Verizon-Alltel combo has implications for Sprint Nextel

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Did Sprint think that laying off people wouldn't impact their bottom line...You don't treat your employees poorly and then lay them off and expect it that to reflect well to customers...and the business world.

Hey he's an idea, let's hire Dan Hesse, what did he do...lay off more people...that sure works...

Sprint is now worth about half of what they were...they could have kept all their employees for a fraction of what they lost...they needed to shift employees to new projects like WIMAX and to build up customer care...make the employee part of the turn- around build up the morale. This would reflect to customer's as a company that cares, instead of a company that doesn't care (only about lining their pockets) for their employee and especially their customers.

You certainly don't treat your customers like crap...yes there are "dead beats" out there that don't pay their bills...but you shouldn't treat all customers like dead beats when they miss a payment or are late, especially since they have been paying all along. Nextel and/ or Sprint may not have had good customer service, but they completely trashed customer care once they merged. one of the biggest mistake they did was changing plans on Nextel customers. example customers that had unlimited in coming call plans were changed...one person I know received a $400 plus phone bill, when he called customer care he was told "didn't you see the notice that was in your previous bill (yea, the one printed in nano font that you need a microscope to read) that your rate plan changed" They told him that he had to pay it...he said, no I don't, sue me...he went over to another carrier. Then Sprint is puzzle that they are bleeding customers???

Then Sprint laid off thousands of employees, some that have been loyal employees since they started, but not first without treating them like second rate people because they are older employees and to add insult to injury after they were laid off...hire younger people, which of course they are paid less...

Then Sprint thinks everyone should think they are a good company and all is well and dandy...

Personally, The day Sprint Nextel goes out of business I will be dancing on their grave! Unfortunately the people that will really suffer will be the employees, I would certainly feel sorry for them. Sadly the all the big wigs will have their golden parachutes...

I would like to see Google buy Sprint and cut all narrow minded upper management and Executives

I can go on ranting, but I'll spare everyone

At least if they had bought ATT they would have gotten some decent engineers, instead of the project managers they got from Nextel.

Don't forget Sprint Broadband Direct, the almost MCI merger and Paranet which they drove into the ground. Problem is if you peel back the onion, Sprint pretty much still has the same bunch of VP's and Director's as before. They just play the famous Sprint musical chairs and take another position.

Imagine if Sprint would have bought ATT instead of Nextel. Although they probably would have destroyed that one as well

This wont make them #1 but it would help prevent them from being isolated at a distant 53 million customers. They both operate on a CDMA network. It would be seamless. They should then continue improving customer service, and working on WIMAX. This will eventually turn them in the right direction. Period. End of story.

Thats all I hear from the poor little Sprint drones. "why cant you report some thing good about us?, Why is it alway bad news?" Whaa Whaa Whaa. Maybe if Sprint did some thing good or even right for that matter, you would get good press. But because you are a bunch of trashy wanna be self proclaimed enginners, your product is second rate. The spin off of your grand "Xhom" is just more proof of the untalented work force employed by them. The only way Sprint will survive is if they bought a company with millions of customers and let that company run itself as it was before being bought, with out the intervention of Sprintanic. As soon as Sprintron tries to run anything...it always fails. What have they succeded on? ION (no) Nextel(NO) Wimax (NO) LD (NO)
Sprint Spectrum LP (NO) EarthLink (NO) and on and on and on the list goes.

"forcing subscribers to take this plan in order to get a mediocre Iphone "killer". "

You're mad that they're offering the same plan as every other carrier, but with data, and they're "forcing" you to buy a phone that you don't even want?

Maybe it's just me, but I'm pretty sure I could just say no if I didn't want the phone.

Um, yeah, that simply didn't make any sense.

Simply Everything is simply stupid and Sprint marketers spamming this board with positive spin is useless. Existing family plan subscribers have pointed out the plan is more costly while forcing subscribers to take this plan in order to get a mediocre Iphone "killer". This alienates the subscriber looking to port out anyway. Way to go! If Sprint products and services actually gave a perceived value in the brand, they wouldn't have to throw in "Everything" and the kitchen sink just to keep a customer. After the hype is over for Simply Everything is over, there won't be anything else to entice.

You are a "looser" too. It's LOSER you MORON.

"seams"?

What a bunch of loosers.

Yes, run along to your momma little one, for it seams you've been a bit overmatched today.

Oh well my little Sprint hacks, I will now make another grand exit. Have a good weekend, I am heading home. Leave me a voice mail or an e-mail, maybe i'll get back to you next week about your issues. My mom is probably wondering where I'm at, so I've really got to go this time.
Oh yeah and good job with Xohm, nothing like loosing 49% of it!!!

You only made your junk stock go down .16 cents today. You should be proud. You only have to go up $20.94 more to get it to where it should be. Good luck with that (sweetie).

quod erat demonstrandum. Again Nice try-

"If this is too hard for you to understand, you can just take a look at what the analyst have said, which is overwhelmingly positive."

The only reason the "analyst" have been positive about this is because Sprint wont be part of building it out. Just selling it.

If this is too hard for you to understand, you can try to ask one of you fellow wannabe's try to explain it to you.

Nice try though...

I would be surprised if you knew what QED means.

So, I guess you just can't tear yourself away from work? You make me laugh.

Oh well, I am leaving now (for real).

Talk to ya later sweetie.

You sound like the same BS artist Dan is. Get your boots on people it getting deep in here.
The pot is not bigger by any means. Sprint didnt know how to roll it out so they had to spin it off and now have to share the profits and get less back from it. With employees like you its no wonder this ship is sinking.
By the way did you mean GED??

I thought "engineer" boy was leaving over an hour ago? You might want to stop and pick up a dictionary on the way home. Look up loose and lose. :)

Technically, they're not "loosing" (he he) 49%. The pot is now much bigger with the money that the new players are putting in. So, they still own just as much, and they've reduced their risk by spreading it to the new guys. All around, a win-win for Sprint.

If this is too hard for you to understand, you can just take a look at what the analyst have said, which is overwhelmingly positive.

QED.

"It seems that Hesse may have learned a thing or two from the Great Deceiver, Mr. West"

Yeah we can tell by how well the stock is doing. Hows the "JUNK" status working for you????

Only a true Sprint employee would be proud to loose 49% of some thing....

"I know how to play the game here." The game has changed, my boy, and you will soon find that out. It's evident that you do not understand, since you don't realize that jettisoning the Xohm albatross was a good thing.

Sprint now has the option of going with LTE in the likely event that Wimax doesn't pan out. With additional suckers at the table, it will be a lot easier to pull out when the time comes. It seems that Hesse may have learned a thing or two from the Great Deceiver, Mr. West.

Ha
I doubt i'll get laid off. I know how to play the game here. I have no worries, I'll still have a job here the next few weeks. My post was mostly just pointing out that Sprint just dosent have the employee motivation or the employee skill to overcome verizon. With Dan a the helm it has just been worse around here. No raise half the bonus we used to get, there will be many more layoffs, Sprint will not improve from layoffs it needs much more than that. To bad Dan cant figure that out. Oh well my little Sprint hacks, have a good weekend, I am heading home. Leave me a voice mail or an e-mail, maybe i'll get back to you next week about your issues.
Oh yeah and good job with Xohm, nothing like loosing 49% of it!!!

I'm not sure why the article calls this a combination. Alltel will be gone, VZW will upgrade and turn it into pure VZW, with no trace of Alltel left. Sprint held Nextel out there like they were equal partners....that worked out for you when you could not integrate. With Sprint going down their own, lonely, 4G path...it's only a matter of time....Can you imagine what VZW is going to be like in a few years with all of this spectrum they have??? Hope they are taking applications. Oh yeah, you have Clearwire!! Woohoo!

Yeah, the 40% cut in directors and above is a good start. It should make it a lot harder for weasels like this to hide out in the company. There are still a lot more people who DESERVE to be canned.

I hear your office is like a morgue to work at. Don't worry, your wait will soon be over. There's a lot of dead wood, like yourself, that is being cut in the next couple of weeks.

“Some people are plumping for a Sprint combination with T-Mobile,”

Real nice, then Sprint can trash another company and send the rest of the customers to Verizon. Real good idea.

...Deutsche Telecom already owns a US telecom company, it's called T-Mobile. They operate a mobile network in eveyr US state, and they have a number of government agencies as customers. Stop the fearmongering and realize that globalization has already landed on our pristine US doorstep.

We should be thankful that the Germans still see value in US assets, when others are choosing to focus on higher growth emerging marketing in Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Regarding Sprint-T-Mobile merger i don't think it would be a great idea because Sprint just faced the issue of dealing with two different technologies when they merged with Nextel and paid the price. Merger just to bring the number of subscribers up may not be a good idea. What i do suggest that Sprint should focus on their current issues and try to resolve them efficiently and in timely manner so they can attract more customers from other carriers and retain what they have left with.

Hesse is a sharp guy and is doing the right things. Here's what one analyst says about their Simply Everything plan ...

Sprint's "Simply Everything" plan for $99.99 may be a step in this direction. All major U.S. wireless carriers have introduced similar plans this year, but Sprint's gives consumers the most bang for their buck with the types of services included.

The British own nearly half of Verizon, so a German takeover of Sprint would make AT&T the last American phone company. All our manufacturing is gone, and we all buy foreign cars, so why would we need more than a couple of choices for our mobile phones?

...is to remind all concerned that Sprint should have purchased Altell instead of Nextel.

Forsee's “subscriber envy” is what blinded him to the problems of Nextel and the stupidity of a merger.

I think this would be a huge mistake. This would combine 3 different networks. If you think customer service is bad now just imagine. Not to mention T-mobile is owned by the German government. How many people in this country think the German government need to own the largest wireless company in the US. Not to mention the FCC.