CaptainSlow

With VZ and ATT adding over 1.25 million postpaid phones between the two of them and Tmob still having to report where do you think all these Sprint adds are going to come from?

... the old-fashioned way: more people coming in, less people walking out.

Series resistance.

With AT&T results coming below analysts' expectations, Verizon padding subscriber additions with tablet sales, and Legere saying port-ins from Sprint have reduced, I hope it means Sprint will finally break into positive subscriber growth even without using tablets as crutches.

Legere indicated as much in the GWS chat. He said port-in ratio from Sprint to T-Mobile had fallen from 4:1 to 3:1.

Well, that's a Mercedes so technically it's both a luxury car and RV in one.

Sprint is now #2 at Raleigh airport, losing to Verizon by a whisker and handily beating AT&T and T-Mobile.

In fact, Sprint's DL speed was more than AT&T and T-Mobile's combined!

 

Edit: link.

http://www.rootmetrics.com/us/rsr/rdu-airport/2014/2H

^^ I have no idea but would guess it's the former, at a minimum. Not sure about the later. Maybe someone more knowledgeable can comment.

If ~6,000 WiMax sites will be decommissioned as the article says, that leaves ~11,000 sites that Sprint will retain and convert to Network Vision. That's good news.

The Speedtest app uses the most data on your phone.

So Sprint moved to 2nd place in the latest Root Metrics report [emoji106].

First at O'Hare airport and second overall in the city is a great story for Sprint!

 

Meanwhile T-Mobile fell from #1 to #4.

At the rate of a few hundred thousand letters per year, it might take a while to get to all 55 million customers. [emoji1]

It's probably this.

 

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2012/08/sprint-customers-get-a-handwritten-thank-you-note/1#.VCf4g8vD8m8

 

 

In fact, it probably matters more to sprint, now that they are saddled with a continuing discount instead of a fixed device discount.

Discount will only continue as long the user has an iPhone, in which case the profit will continue as well.

Frankly, which device you use should largely be none of the carrier's business

That would be true if, like in Europe and Asia, service and devices were entirely decoupled. If Sprint is involved in subsidizing/financing/leasing the device, that are absolutely going to promote their more profitable products more than other products. (And here, product actually means product+service.)

 

Businesses routinely claim to "pass on their cost savings" to customers, and this isn't any different. With higher device resale value, lower network impact and higher spending customers, iPhones put more money into Sprint's pockets, so they are passing on some savings to customers. Whether it happens in the form of service discounts, device discount or a $240 Visa Gift Card hardly matters - it's just accounting jugglery at that point.

Please tell me you're not citing airline pricing, of all things, as a precedent of sanity in pricing models. [emoji32]

Lol, no, just saying that weirder pricing systems are somehow acceptable in other industries.

Airlines do it all the time too. The person sitting next to you may have paid anywhere between $50 less to $500 more than you, for the exact same service. His price may be further lowered simply because he booked with a particular branded credit card. Same with hotel rates.

Found a little surprise on my home tower!!!!!

 

I was going to joke about whether they installed the "8t8r" sign as well, but now that I think about it, that could be a cool, localized marketing campaign... make Sprint equipment or antennas visibly identifiable to the general public, throw in some signs highlighting a technical aspect of the new network, then hand a Sprint phone to folks on the street and interview them as they experience benefits of the highlighted technology.

 

Say, paint the antenna yellow, put on a banner/neon sign next to it that says "Sprint 8 Transmit 8 Receive Radio" or "Sprint HD Voice", etc. and interview folks as they tether a 4k video stream.

i have not! I should give that a try. Hell, I'd be happy with 10k lol.

 

 

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Be very concise with your email. The amount of time it takes him to read it might cost him more than the sum you ask him for!

 

He makes nearly $2000 every *second*. [emoji54]

T-Mobile also inherited ~6000 DAS sites from Metro PCS, which heavily relied on them in many metro areas. I don't think the other operators, at least Sprint and old T-Mobile, have anywhere close to that number of DASes.

I would consider the corporate jet fleet that Marcelo said he got rid of as a 'nice to have'.

For a data-driven future, I'd want to have owner's economics on the underlying pipes. Just recently I read about Sprint and Softbank being out there acquiring business customers in Japan to leverage Sprint's global Tier-1 backbone, something Softbank couldn't do on its own in the past.

Eh??

 

Sprint Seen Selling Long-Distance Network To Level 3

 

 

http://news.investors.com/091614-717576-level-3-possible-buyer-sprint-long-distance-network.htm?ven=yahoocp&src=aurlled&ven=yahoo

I have so many investments, I've lost track of them. Currently own about 80% of Sprint and 37% of Alibaba. Hope to make it big some day.[emoji5]

Reading the article, the Teir-1 carrier sounds like T-Mobile.

 

As for the non-Teir -1 carrier, I have no idea

Any reason why you think the Tier-1 carrier is T-Mobile and not Sprint, or one of the duopoly? The CEO mentioned a 9-figure valuation - that's at least a billion dollars. Wonder if T-Mobile would be willing to spend that much on acquisitions instead of on spectrum and rural LTE upgrades. Maybe just a controlling stake.

 

I'm more curious about the other telecom company, seeing how he didn't say "carrier". Who would see FreedomPop's business model as central to their growth? Tracfone?

I know this may not be the best thread to post this, but any guesses as to which Tier-1, and now non-Tier-1, carrier is pursuing FreedomPop?

 

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/freedompop-confirms-ma-talks-second-telecom-company/2014-09-12

Insightful interview.

 

http://www.cnet.com/news/t-mobile-ceo-on-passing-sprint-put-a-fork-in-it-theyre-done/

Funny that he's saying some of the same things about Sprint that people said about T-Mobile at the beginning of Uncarrier. Someone's starting to sound worried [emoji6].