Conan Kudo

There are those who prefer to ignore that Sprint has been working to attack the same demographic that T-Mobile has successfully managed to capture. At this point, most of those subscribers (being young and generally poorly paid right now) aren't considered extremely valuable by the bigger three operators. The problem with that is that they are becoming an increasingly important portion of the subscriber base. The number of people that make up this portion increase almost daily, and they are poorly serviced by the larger operators. Both Sprint and T-Mobile try very hard to court these subscribers. Sprint tries to with Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile, and T-Mobile does so with its main brand and its MetroPCS brand. The issue is, Sprint doesn't seem to be providing the value for the cost in many places these days, so these subscribers are leaving for T-Mobile (which is why the TMUS/Sprint porting ratio is ~3.5:1 in favor of T-Mobile). And waiting around isn't good enough either. Perhaps they'll come back if Sprint manages to execute on completing the development of Network Vision/Spark in time. For Sprint, this is a horrible outcome. The more subscribers that leave, the less money Sprint has to complete its deployment. SoftBank is not going to be willing to invest in Sprint if they can't keep the subscribers they have. It makes no business sense to dump money into a company that isn't executing to provide a reasonable ROI on that investment. So even though SoftBank owns Sprint and has oodles of cash, it won't give Sprint money if it can't prove it can execute. If that sounds familiar, I'll remind you of where that's from: T-Mobile USA's former situation with Deutsche Telekom. When T-Mobile USA started executing well and gaining subscribers last year, Deutsche Telekom increased the annual budget for network deployment and other growth initiatives for this year and next year. I wouldn't be surprised if Deutsche Telekom increases the budget again as T-Mobile's business plans continues to be very successful.

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I would think that it would actually be T-Mobile. I cannot count the number times T-Mobile has been forced to build out coverage after AT&T or Verizon bought out a roaming partner...

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