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Maybe he was let go in preparation for other device initiatives... "Android Forever" has been waiting in the Wings Forever.

I wonder what the rift here was with him being let go.... Could this be it? What kind of new thinking was Marcelo, etc. looking for?

Yup. Go here: http://www.apple.com/shop/browse/reuse_and_recycle Under "Get a gift card online", select the applicable link. The iPhone, smartphone and iPad links take you to a Brightstar page: i.e.: iPhone: https://reuserecycle.abbti.brightstarcorp.com/Iphonehome.aspx

SoftBank acquired Brightstar when it brought Marcelo on as CEO of Sprint. Brightstar does provide an incredible advantage for Sprint, as well as cash flow for SoftBank as the parent company. Among other things, Brightstar runs Apple's buyback program around the world.

No it won't.

What do you mean?

Sprint Shake-Ups Continue as Product Head Leaves David Owens, Senior VP of Product for the last 3 years and a 25+ Year Sprint Veteran has been replaced. According to the Article, he was in charge of product strategy, device selection, engineering and relationships with handset makers, among other duties. His last day will be Jan. 29. Sounds like Sprint made the decision per the Internal Memo cited.

Great buying opportunity if you believe in the future of the company and trust Marcelo and team. I do.

I disagree. Sprint has much more competent executives running this build now. Between John Saw and Günther Ottendorfer, and combined with Masa's and Marcelo's oversight, Sprint will handle the NGN project much better than Network Vision. I think this is all a bunch of FUD, honestly.

Agreed. Seems like Sprint went in big on these improvements in the region. Anybody here going to the Game or going to be in the area?

Sprint Tackles the Big Game By Eamon O’Leary, Regional Network Vice President, Sprint Great blog post about Sprint's network improvements for The Big Game on February 7th. Nice to see that Sprint worked to get Carrier Aggregation deployed on the stadium DAS as well as on many sites in the region. Some other interesting info about DAS deployments in the area as well: SFO Airport, OAK Airport, Moscone Center, Stanford Stadium. Thoughts?

Some more personnel announcements for "One Sprint": Conrad Hunter Joins Sprint as President, New England Region Greg Post Joins Sprint as President, Mountain and Southwest Region Glen Flowers Joins Sprint as President, Michigan, Kentucky and Indiana Region Jim Mills Joins Sprint as President, Illinois and Wisconsin Region (replaces Tracy Nolan, the first regional president of this market who tested this concept. She will become senior vice president of sales for the office of the CEO.)

As part of its One Sprint strategy: Sprint announced Karen Paletta as the new President for New York and Philly Tri-State Region

Wondering at what point Charlie Ergen over at Dish Network will give Marcelo a call...

Unlimited Data on a Tablet for $40/month or 1 GB for $10/month.... Didn't see that coming... Of course, the last time AT&T offered Unlimited Data on a Tablet, it was on the original iPad... and it pulled it shortly after one month.

So how will Sprint react to this? It previously offered 1 Year of free service to DirecTV customers. Shortly afterwards, it added more data options for those customers.

The saga of Unlimited Data on AT&T is remarkable. AT&T offered Unlimited Data for $30/month on the iPhone. It then stopped offering it, and replaced it with tiered data plans. Then it decided to throttle the top 5% of Unlimited Data users. Then those Unlimited Data users started being throttled at usage levels even lower than the tiered data plans because the top 5% was causing a data "shrinkage" every month no matter how much the "top usage" was. So AT&T then made it a 3GB throttle cap for 3G devices and 5GB throttle cap for 4G/LTE devices irrespective of whether or not the network was actually congested: Speeds were throttled to Edge/3G speeds. Then AT&T starting offering "Double Data" promotions on its shared plans where people on a 15 GB plan would get 30 GB, 30 GB would get 60 GB, 50 GB would get 100 GB, etc. for the same price as long as they stayed on it... and this showed that congestion based on Unlimited Plan usage alone was a total farce. People kept dropping their throttled AT&T Unlimited Plans, either to switch to other carriers, or to stay with AT&T, but on a "Mobile Share" plan. Then AT&T finally got investigated and fined by the FCC for throttling on Unlimited Plans, but hardly anyone was still on one anymore. Then AT&T made the throttling threshold 22 GB for those remaining handful of customers still on the plan and said it would reduce speeds for those customers using over 22 GB/month only in areas of congestion. Also, the price is increasing by $5/month in February. As for Tablets, AT&T offered its "no contract" Unlimited Data Plan for the iPad which you could turn off and on as needed. It was sold as a "breakthrough deal" by Apple/AT&T... and AT&T pulled it barely one month after the device shipped to customers, replacing it with tiered plans before many people even received their devices. So the only way to keep the Unlimited plan was to never actually cancel it. These Unlimited Data iPad SIM Cards went for thousands of dollars on eBay. Now it's offering Unlimited Data for new/existing customers who also sign up for DirecTV, and per this re/code article, you can stay on the plan even after AT&T stops offering it. Just remember whom you're making a deal with...

Have those national results been posted yet?

I don't think Global Roaming was meant for extended deployments. However, Sprint has a pretty good Unlocking Policy for Military Personnel.

Interesting article on the timing of and notification requirements for Sprint's upcoming layoffs: When are the Sprint layoffs coming?

Sprint Posted a couple new videos on its Yellow Fan Studios YouTube Channel: and The Harrison Wiley Show with Güenther Ottendorfer I found it quite entertaining actually. "LTE Plus vs. 5G" actually came up. An improvement over the "Talking Hamster" for Framily if you ask me...

Some good additional background here: As Sprint’s cost cutting rolls along, a T-Mobile merger is ‘not in the cards’

When this happens, it shows the attachment requirement and incentive program needs a revamp. The store rep would rather get his "metrics" for attachment than an actual sale...

SoftBank definitely gave Sprint much more leverage and resources to set up these new International Roaming agreements (Numbers more than 110 countries at this point per the Announcement). Sprint is inching closer and closer to T-Mobile which states it has 140+ countries covered. Good stuff Sprint!

Just posted: Sprint Adds 36 Countries and Destinations to Sprint Open World and Sprint Global Roaming Some good country adds on there!