Chief fuels talks of Deutsche Telekom takeover of Sprint Nextel

If a real hybrid GSM/CDMA (both with American frequencies) phone with QChat capability could be made, this might make things work a bit easier for the "new" T-Mobile, if the merger occurs. Is this out of the realm of possibility? Would a phone like this be realistic? I wonder...

 

something like this should wait until the whole CDMA network us Rev A capable and QChat is online and fully operational......then a deadline should be set for iDEN shut down.......because with the rebanding the capacity of the towers has been going down.....i see it here in Reading every day.....people trying to get Direct Connect calls through and they wont go.......even calls that get dropped in perfectly good coverage.....no.......if we can get as far as a migration deadline then T-Mobile could buy Sprint......and the fact that Sprint and Clearwire have spun-off their WiMax ventures into a separate company (or will eventually) makes it an easier merger for T-Mobile but they will still get the revenue.....

our only problem is that we've seen how easy it is to merge and then try to run two separate technologies on the same company......will T-Mobile do a beter job at it???

 

It all comes down to management. Sprint's management made more mistakes than they made successful decisions. This has been their undoing.

I believe DT could do it. They've managed to make T-Mobile very successful here. Granted this would be an entirely different scenario than that, but with carefully planned and executed decisions, it could work. Though they really would have their work cut out for them.

 

That's correct. Sprint had no merging experience when they decided to jump on the most complex merger in the US, which is partly why they've failed. T-Mobile has some merging experience, but to takeover Sprint would be so much more complex that even for AT&T would be messy if they tried it. The only thing DT is thinking here is the $$$ numbers, and that's they only reason they are considering this possibility. I hope they really think of the consequences of this move and if they are capable of pulling it off. But my real hope is that if they decide to go for it, the feds deny it!

 

yeah.....it would be nice for m2M but it would kill competition

 

Yeah but remember that Sprint also made Sprint very sucessful until they bought Nextel. Sprint led the industry in subscriber growth for 14 consecutive quarters at one stretch in the late 90's early 2000's.

 

Sprint was small and unpopular......very tru and they grew but Nextel was more of a cancer than anything

 

Nextel was starting to disintegrate right before the merger (outdated technology, Boost Mobile oversold, etc) and I believe might have even covered that up a little so that they would be more appealing for someone like Sprint to want to buy. Sprint had no way of knowing how bad of shape they were headed for. Add to that a number of mistakes made along the way during the merger integration and that's why they are suffering today.

 

Main Problem with Sprint was lack of Synergy.
Once the merger was announced Sprint needed to work with Motorola and build a tri-band phone (I don't think Motorola has or will do one now.) That way you can use either the PCS network or SMR network along with Cellular/PCS/SMR roaming if needed. If a phone like that came out about a few months after the merger, this would have helped retain many customers. I think Qchat has came a day late and a buck short for Sprint.
I don't know any wireless tower engineers, so I can't comment on getting PCS/SMR equipment on same towers made more problems for Sprint or not.

What I do know is that If T-Mobile does buy Sprint they better have iPCS under control. If they don't come to some agreement with T-Mobile, iPCS will probably file a lawsuit the day after the merger against T-Mobile and Iowa Wireless since they have networks in iPCS markets and iPCS exclusive rights in their franchised territory. Parts of the SMR (Nextel) network may have to be sold in Illinois because of iPCS contact with Sprint. issed:


As of May 12th iPCS sues Sprint again. :deadhorse And this time for Clearwire deal.


Well here is my :twocents: on the subject.

 

I hear you, larry. I'm not knocking Sprint in the least, specifically their past performance. It's just the mess that was made following the Nextel purchase. It seemed like all of the good decision making they had in the past, flew out the window. Since then, very little has gone right (or at least it seems that way on the outside).

True, DT could make a mess of things too, but considering the fact that they're a much larger company than Sprint, maybe they can succeed where Sprint didn't. Who knows really.

I'm sure DT is well aware of Sprint's troubles and how not to repeat the scenario if they make a play for them. I am giving DT the benefit of the doubt and I base this on their continued successful performance. It's just my opinion, though...

I wouldn't be surprised if this is the case too...I'm sure Nextel execs were well aware of the sinking ship they were running.

 

so here is a related question...If DT takes over sprint...does that mean that Tmobile inherits the sponsorship for NASCAR?...If so then that (coming from a NASCAR Fan and tmobile employee) would be the coolest to me. I would love to see Dale Jr. winning the tmobile cup......man I think that's a piece of heaven right there!

 

Actually, it would be better for Virgin Mobile to sponsor NASCAR, that way the racers would aim to win the Virgin Cup...

 

maybe a cup of virgins..but that is way OT...lol but thanks for the reply

 

so why doesnt sprint just buy out iPCS.....what's stopping them?

 

I always assumed that the people running iPCS were more interested in lining their own pockets. If they sell then they are out of a job. It has never seemed to be a real well run company and Sprint's image in Michigan has suffered because of them.

 

i dont know.....it just seems dd that all the have is complaints when Sprint is just trying to make things better........iPCS sucks from the way people make it sound.....its not up to standard.....and everythign around it is evolving while it sits there......make it simple......shut down Nextel in their area.......dont roll out WiMax there......and just let them sit

 

The contract Nextel signed with NASCAR allowed for one name change during the 10 (?) year contract, and they've already used it. So I don't know what would happen.

 

The Sprint / Nextel merger was such a disaster... If they do buy them out then hopefully DT/Sprint can learn from their mistakes from the last merger.

 

Noone can set here and say what will happen just because sprint and nextel didnt work out. Maybe this could be a good thing

 

the probabilities of it being good or easy are extremely low.....i mean like at the situation.....something like that would be hopeless and even if it did work it would tak A LOT of work