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    Galaxy Nexus pushed back to April 22?

    in General Topics

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    Is it possible that Sprint will still release the GNex on the 15th, but it won't see authorized resellers until a week later? Sprint may want to drive sales at their corporate stores. This is a memo for Sams Club...

     

    I agree, Good indicator that it's at least ready to debut and Sam's Club will get it later in the week.

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    HTC Edge/Endeavor/One X

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    Although the OEM's have all said they will be reducing model lines, we have yet to see it come to fruition and HTC has always done things differently. The changes to the EVO One especially the kickstand may be just changing the battery case which would be a negligible difference in manufacturing and it may be just for this particular phone. I don't know if adding a SD card slot would be a bid factor, HTC has to make a space for a SIM card for the GSM carriers, that space could by use for the memory card.

     

    HTC has always had the rep of making a phone to the carriers needs, while Moto and Samsung will probably hold the line. We'll have to see how much their promise to limit their model lines will reign them in.

    AT&T launching loyalty program.

    in General Topics

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    You folks gotta quit pinning Sprint's motivation on greed. Sprint is trying to survive. They are not in the position to be greedy even if they wanted to be.

     

     

    Sprint Debt to Equity = 1.77

    Verizon Debt to Equity = 0.64

    AT&T Debt to Equity = 0.61

     

    Sprint Operating Margin = 0.64%

    Verizon Operating Margin = 16.99%

    AT&T Operating Margin = 12.87%

     

    Sprint EBITDA = 5.07B

    Verizon EBITDA = 35.33B

    AT&T EBITDA = 34.69B

     

    With the iPhone, Sprint feels it is near product parity with the other carriers. With unlimited data, Sprint feels it has a competitive advantage. Without upgrading its network, Sprint feels that it is at a competitive disadvantage. I think Sprint is right.

     

    If Sprint does not have a decent network by the end of 2013 I believe it will be facing bankruptcy reorganization. (However, I have never made money on the market so what do I know?).

     

    Personally, I would like to see S4GRU be a place where we talk about wireless technology progress (with a focus on Sprint as we have a vested interest) rather than where we opine on the other executive decisions it makes.

     

    I don't disagree about Sprints financial situation, My concern is how it applies it's limited resources to attract and/or maintain customers. I'll use some lose figures as an example. It may take Sprint $500 to attract a new customer via promo's, advertising, education, time spent w/reps, etc while to keep a current customer it may only need to spend $25-100 by throwing a renewal incentive such as eliminating or reducing activation fee's or as I mentioned before and cheap GC or something else.

     

    Sprint doesn't have to give the farm away as in the past, but a little something goes a long way with most consumers. Some have even commented on this site about how cheap Sprint could keep them. Most of us on this site don't cost Sprint money to renew, we do our research and usually find the best deals without using Sprint resources as a new customer would. This is what concerns me about Sprint's "take it of leave it" attitude.

    AT&T launching loyalty program.

    in General Topics

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    Good idea. Even a $5 GC would be a bone. Keeping customers is so much easier & cheaper than trying to get new ones. I marvel at how Sprint is wiling to let long and good standing customers walk away. I wonder if Sprint is drawing so many people and raking in the cash with the iPhone that it feels these are acceptable losses.

    How long do you think thay Sprint will stay CDMA?

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

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    I am curious what Sprint will do with the PTT customers after CDMA is shut down. Even if they convert the Nextel customers using iDEN to Sprint Direct Connect using CDMA/EVDO and we are speculating that sometime in 2015/2016 is when CDMA will shut down, what will the folks that depend on the PTT feature use?

     

    Will voLTE replace PTT and provide that instant connectivity that current Nextel and Sprint Direct Connect are used to? I am hoping that this is already discussed because 2015 doesn't seem too far away from now.

     

    Sprint needs to rely on 1x Advanced for as long as it can for voice given its tight spectrum holdings since it is about 2x more efficient than voLTE.

     

    Sprint doesn't seem to concerned about PTT of moving them to SDC. I've been snooping trying to find any significant marketing for transition but Sprint must be handling it on an account by account basis. There news releases seem to indicate that's the path their taken.

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