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I would challenge what was written about the availability of the Airaves. I was unable to receive one and was told that I was in as good coverage area when I clearly was not. The Airave ended up being a bandaid. It had a potential for a wide scale femtocell rollout but was never realized. You also can't accuse AJ with being hypercritical without acknowledging that he actually had something positive to say about T-Mobile in his original post. In fact, he has often made positive remarks about T-mo along with well reason criticism.Seems folks just pay attention to the negative.

There has to be a downside and you found it. For all of the resale value magic that Claure brings to the table the margins on this plan are probably very low. Sprint can't afford to merely break even on a customer leaving this plan. You want no money down and a new iphone every two years then stick with this plan and you make a killing. Leave before the term is up and Sprint makes a killing. As long as everything is clear and upfront I don't have a problem with the terms.

I suspect that any international plan will be spearheaded by Softbank.

Wouldn't that be wiches? I try to stay away from wiches. Especially wicked ones from the west.

Only if you are paying full price. Anything that resets the subsidy period(upgrade) or extends/resets the contract should require the account owners permission.

Centurylink must dislike its Southeast territory. Even Prism has had a very slow roll out in the south east compared to the rest of CL's service areas.

You have to make it interesting like FBI surveillance van52 or FBI/DHS/DEA/IRS Van

I want termite town. !

There is always going to be cross shopping. That is just the nature of the beast. But Legere put a huge public bullseye on Sprint which I think was a huge mistake. Sprint in turn is now going after T-Mo in a much less public way. In my perfect world T-Mo would have gone after AT&T and Sprint would have gone after Verizon and/or AT&T.

Sprint has had Huawei handsets in the past. Not sure what happened.

You are right. That should primarily be Sony's responsibility. Although we have no idea what was in the deal that Softbank and Sony reached. I think its pretty significant that Verizon is not getting this phone (at least in the short run).

That's why I put it in quotes. You cant tell me that Big Red and the Death Star have not colluded. They just don't put it down on paper.

I also would like to take this opportunity to say that I love my M8 but why could they not have done this 6 months ago!!! AAARRRRGGGGHHHHH! That is all.

Or if management is not confident in its ability to turn it around you still may be able to secure on favorable terms. I have to believe that either Big Red or the deathstar are looking into expanding to latin america. Some of the worlds biggest billionaires have been spawned from latin american telecommunications. Lots of money to be made.

Remember, this a formula that has worked before. You can only get X phone on our network. They just need to put some marketing dollars behind the Sony.

I think Legere made a tactical mistake in going after Sprint. In fact Sprint and T-Mo should have had a "no compete" agreement and gone after Verizon and AT&T either together or separate. Unfortunately, Legere favors style over substance.

Thats a bit of cherry picking. Verizon added tablet customers which offset the handset loss and gave them positive growth in overall subscribers. Also, Verizon has such a healthy profit margin that they can afford to lose a few customers. What becomes paramount for them is to maintain the profit margin that they have.

I'm guessing they will get around to it. Either they have sold more tri band s4 vs single band s4's or they simply value the spark enabled version over the single band. Makes sense if you think about it.

Thats your opinion.

Depends on the price.

No personal exposure. Softbank owns the percentage of Alibaba, not Son. Also Sprint is not currently in need of propping up. However it might need some help completing its network build out. In either case its nice to have the choice between using your own money and financing versus being forced to finance.

I cant comment on the phones(freedompops website is a mess) but I had to buy my Hotspot outright. Besides, with less than 1 million customers if deposits have to be refunded it would end up being a drop in the bucket. I'm sure it would be factored in with what Sprint (or any other suitor) feels freedom pop is worth. In any case, if the price is right Sprint should not allow another company to buy freedompop.

Negative. These are contract free plans. Sprint can change them if they want if they buy freedompop.

The problem is if somebody else buys freedom pop then Sprint potentially looses a MVNO that pays them money.

This only makes sense if they are trying to keep freedom pop out of somebody else's hands and if they roll freedom pop, virgin and boost into one unit.