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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!

Aw man... Hate hearing stuff like this.

iPhone Forever got an overhaul: Link: http://www.sprint.com/landings/iphone-forever/index_p.html 18 Month Lease Term is the only option. Now requires making 12 payments to upgrade. You can accelerate your payments to upgrade sooner. For Current Customers: If you joined iPhone Forever before 1/8/16, you can upgrade to a new iPhone whenever it's released.

Nowhere in writing. But we do know that the iPhone Forever Trade-In Credit Offer is ending... so something else will have to replace that.

Apparently, a whole bunch of changes and promos are set for tomorrow morning: For now, Sprint has finally confirmed that it will no longer offer a subsidized purchase option on handsets for New Customers, effective January 8th. End of an era.

Some good discussion about the 600MHz auction... Tarek reaffirmed that Sprint isn't going to participate.

1739 initiatives for cost take out that they monitor everyday.... That's a lot...

Nothing too specific. He was glad that people didn't see activity because Sprint has been trying to do this under the radar for the most part. He's basically said that the Engineering Team is working flat out and that a lot has been accomplished through software upgrades, which are cheap and done in clusters overnight. He said Sprint didn't have to spend a lot of money to accomplish a lot. He also said that Mobile Leasing Co. (Handset) will do multiple transactions per year to ensure additional funding as necessary. What's coming next is "Network Lease Co" apparently... in a few months.

Who knew... Fabian Cortez is a Mutant Supervillain.

From the Livestream: "Network Lease Co".... coming "soon"... when pressed, Tarek said a "few months"....

LOL. It sure does... But combined with "Dancing in the street"....

There you go... Rocking out to that groovy hold music myself...

I don't think it'll be any different than Sprint's usual hosted Earnings Calls with analysts on the phone asking questions. Lots of info seemed to come from the session with T-Mobile yesterday: Reddit Link

It'll be interesting to hear what Tarek says today.

It seems that Sprint's investment in the DAS there was well worth it.

According to this Newsroom Article, it seems it's been successful:

CES 2016: BlackBerry PRIV Coming to Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon How about that...

Perhaps the CFO will comment on this tomorrow?

So what's the variance between and FCC certified lab and their internal testing Lab? Sprint does similar kinds of testing as part of the certification process. Just want to understand this process better.

Interesting. Why doesn't Samsung do its own testing? How about HTC? Does it do its testing in-house or contract out? The HTC M9 as I recall has horrid real-world RF Performance... and they just shipped it anyway?