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You are the "bias". In case you didn't "get" it.

I was thinking the same thing. haha Reminds me of what Tim Cook said recently. "Don't listen to the trolls, and for God's sake do not be one."

I read the press release. There's no typo. Sprint only offers 6 months of free Tidal service. No discount after the trial period. They could have done better to retain customers on Tidal and Sprint.

I hope Sprint marketing is saying hifi is 50% off, which makes more sense. It's really stupid if they mistyped this.

This is a 18 month plan. Not really an expansion any time soon.

As far as I know, Tidal is still around. It's not a successful company thus far, but who to say that it will not be successful in 5 years from now. To say Sprint spent $200 million is a waste is not true as none of you can predict or know of Tidal potential. Low CAPEX or not, Sprint is not standing still, 3xCA was rolled out and VoLTE is around the corner. I do believe the hiccup with small cells roll out has made a dent in Sprint's CAPEX last year.

I hate calling people names....

"Operating income is expected to be between $2 billion to $2.5 billion in fiscal year 2017. We expect non-cash gains from spectrum swaps in fiscal year 2017 similar to the $350 million we recognized in fiscal year 2016. As you know we exclude this non-cash spectrum gain from our adjusted EBITDA, but it does still impact our reported operating income just as it did last year" source -- 1st Quarter call transcript. http://s21.q4cdn.com/487940486/files/doc_financials/transcripts/S-US-20170503-1941373-C.pdf

http://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/verizon-sprint-at-t-detail-spectrum-exchanges-covering-pcs-aws-licenses Very nice! I think Tarek said these swaps will net Sprint a couple hundred millions as they had done/received the previous year.

I have a sprint line in Boston with a family member. Like I said, keep on ranting...

Let's just say your experience does not come to anything i have experience with Sprint. I have been in Kansas and Chicago, definitely had great service there. Definitely dont know what you talking about, Willis! Last yime i was in Boston, speeds were usable, except in brick buildings. Anyways, keep on ranting...

I heard this during the webcast yesterday and was wondering..who could the cable company be? http://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/sprint-confirms-trial-small-cells-cable-company

ATT might after failing to get straight path.

Someone from Sprint must have done something to his family. It's like a personal vendetta with Sprint at everything he writes.

Good sign. This shows they are in a good position financially. This also makes me believe they could have positive net income this quarter.

Unless anyone has the fiber muscles of Verizon, ATT, or cable providers, everyone will need a lot of fiber build out for 5G. Sprint can use spectrum as backhaul for now, but eventually fiber build out will be needed. Softbank is toying with providing satellite backhaul with their investments. I don't know how will this work or how feasible this is, but fiber backhaul is the reason why many people think a merge with a wireline service (cable) is inevitable.

Yep...I was thinking about AT&T 2.1 mhz for a sec.

So this not a sprint tower based on the spectrum noted? ATT??

The bonus has no impact on Sprint's cash or any of its numbers. It's all stock options for Claure and the Chiefs. Claure could still get a salary increase though later this year. We will see. His base salary compensation is the lowest out of the big 4.

haha I didn't think the stock would sink this much...but I don't feel too bad for Marcelo. He bought like $25 million of the stock at $5 when he first joined Sprint, it's still already 50% higher.

huh...why would you pick the BEST place to test a technology to help you see how much improvement can be made? I would think it's the opposite, but that's just me.

The idea of the magic box is pretty cool. Sprint is having a hard time erecting small cells to densify the network. Why not just give everyone one! 100 meters of outdoor coverage is a length of a soccer field from this small hardware. I got my pre-order in. Hopefully, I will get one.

I am going to get one too.

Tmo can market anything they want. It's how Sprint responds to this or even needs to respond to this on their postpaid side. If a customer is leaving for prepaid, they are not meant to be postpaid customers (low quality - for a lack of a better word) to begin with. Sprint has responded by using Boost to attack MetroPCS. Also, Tmo prepaid's growth has declined dramatically this quarter compared to last year. It's a telling story that Metro's prepaid strategy is not working on Sprint. The icing on the cake could be next week, if Sprint is positive on prepaid then I would call Tmo's strategy a bust.

Yea. It sounds like it.