Comments on: T-Mobile Looking To Buy Sprint In Bid To Become Nations 2nd Largest Carrier

By: billy jean

billy jean — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:14:09 +0000

With Sprint’s woes, its a good possibility Sprint is worth less than the technology of WiMax… And why would you license a critical technology? So Sprint can up the fees every year bc you “have” to keep buying to keep your users with the technology they originally bought. WiMax isn’t like Adobe.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:04:20 +0000

wow that is great 2 shit companies merging… sorry but when you put shit on top of shit it is still shit !!! lol would be a stupid ove. If DT wants Wimax just by the license to the technology !!!

By: billy jean

billy jean — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:13:15 +0000

GP – don’t you think running 3 technologies and the time table to convert to WiMax or LTE would be part of the due diligence done prior to an offer? Isn’t there the possibility that DT feels WiMax is the future and they are buying Sprint to gain the technology to rthen use their capital (which is 100 times better than Sprint) to implement WiMax to the maxes?

I think it would be an interesting move. So many people have great things to say about Tmo outside of their network. With WiMax or a mobile phone that goes between gsm and cdma would solve those problems…

By: GP

GP — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:03:40 +0000

It will never happen, who in their right mind wants to maintain 3 completley different networks. WiMax is going to happen, its too fast for it not to, how would DT fit into that model?

By: billy jean

billy jean — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:31:08 +0000

You could say the same for Vzw when compared to ATT and Tmo, but Vzw is as stable a company as both ATT and Tmo.

The problem here is the integration of the networks. Just like when Sprint bought Nextel, everything was separated. As a consumer, you’d have to see the signs to even know the companies merged.

It could be interesting if they can put out a group of world phones like Vzw. The knocks on Sprint are coverage sucks and customer service is terrible. Hopefully Tmo fires every Sprint CS rep and keeps their own and can integrate the networks into something that resembles ATT network. For the price and CS from Tmo, they’d get a chunk of market share.

By: pxd814

pxd814 — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:35:31 +0000

If T-Mobile does this, the will inherit a problem that Sprint Nextel already has. They will get new phones 6 months to a year later than everybody else.