Sprint says goodbye to Nextel?

Sprint says goodbye to Nextel?

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Published on: 10 March 2008 by PhoneArena Team

Sprint says goodbye to Nextel?

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Many of Sprint's troubles have been seen as a result of the Nextel acquisition. There are rumors saying that the company has hired Morgan Stanley to manage the sale of the problematic part of its business. On the other hand, Merill Lynch has suggested that Deutsche Telecom (T-Mobile) is considering buying Sprint and Nextel in order to stabilize its positions on the U.S. market, even though the combination of GSM with CDMA carrier would be kind of strange.

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Very interesting...
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ITS ABOUT TIME
I'm guess'n sprint will say goodbye to nextel... t-mobile will take sprint and then nextel all alone will get ignored by all carriers... and finally die..
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osro what are you smoking
t-mobile/deutsche telecom will not go under?? If your talking nationwide, we are the largest vs VZW/AT&T/Sprint
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Who would buy just Nextel without 2.5 GHz Spectrum?

They should really come in sell each part individually. For Sale: Sprint PCS CDMA, Sprint WiMax, Nextel iDen.
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How about this scenario....Nextel Partners group together and take Nextel off Sprints hands for pennies on the dollar.
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I think Nextel is a good invesment...it is great for bussinesses. The Direct Connect Service is very useful. I think Sprint is just troubled. I couldn't see them together with T-Mobile..but correct me if you disagree. I think Nextel should still be with a bigger company, but the brand shouldn't be eliminated. It should still be called Nextel. I couldn't think of another company they would go with. o well...
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DOESNT MATTER WHAT SPRINT DOES TO SAVE MONEY, THEY HAVE DUG THEMSELVES TOO LARGE A HOLE AND CANNOT COME BACK FROM THAT.
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I hope t-mobile does buy them. Reason: it would open up some healthy competition in the US. Also, it would allow customers to OPT out of their contracts and switch to other carriers. The good ones that are left...
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i think t mobile and sprint could be some good next to eachother ecspecially when looking at the growth of world phones.every phone could have world capability.sprint has potential with correct management and better training of csr's and less outsourcing.nextel is just dead they should merge with ampd mobile and espn mobile for a big digital funeral!
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nextel is a bad investement at the moment. remember those previous articles from a few months ago? Nextel has been told to get off the emergency bands or be shut down by june. We'll see what happends after that. pennies on the pennies no the dollar for a nextel sale after that
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More Info Please
There is not enough information here to back up this rumor. Yes we know Sprint is struggling but is it necessary to post articles with information that is very questionable considering there is no RAW data supporting this. I call BS until you provide us with more details.
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The Man
It's only a matter of time. Who cares. This is like arguing over a 8th place for 6th grade girls basketball. If your not on the Verizon or AT&T bus your getting left behind. Also the AT&T bus is a short bus!
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Steve Crackberry is an idiot
T-Mobile does not have as many customers then any of the carriers, even nextel by themselves have more carriers then your fly-by-night wireless carrier. T-Mobile in Europe is a good carrier, but in America its as good as a Ford Mustang.
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david@ss
#2 made a comment about t-mobile taking over sprint/nextel and than they will go under as well. I made a statement that out of all US carriers, speaking nationwide, t-mobile has the most carriers and they they would not go under...
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Well, Steveicrackberry, it IS true. It would seem you're somewhat biased to "T-Mobile." And I'm not quite sure what figures you're basing your "largest nationwide" on. If you meant globally, try Vodafone with VZW. That's the sure-fire winner there. And as far as network goes... they certainly don't have the largest nationwide, nor does it offer the capactiy or the features of the other NATIONAL providers, hell, even Alltel wireless offers high-speed data--on their own network. Not on this Wi-Fi Hotspot mumbo-jumbo. Sheesh. Lower price = lower service.
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ur Kidding right!?!?!?!?
OMG so now will be tmobil/nextell lololololol u have to be JK! lol it will be worst that it is right now what a Joke! give me a brake! whats next at&t with sprint lol@!
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pipe dreams
i really dont see how t-mobil could buy sprint. i agree sprint should drop nexte. that was a stupid purchase in the first place based solely on the different network types. sprint should have just kept them seperate. if sprint will cut the rope dragging them down im sure they can turn things around within a year. i can see sprint buying out t-mobil in the future but not the other way around. i agree nextel should probably just die
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account manager
I work for Sprint and just left a high level meeting and I can reassure you we are not getting bought out by anyone. We are not selling Nextel or the rights to the IDEN system. We have plans in place that within the next few months will ahve all you naysayers shaking your head saying how did they turn that company around so fast. So take it for what it is, but I woudl buy sprint stock now while it is at $6.00 a share. Buy low sell high!!
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Sprint employees a problem
Nextel was not the dead weigt to begin with. The problem is that Sprint came in and was lagging far behind in Customer Service and just flat out got rid of the good people. I say, bring Tim Donahue back and see what happens...On another note...lets get some quality service reps and get rid of the lazy ass Sprint Sales people
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For many of you saying Nextel is holding Sprint down, etc etc. Ponder this: As a stand alone carrier Nextel had the lowest churn and highest ARPU in the wireless industry.
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