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I was grandfathered over from Sprint too, and left TMO last year. TMO had no idea what to do with all that tech that Sprint was bringing to the table, and still don't. They will start selling off some of those regional cascades soon if they don't get it together..
 
Sloboogie said:
I was grandfathered over from Sprint too, and left TMO last year. TMO had no idea what to do with all that tech that Sprint was bringing to the table, and still don't. They will start selling off some of those regional cascades soon if they don't get it together..
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That is happening already, because they sold off sprint Wireline to cogent.
 
easy_b said:
That is happening already, because they sold off sprint Wireline to cogent.
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Sprint should have just stayed still. They had the leg up on 5G tech with the ClearWire purchase and buildout. Coulda have easily focused on the wireless broadband market with very light support in telecom. TMO just tossing resins in the potato salad
 
Sloboogie said:
Sprint should have just stayed still. They had the leg up on 5G tech with the ClearWire purchase and buildout. Coulda have easily focused on the wireless broadband market with very light support in telecom. TMO just tossing resins in the potato salad
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Sprint was controlled by Softbank and after the failed AT&T merger got like $2 bily from AT&T......

However money talks.....Sprint was hemorrhaging. Their failed 4G Evo Max was costing them and board members wanted to see some positive ROI......

Sprint was never gonna remain #4 for the long run. Eventually the market had to be reduced to 3.
 
D24OHA said:
Sprint was controlled by Softbank and after the failed AT&T merger got like $2 bily from AT&T......

However money talks.....Sprint was hemorrhaging. Their failed 4G Evo Max was costing them and board members wanted to see some positive ROI......

Sprint was never gonna remain #4 for the long run. Eventually the market had to be reduced to 3.
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That's where the purchase of the Clearwire infrastructure (before Softbank) was brilliant. It wasn't Evo MAX that was killing them. It was the reluctancy to move on from the CDMA platform that kept them out of the global market (except for regions in China). Sprint was already deploying retrofitted 5G cascades before people were hip to it, and that was the huge selling point for T-Mobile. Sprint's name had gotten so bad, that someone HAD to be the new face for the tech.
 
I worked for Sprint a while back, and it was OK, cause I got to wild out on a travel expense account. I have cell service with TMob now and their customer service is better than all the rest I've tried recently. Oh well, things change. If they go south, I'll switch to Spectrum.
 
Sloboogie said:
That's where the purchase of the Clearwire infrastructure (before Softbank) was brilliant. It wasn't Evo MAX that was killing them. It was the reluctancy to move on from the CDMA platform that kept them out of the global market (except for regions in China). Sprint was already deploying retrofitted 5G cascades before people were hip to it, and that was the huge selling point for T-Mobile. Sprint's name had gotten so bad, that someone HAD to be the new face for the tech.
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Listen, I’m going to tell you all this and this is why Tmo shut down Sprint 5G when they fully bought Sprint…. The industry knows that Sprint 5G was a lot faster than T-Mobile. This is why Tmo shut it down quickly, even though they owned it. And the fucked up thing about this……it wasn’t really a technology issue because in Atlanta T-Mobile and Sprint used Ericsson. Before the merger Sprint actually stabilize….its true sprint wasn’t getting a ton of new customers, but we had stop losing
customers.
 
easy_b said:
Listen, I’m going to tell you all this and this is why Tmo shut down Sprint 5G when they fully bought Sprint…. The industry knows that Sprint 5G was a lot faster than T-Mobile. This is why Tmo shut it down quickly, even though they owned it. And the fucked up thing about this……it wasn’t really a technology issue because in Atlanta T-Mobile and Sprint used Ericsson. Before the merger Sprint actually stabilize….its true sprint wasn’t getting a ton of new customers, but we had stop losing
customers.
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Atlanta was an outlier because Sprint spent money upgrading the network in the area for Super Bowl LIII and it was a test bed for 5G because their main switching hub was pretty close to Peachtree Corners where things like automated cars and traffic tracking are being tested. Everywhere else, they weren't the slowest, but they definitely wasn't the fastest.

That was their biggest problem. They bet wrong on WIMAX, and then had to scramble and retrofit it to LTE so they were cash strapped for several years. You are right that they had stopped the bleeding but even before T-Mobile was an option they kind of admitted that while they could survive CapEx was a problem and they likely would always be behind AT&T and Verizon as far as deployments in the future.
 
Ryokurin said:
Atlanta was an outlier because Sprint spent money upgrading the network in the area for Super Bowl LIII and it was a test bed for 5G because their main switching hub was pretty close to Peachtree Corners where things like automated cars and traffic tracking are being tested. Everywhere else, they weren't the slowest, but they definitely wasn't the fastest.

That was their biggest problem. They bet wrong on WIMAX, and then had to scramble and retrofit it to LTE so they were cash strapped for several years. You are right that they had stopped the bleeding but even before T-Mobile was an option they kind of admitted that while they could survive CapEx was a problem and they likely would always be behind AT&T and Verizon as far as deployments in the future.
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True, Sprint did drop the ball in the early years by trying to go with WIMAX instead of Ericsson 4G equipment in the south. Yes It came back and bit sprint in the ass quickly. This is why Sprint was playing catch-up after that terrible decision. But we did stabilize towards the end, but it was too late. T-Mobile is starting to make dumb decisions like the early days of Sprint so I don’t know what in the hell is going to happen over the next two years. I have 20+ years in I’m not walking away, but is getting a little frustrating.
 

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