marioc21
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Thats gonna def affect me since I live in the greater Charlottesville area.
How does nTelos define their Eastern and Western markets? Based on the lack of native Sprint coverage in Charlottesville I would think you should be all right.
I believe the Charlottesville area falls into the SNA coverage area. Sprint's towers seem to stop to the east of the city on I-64. NTelos is shutting down from Richmond eastward.
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How long will they have their bill halved? 2 years? 1 year?
Here's sprint's official press release: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sprint-offer-cut-wireless-bill-150400419.html
It looks like you get to keep your half-price rate for as long as you keep that same plan.
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The half-off rate from Sprint will be based on the monthly voice, text and data rate plan charge for all lines on the customer’s Verizon or AT&T bill. For example, Verizon customers paying $140/month for four lines of service to share can get four lines of service from Sprint for $70/month. Customers are entitled to the half-off rate as long as they remain on the plan.
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You mean this: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-02/sprint-targets-at-t-verizon-with-half-price-promotion.html?cmpid=yhoo
It's called "Cut your bill in half."
Sprint Corp. (S) is taking the price skirmish directly to Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. (T) with a promise to cut customer bills in half for those that switch from its larger rivals.
Verizon and AT&T customers who provide a copy of their bill at Sprint stores starting Dec. 5 will be offered a gift card for as much as $350 to cover phone costs and early termination penalties if they leave their carrier. They will then be matched with a similar service plan from Sprint for half the price.
The “cut your bill in half” event is the latest move by new Sprint Chief Executive Officer Marcelo Claure to end more than seven years of customer losses at the struggling No. 3 U.S. carrier. Since he was hired in September, the CEO has announced a management shuffle and the elimination of 2,000 more jobs as he targets the lowest cost of service among the top four wireless operators.
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Well here's a little ntelos news to start your morning. Ntelos is refocusing it's business exclusively in the area covered by the SNA agreement with Sprint. As part of that refocus it's selling its 1900MHz spectrum in eastern and central Virginia to TMo and will shut down its retail ops in those areas.
http://m.seekingalpha.com/pr/11855085-ntelos-holdings-corp-announces-strategic-refocus
Sent from my LG-LS980 using TapatalkEdit: Corrected post to reflect that NTelos was selling spectrum to TMo not its retail business.
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Looks like the Hesse ads are coming back only in español and with Marcelo. I wonder if they'll be in black and white?
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sprint-ceo-marcelo-claure-speaks-131000702.html
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So the water tower next to the old Clover Hill High School started broadcasting LTE this week. You can now get a LTE signal from past woodlake most of the way into Richmond along 360. Don't know when it'll pop up on Robert's updates list but it should be soon.
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After another round it looks like total is up past $21 billion.
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And now Marcelo and Sprint bring you Ipad leasing.
http://www.cnet.com/news/sprint-extends-leasing-program-to-new-ipads/
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Interesting he says that...$45/month for unlimited everything on Framily is just slightly lower than my lines per month. $240/5=$48 for ED 1500 w/ 26% corp discount. But...mine's subsidized. Framily isn't.
EDIT: Our plan doesn't have unlimited minutes, although we haven't come very close to the max 1500 yet for the month.
I had the same plan but with 3 lines and a 15% corp discount. Switching to Framily with 7+ lines on it saved me about $100/month. I'll trade the subsidy for that much in savings.
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S: Sprint's (S) CEO Marcelo Claure Presents at Wells Fargo Technology, Media & Telecom Conference (Transcript) http://m.seekingalpha.com/article/2675845?source=ansh
The whole transcript of today conference call.
Like this section from the transcript:
Marcelo Claure - CEOAnd the reason why it’s been a very long time that the brand stood for SoftBank. I think the last of things [ph] was something behind family, which was put in together friends and family. And it’s okay to have made but that didn’t work. The reason why it didn’t work was it was a plan in which you’ve got this, if you recruited more people you got more discounts. And the problem is thousands of people got together on the internet and started sharing calls. So everybody created more friends and family than what Sprint expected.
So in the end, what really doomed Framily plans was that they were too successful? Too many people managed to hit the magic 7 I guess.
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They are.
I must be missing something here, because I don't see the value of this. Is Sprint so worried that FreedomPop will start selling T-Mobile service / get aquired by them, that it's worth buying the company?
Unless I'm missing something, the only thing FreedomPop has is 250k-ish subscribers on low-revenue, prepaid plans. Based on the expected purchase offer of 250-450 million, that would mean Sprint hypothetically values FreedomPop at $1,000 to $1,800 per subscriber.
For a prepaid, low revenue subscriber. They'd have to keep that subscriber for 4 to 8+ years, just to recoup the purchase price.
If you read usa today story it mentions fact that FP has very low customer acquisition costs and has a gotten about 50% of the signups to go from free to paying. Figure Sprint is looking at their marketing/Tech/Management model and thinks it can use it to acquire more customers.
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Well, I remember a fiercewireless story about freedompop talking to one of the big 4. Speculated that it was probably sprint. Now we have a little more light on the subject.
SAN FRANCISCO — Sprint Corp., the struggling No. 3 U.S. wireless player now owned by Japan's Softbank, is in talks with a Los Angeles-based wireless startup about a possible acquisition that could boost Sprint's revenue growth and lower its subscriber-acquisition costs, said two people familiar with the talks.
The talks are fluid, meaning they could lead to an investment, an acquisition or no deal between the companies. Other suitors have emerged for FreedomPop, among them a large U.S. technology company and a smaller wireless carrier, said these people.
An acquisition would likely value all of FreedomPop in a range between $250 million and $450 million, while an investment would value it closer to $200 million.
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"Our goal next will be to get to postpaid phone net additions," which are the path to profitability for Sprint, Claure said on the conference call.
FreedomPop has been acquiring post-paid wireless subscribers on the cheap, then has held onto them thanks to plans that begin at $5 a month and a peer-to-peer platform for trading minutes.
The startup, which began life as a wireless hotspot provider, acquires 95% of its subscribers online, making its customer-acquisition costs of $4 per user a tiny fraction of Sprint's.
FreedomPop is converting 50% of consumers who try its free service into paying customers, company officials told me in an interview earlier this year.
The two companies have had a partnership for more than a year, with Sprint adding thousands of the startups users onto its wholesale wireless network.
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In Richmond we are getting lte in areas. My question is when they decide to flip the switch will we see a stronger signal?
Sprint doesn't "flip a switch" to light up a market like other providers have done. Individual towers come online as they are ready.
Sent from my Note 4.
True, but they do come back to tune the towers later. So power output, transmitter directions, adding more carriers, etc. is all done after tower is up and running. Could be months afterward.
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Webcast of earnings call is available here if anyone is interested.
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And here is the ntelos transcript for anyone interested.
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Here is the Shentel earnings call transcript.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2625555-shenandoah-telecommunications-shen-ceo-christopher-french-on-q3-2014-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single-
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Anyone actually taken ZVE in an OTA that is not rooted?
Still waiting for it to pop up on my phone.
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That's the first thing I thought.
Interesting that Verizon numbers rely heavily on tablet sales. I wish Sprint would do the same but alas they don't have a large tablet selection.
Regardless, it is going to be very interesting to see the numbers on Nov 3.
They have. That's why the Galaxy Tab 3 has been going for "Free" for most of 2014. I believe the last positive postpaid numbers they reported back in Q4 of '13 or Q1 of '14 were due to tablet sales.
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A call in the evening. That's new. Always was early in the morning under Hesse. In fact, so early, that West Coast people often slept through it.
Mr. Claure must be late riser. Hesse must've been one of those guys who's up at 5 am and in office by 6.
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Sprint's 2nd quarter results will be officially released on Monday, November 3rd. An earnings call will be held at 4:30pm ET.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sprint-corporation-schedules-second-quarter-143000928.html
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I was going to try and set my BSR Timer down to 3 instead of 3000, but can't seem to get my MSL number. I tried ##443336772#
with no luck. Any other way to get the MSL code?
That dialer code was disabled with the ZVC or ZVD update. Shame. Only other way I know of is to ask Sprint for it. But I've never had much luck that way.
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I still have the issue. I guess I have become so used to toggling airplane mode.
Somewhere I found a fix. There was some kind of typo in the last update. You had to go into the ##DATA# screen and change a LTE timer setting. Once I did that my phone has run fine. I guess this update will probably fix that typo.
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I'm still trying to figure out what the "improvements to LTE attachment" actually is....
I remember reading a few complaints about the phone not holding onto LTE after the ZVD update was applied. The phone would latch onto LTE but then drop it and stay on 3g. I believe this will fix that.
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Still no wifi calling? Seems safe to assume at this point that Sprint is never going to add it it to this phone. Disappointing.
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Shentel / Sprint LTE - (was ntelos - West & N&W Virginia)
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They spun off their landline and fiber business as Lumos Networks several years ago.