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    IT'S THE WiMAX COUNTDOWN!!!

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    For areas that did not have to follow the injunction how long before the network went dark to being live with additional carriers online? Does the shut down happen officially this evening, then a software update pushed in the next few days?

    Unknown. It *should* happen right away, but we have no evidence of that since there hasn't been a mass WiMax shutdown yet.

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

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    Free of charge? Because I'm trying to return something to Amazon right now and I am definitely paying return shipping. Amazon is definitely a place where one would BYOD from.

    Returning free of charge only applies if their is a defect in the product or if it was damaged during shipping, otherwise you pay. For example, I purchased a cooking scale from Amazon but found it to be subpar. I bought a different one and was planning to return the one I bought, but it's going to cost me half the cost of the item in shipping to return it.

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

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    Kind of a sickening way to end an article;

     

     

     

     

    So buy a 5.5 mil house, to live in 1 day a month, while laying off thousands of people.

     

    Yes I realize that Masa earned his money and can spend it any way he likes, but that still doesn't lessen the impact.

    It's Masa's personal fortune, he can do whatever he wants with it. Yes it sucks that Sprint is laying off employees but doesn't really matter.
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    Marcelo Claure, Town Hall Meetings, New Family Share Pack Plan, Unlimited Individual Plan, Discussion Thread

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

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    According to the Reddit thread on this topic, 6 call centers are closing and 2000 people are losing their jobs. Sprint is apparently going to go "all-in" on vendor-provided customer care which I'm sure will be top tier! /sarcasm

    Every company that goes this route soon finds out it does not work. The vendor will hire anybody and everybody and none of then will have a clue. You will get transferred around, lied to, and whatever it takes to just cover up your issue.

    Sprint even tried it in the past and it failed. It will fail again.

    The $2.5B in cuts has to come from somewhere and execs have said many times that everything is on the chopping block.

     

    I don't think you can make the jump that Sprint will outsource a lot of their customer care. They might outsource some, but I don't think they'll go 1 for 1. They may have found they can provide customer care with fewer call centers.

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

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    BingeOn looks like it has been a disaster for their network.

    If you think BingeOn hurt their network you're sorely mistaken. At least for now, BingeOn has resulted in an INCREASE in network speed and capacity. Reducing all video streams to 480p saves tons of bandwidth. Their rapid subscriber growth has had a big impact on network speeds. Sub growth has outpaced their network upgrades, resulting in reduced performance.

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

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    Sprint is not collapsing because of that silly recode article, but because of its weight of high yield debt.

    http://realmoney.thestreet.com/articles/01/20/2016/sprint-collapsing-under-weight-its-high-yield-debt

     

    For those that said Sprint didn't crash and burn in 2011, but they didn't have bonds that were due for payment that year. Now it's 2016 and the bill is due . the company is is terrible financial conditions at this moment, and that will handicap them while the others three keep going on cruise control.

    Re/code's article was definitely a contributing factor. There was a SA article published about the news that took it as fact, going so far as to say that Sprint had announced those plans.

     

    The rumor of network plans on top of bond maturities in 2016 and a bear market killed the stock.

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