[QUOTE=crazykyle16;44846574]No, please no.
We're switching from Sprint to T-Mobile after 18 years because they can't get their shit together in my area. Dropped calls with good to excellent signal, not receiving texts from specific people for a day or so at a time, and bad prices. Plus we get 15% off T-Mobile for working for the city.[/QUOTE]Took the words right out of my mouth. My family decided that sprint had fucked us over, so we were going to jump ship to T-mobile.
Just fucking NO!
[QUOTE=froztshock;44846577]Boy I can't wait 'till the next government mandated monopoly breakup![/QUOTE]
There seriously needs to be a breakup among the cable and phone companies because there's too much monopoly. Break everyone up so that there can be capitalistic competition with lower prices/better services.
And here I am still remembering Nokia.
I usually find myself the only guy who actually enjoys Sprint. I am bias and in special situation, as I am on my dad's business plan, and get to take any upgrade available in the company.
Which is all the time considering it is 25 accountants who think a physical keypad is the only way to live.
Our Sprint representative even emailed my Dad asking whose number consisted of over 85% of his companies data usage at one point.
Now ask me 5 years ago and I would have said they were awful, but the coverage is decent and I never been throttled or capped which is all I ask for.
I dunno, considering Sprint got bought by the Softbank CEO because he came to the US and found out that phone service here is fucking garbage, I'd be okay if Sprint merged with T-Mobile and brought Softbank levels of phone service to the US.
I mean last I remember they didn't really have very good reception or connection compared to NTT DoCoMo or au, but ~69 dollars/month for "Unlimited" (throttling past 7GB/month) 4G without being under any family plan/discounts seems to me like a way better deal than what you can get out of most US carriers.
So Sprint because you're so shitty, and cannot possibly beat your competition your only response is to buy them out instead of I don't know RETHINKING YOUR BUSINESS STRATEGY, and SPENDING MONEY ON INFRASTRUCTURE
[QUOTE=Flash;44852019]RETHINKING YOUR BUSINESS STRATEGY, and SPENDING MONEY ON INFRASTRUCTURE[/QUOTE]
This is exactly what they're doing.
So far their business strategy of spending money on building their own infrastructure isn't working. So now they've adopted a new business strategy of buying someone elses company to use THEIR infrastructure.
Sprint barely can meager out 10mbps out of their only LTE tower for 40 miles. T-Mobile gets around 35-50mbps depending on the time of day. Sprint's CDMA networks, radios and phone firmware are by far the worst constructed and buggiest things you will ever deal with.
Their phones don't even work on their stock roms and have constantly unstable data connections. Even with a Galaxy S4 which was most likely their best selling phone it would generally have the most issues possible just playing Pandora let alone trying to download a sizable file without it corrupting.
If T-Mobile were to buy out Sprint I would be 100% for it, Sprint has a ton of customers, licenses to a lot of bands and plenty of infrastructure. However Sprint as is, is basically a failing company unable to keep up with AT&T or Verizon. I can't imagine what horrible things Sprint would do to T-Mobile as they have hardly been able to handle themselves with all of the mergers that they have already done leaving Sprint as a disorganized chaotic mess.
[QUOTE=Tudd;44851307]I usually find myself the only guy who actually enjoys Sprint. I am bias and in special situation, as I am on my dad's business plan, and get to take any upgrade available in the company.
Which is all the time considering it is 25 accountants who think a physical keypad is the only way to live.
Our Sprint representative even emailed my Dad asking whose number consisted of over 85% of his companies data usage at one point.
Now ask me 5 years ago and I would have said they were awful, but the coverage is decent and I never been throttled or capped which is all I ask for.[/QUOTE]
You're not the only one. I have Sprints' service off contract, resold through Virgin Mobile, and it's fantastic, I love it. I have absolutely no complaints whatsoever. I get great signal everywhere I go around the Charlotte area (it's not like, a major city or anything, just kinda average), and I only pay $35/month for unlimited text and data. Sure I only get 300 minutes lol, but I mean who even talks on the phone anymore? Any time I ever receive a phone call it's from some old person with really nothing important or noteworthy to say. I don't think I've ever gone above 100 minutes each cycle. Could get unlimited talk for a few dollars more if I ever wanted it.
Now, that's my experience through VM, and like I said it's been awesome, but I couldn't tell you anything about dealing with Sprint itself as a company. I just use their infrastructure, and it works very well, but their prices and plans and customer service when you're buying straight from Sprint may suck ass compared to Boost/VM, I wouldn't have a clue. Doesn't matter to me so long as they keep selling access to VM to be resold to me at what appears to be a discounted price with no contract.
[QUOTE=Bloodshot12;44846615]There should be a law that prevents you from getting into business if you care too much about money[/QUOTE]
Woah, my joke was that bad, huh
[QUOTE=antair;44846679]The government will shut this down, it's literally no different from when AT&T tried to in 2011.
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_purchase_of_T-Mobile_USA_by_AT%26T[/url]
"Sprint Nextel also announced its opposition to the merger. Sprint said the deal would severely reduce competition in the United States cell phone industry."
Almost can't fucking believe it.[/QUOTE]
Government shutting down supposed monopolies really does fuck all in the big leagues either way. If one person can't buy the company they'll try to get another wealthy associate (private friend or distant family member, likely extended) to buy it using their own company, then work together off the record to control the market.
Happens all the time in smaller business and regularly in major. It's amazing the links you'll find between company heads/owners to others when you search hard enough.
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