Comments on: Handicapping prospects of a Sprint Nextel deal http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2008/05/06/handicapping-prospects-of-a-sprint-nextel-deal/ Behind the deals and deal-makers Mon, 8 Sep 2008 05:01:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: AllenHarkleroad http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2008/05/06/handicapping-prospects-of-a-sprint-nextel-deal/#comment-334089 AllenHarkleroad Thu, 22 May 2008 12:46:40 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2008/05/06/handicapping-prospects-of-a-sprint-nextel-deal/#comment-334089 Sprint overcharged my small (US) company for over $50,000.00. We caught them doing it and now they refuse to refund the over-payments. You can read the full story at www.sprint-really-sucks.com Sprint overcharged my small (US) company for over $50,000.00. We caught them doing it and now they refuse to refund the over-payments. You can read the full story at http://www.sprint-really-sucks.com

]]> By: Jerry Joseph http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2008/05/06/handicapping-prospects-of-a-sprint-nextel-deal/#comment-333972 Jerry Joseph Mon, 12 May 2008 01:10:46 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2008/05/06/handicapping-prospects-of-a-sprint-nextel-deal/#comment-333972 " I think they need to focus on what’s next for Nextel and get the fire burning there quickly. It may be as simple as a migration plan away from IDEN to a 3G CDMA using 1X technology for push to talk, or if that doesn’t net the desired result… work a development deal with qualcomm to tune the process up to where it works like IDEN. Seems like they should have been doing this long ago" This technology you ask for has been in developmental stages for over 4 years and is now being soft launched in a few markets. It not only works like iDEN, it also can interface with iDEN. Sprint can only launch the technology in Rev A markets. ” I think they need to focus on what’s next for Nextel and get the fire burning there quickly. It may be as simple as a migration plan away from IDEN to a 3G CDMA using 1X technology for push to talk, or if that doesn’t net the desired result… work a development deal with qualcomm to tune the process up to where it works like IDEN. Seems like they should have been doing this long ago”

This technology you ask for has been in developmental stages for over 4 years and is now being soft launched in a few markets. It not only works like iDEN, it also can interface with iDEN. Sprint can only launch the technology in Rev A markets.

]]> By: Robert Elmore http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2008/05/06/handicapping-prospects-of-a-sprint-nextel-deal/#comment-333889 Robert Elmore Tue, 06 May 2008 21:55:08 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/reuters-dealzone/2008/05/06/handicapping-prospects-of-a-sprint-nextel-deal/#comment-333889 Having worked in the wireless industry for over 22 years, I had to take a pause when Sprint acquired Nextel and wonder what were they thinking. People would ask me questions like, how are they going to integrate their technology and my answer was "they're not" at least not this generation of technology. That all being said, splitting the company up would be a huge error in judgement in my opinion (remember AT&T, now owned by one of their spun off companies?). I think they need to focus on what's next for Nextel and get the fire burning there quickly. It may be as simple as a migration plan away from IDEN to a 3G CDMA using 1X technology for push to talk, or if that doesn't net the desired result... work a development deal with qualcomm to tune the process up to where it works like IDEN. Seems like they should have been doing this long ago, IDEN was basically the second digital technology deployed in the us following AT&T's now defunct TDMA system and has been long in the tooth for years now. Regardless, this will be interesting to see just how bad the Sprint upper management is willing to go to protect their "Phony Bologna jobs"... (quote from a Mel Brooks Film)... Having worked in the wireless industry for over 22 years, I had to take a pause when Sprint acquired Nextel and wonder what were they thinking. People would ask me questions like, how are they going to integrate their technology and my answer was “they’re not” at least not this generation of technology.
That all being said, splitting the company up would be a huge error in judgement in my opinion (remember AT&T, now owned by one of their spun off companies?). I think they need to focus on what’s next for Nextel and get the fire burning there quickly. It may be as simple as a migration plan away from IDEN to a 3G CDMA using 1X technology for push to talk, or if that doesn’t net the desired result… work a development deal with qualcomm to tune the process up to where it works like IDEN. Seems like they should have been doing this long ago, IDEN was basically the second digital technology deployed in the us following AT&T’s now defunct TDMA system and has been long in the tooth for years now.
Regardless, this will be interesting to see just how bad the Sprint upper management is willing to go to protect their “Phony Bologna jobs”… (quote from a Mel Brooks Film)…

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