on 800.

We are constantly directed to this thread, because your fellow members have (accurately) reported your posts for moderator attention. You have also been warned to use proper English in the past. Consider this a last warning. Posting on this site is not like writing a text message. Writing a proper sentence isn't that difficult.

That would be an error. I merged a 60 page thread with 10 page thread the other day when Sprint bowed out of the T-Mobile bidding and Hesse was canned. I probably should've closed both threads and started a new one. That was my bad. That said that gives you about a 70 page thread (and we are at 85 now) a far cry from 161.

I wouldn't read that much into it. More likely, investors weren't pleased with Masa's comments on the Softbank earning call about aggressive pricing (great for consumers, not so much for investors). As Cletus said, T-Mobile has a bit of an artificial price floor right now with the Iliad bid on the table.

Despite your disclaimer, you still have what happened today fairly right. There was a premium on both Sprint and T-Mobile due to the merger speculation. We saw that eroded today. Sprint may need end up needing to be more competitive on prices (they probably do...), but I think priority one for them is to get NV 1.0 and 2.0 completed and then see where they stand. At that point they will either be providing the best or at the least a very competitive network. There is no need to go to T-Mobile like pump and dump levels yet. I think Sprint needs to (and can afford to) what and see how things shake out in a couple of quarters following 8T8R deployments and then go from there.

Adjustments are carried out historically on sites like yahoo finance. Within the past 2-3 years Sprint has traded on an adjusted basis as low as $2.12 a share. Since 2010 there were 262 days where Sprint on an adjusted basis was trading below $4/share.

They've also been actively deploying Band 5 LTE, which any Band 26 capable Sprint device would be able to use if allowed as 5/26 are subset/supersets.

I don't think you will see any "customer facing changes" this week, but i'd be somewhat surprised if we don't hear from Masa and Claure within the next week or two. After spending the better chunk of this year advocating why a merger was absolutely necessary to take on the duopoly, they need to come out and demonstrate that they have a plan B (and they do). Masa hinted at it in the press release "While we continue to believe industry consolidation will enhance competitiveness and benefit customers, our focus moving forward will be on making Sprint the most successful carrier."

Posts like this are somewhat inaccurate (and I'm not calling you out derrph, I've read several posts with the same sentiment already in this thread). We need to be clear on this. A good chunk of the financing for buying T-Mobile was going to come contingent on and for the buyout. Expanding the network was never an either you expand or buy T-Mobile.