Sprint biggest looser to Verizon & AT&T in Mobile wars

Interesting that even with the iPhone AT&T is unable to attain a higher ARPU than Verizon and a higher retail net addition. Sprint needs to get on the ball, though, and they slowly seem to be progressing, which is good.

 

Not here,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

LOL, and you just got to experience this again first hand.

Honestly,though the online ESN changer and moving CS to the States are great first moves.

 

Um yeah I have ensemble and no where do I see an online esn changer

 

Are you serious?! I thought the ESN changes was supposed to happen with Ensemble.

 

It could be there be I am not seeing it.

 

Talk to your local dealer. Mine says she can get me back on my old 5mb $9.99 plan if I wanted, but now that I have the Tilt I think my data is going to go up.

-Jay

 

Not here either.

 

I can't see it either.

 

Sprint is a great Carrier with a Good network (corporate network that is) but have a crappy rap from affliate companies and a aweful add campaign.

They need to show hikers up on a mountain with a generator, TV, XBox and a EV-DO aircard playing Halo 3 online. 1 to show coverage and 2 to display speed of the network.

The current adds seem crusty and geared toward traveling businessmen at a rave party and waving around a glow stick. Just kidding but they need a new add campaign.

 

Sprint's situation is not really about affiliates but more about failure to market their service properly, customer service problems, IDEN problems and lack of cool and trendy new phones. Some of the problems are also based more on perception than reality. Some of the the bad press is deserved and some is not. They've started to turn things around and I already see improvements happening all over the place. However I don't think it's going to do much good because of the perception issues. Many people have already made up their minds no matter how good Sprint can become and that's too bad.

 

They have had a few cool phones (blackberry world addition, fusiq, katana etc) but dont really shove them down your throat like a Moto V3, Iphone, Chocolate etc.

I know your a Sprint diehard so no offense but I wonder if they changed the name of the company if it would help. Kinda similar to Ford dropping the 500 and calling what it is, a Taurus.

HMMM if the Ford 500 is a Taurus then the Chevy Kobalt would be a Cavalier? I think I should apply to Jeopardy.

I would rather Sprint changes its name then the actually company itself disappear.

Synergy wireless services maybee.

 

Yeah, but Ford is dropping the 500 and calling it a Taurus again...


-Jay

 

I know thats were I got the idea from lol

 

Yes they did have a few good phones but didn't know how to market them properly.

Also yes I hate to say it but I think I agree. Maybe they should change the name. That might be the only way to smooth things over. I doubt that will ever happen but it's still an idea.

 

Sprint simply fails to realize that they must invest money in their network first and foremost. They have been working very diligently towards a very "powerful" data network... Which they have, more or less. However, the improvement of their voice network is lacking. Phoenix is still a very large growing city, (even after the housing bubble burst...) and Sprint has failed to anticipate the growth. As a result, there are *many* new areas that simply do not have coverage. Alltel is about the only option for those people as they have the best geographic coverage...

As a long time Sprint customer, coverage hasn't really improved in 5+ years... The only carrier that I hear of that has improved coverage is AT&T... I have several friends who've said that they didn't have any coverage when they first moved into their houses and then all of a sudden they do... So go figure.

 

And that's because the AT&T network needed it (and in fact still needs it in some areas).

 

Come on Moogle please tell me you're joking. 76 new sites picked up in the Qwest deal in the Phoenix market alone. 40+ brand new CDMA only sites from scratch since 2003. Another 35+ they got from the Nextel deal as synergy sites now active and you say they haven't improved in 5 years?? So I guess you're trying to say that Sprint just wasted their money putting up over 150 new sites since 2003 in the Phoenix area because it didn't make one bit of difference. LOL! Phoenix is actually a very strong market for Sprint and they do very well there (I have inside sources that tell me where they excell and where they don't). NO chance any other carrier has made more improvements than Sprint since 2003 in the greater Phoenix area.

Now if you were to tell me they haven't made many improvements in Salt Lake City and other Utah markets I might be inclined to believe you because it's somewhat true right Andy? I don't have any stats on Utah but I do on Phoenix.

 

Haha, yes that is somewhat true. They have filled in some weak areas in the valley, but their network still needs help, which, hopefully, will happen sooner or later by adding CDMA to existing NEXTEL sites.

 

Better hope those existing Nextel sites have room for the CDMA equipment or they will never happen. There have been a few here in CA that got canned because of lack of room. But luckily most of them around here had enough room.

 

I'm sure Sprint will come up for something in areas they really need to get on those NEXTEL sites.