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It is an estimate based on the statement john saw has made on deploying massive mimo on "thousands" of sites and him not saying "10s of thousands". I think it is reasonable to assume that means around 10000 given how the company is known for making exaggerated statements on it's network investments.i think you are wrong on the brand issue but even of it was slightly better that T-Mobile at it worse, how much debt did t-mobile have when it started it's network investment and rebranding campaign? Far, far less that Sprint, where is their degrading money going to come from? Sprint has two roads to walk down, the cheap city carrier like what cricket and metro use to be or the merger. The merger gives us a killer 5g network that is truly nationa wide. I vote for that.

Sprint's brand isnt good. It is far, far behind every carrier. The can brand about being most improved but when you start negative and people view you slightly less negative that doesnt make your brand good. I know massive mimo isn't cheap and sprint doesnt have the resources to deploy it properly. That is my argument. The merger has to happen if we are going to have at least one carrier that will deploy 5g on what any reasonable person would understand to be a national level.

Volte will not work in my market at all. You lose LTE signal about 10-15 percent of the time outside and 30-40 percent inside and I live in the 6th largest metro area in the US. This goes far beyond any issues others had with VoLTE.

I dont think so. It is onky being deployee in urban cores. Not even suburbs are getting 5 g love by enlarge. If they were serious about building a 5g network 75 percent of their towers would be palmed for massive Mimo upgrades, as it is it is closer to a quarter. You anti merger people live in a fantasy world if you think sprint will be anything more than a metro or cricket circa 2013 if the merger doesnt go through. P.s.. There brand is still trash compared to even T mobile worst year. And T-Mobile recovered after billions and years of rebranding. Where are those billions going to come for sprint?

It also doesnt give them the resources to build out a 5g network properly, restore their brands or come up with a market place niche. I was asking back in 2014 why would someone buy sprint amd cam only come up with price. That is still the case. How is VoLTE going to work on their network across most markets? There is a reason people have to opt. Into it.

Yes. One city doesnt make a competitive nation wide network.

Wasn't he CEO in 2016?

Mike Lee is very libertarian when it comes to economics. I would have been surprised if he didn't weight in positively.

No one has any intension of pumping 20 billion into sprint because they won't get a return on their money. I am 95 percent confident of that. Obviously I objected to the part of your statement the "100 percent" was refering to as i called that out.

What do you base this on? What market research? I'll bet zero. Nothing is 100 percent in business or in life.

That is the NY post. A much more reliable source than the washington post. Lol.

Was the New CFO an AI program? He certainly sounded like it.

Not really, how hard is it to changes some signage after the merger?

Not according to their stated plans. Part of the sale to regulators is a rural build out. If they don't do that, I would imagine they would run into problems with regulators.

This exactly. If the merger goes through t-mobile has committed to giving sprint customers the same plans or better ones and both customer bases get a better network. Why would you leave? Seems like a stupid move.

Because you simply have to plug it in to a power outlet near a window.

Except for a soft hand off to thw macro network. It can't do that, but other than that, there exactly the same.

You know it is funny, i think anyone that has wrote an MSM article about sprint actually uses Sprint.

It doesnt matter who's fault it is, sprint, more specifically Marcelo, made a commitment and failed to delivery onve again.

Another failure of execution I guess. Anyone who thinks sprint can survive as an independent company should look to it track record.

Has anyone experienced T mobile roaming yet? I think we are past the 60 day mark now.

This is only true is sprint wants to be a leap wireless of 5g. Unfortunately, that will leave us with two national players and two leaps. That woukd be an awful market. Sprint and T mobile are not competitive on their own. I admired what t mobile was able to do, but it lacks a road map to 5g with out sprint and sprint lacks the resources with out T mobile. The 4 national carrier market is a fantasy and the market keeps telling us this. It is 2 national carriers and 2 leap/metro type carriers or 3 national carriers in the 5g world. I think three national carriers is a better rout and so does the market.

It is easy, because investing in sprint as a stand alone player in 2013 didnt make any sense. Masa said as much, he said that if AT&T had bought tmobile he wouldnt have invested in Sprint. Sprint would have been more attractive as a stand alone player covering the low in market under a market where they only had to compete with AT&T and Verizon. He wanted to get the market to three equal players and reap the rewards of creating that third player, there was no other oppertunity in the US wireless market. They spent the last 5 years proving that. We are getting to three players, one way or the other. The good news is, that if their is a market opportunity created by only having three players dish is out there still.

Sprint could spend 7 billion a year for the next 5 years and their is no guarantee or even likelihood of them catching up to or surpassing the big two becauee they will be spending 10 billion a year. A dollar of CAPEX is a dollar of capex and sprint doesnt have access to any better engineers than anyone else. Even if their network improved on their foot print to become substantially better than their competition they would still have to compete on price because their foot print wouls be substantially smaller that everyone else's. Sprint, as a stand alone company, will go the way of leap wireless.

Hopefully they don't attempt to chew gun, that would likely end badly.