Verizon to buy AOL for $4.4 billion, boosting mobile media and advertising

Sprint's acquisition of Nextel was a disaster! At one time Sprint was among the best when it came to quality of service, but after the Nextel purchase things steadily went down hill. How they have managed to keep the doors open and the lights on is just about beyond belief...

tHE PROBLEM IS THAT THEY DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO BUILD THE SPECTRUM OUT AS DENSE AS VERIZON OR AT&T.You both are so mis informed ...Sprints big problem is that they failed to build out the network when they had the money. Their stock was over 60.00 a share and instead of investing in R&D and expanding the Network they took big bonus'es and paid the shareholders. The only problem Sprint has now is expanding the network. Wake up there is no such thing as too much spectrum....the problem is having the money to implement coverage every where as densely as Verizon.

Dude, I worked for Sprint as a Indirect Account Executive when they acquired Nextel. Don't tell me I'm misinformed. Sprint overpaid for Nextel, and soon were bleeding money. They laid all of us off 8 months after the acquisition because the couldn't afford to keep the program going. Couple that in with trying to find a way to migrate iDEN customers to CDMA, and launch Wi-MAX, it was a mess. Sprint was the second largest carrier after they picked up Nextel, before SBC and AT&T merged, turning Cingular back to AT&T Mobility. The reason their stock went from $60 a share all the way down to at it's lowest like $2 and change is because they overpaid for an analog network. It seemed like a logical idea because Nextel owned the business market back then, but as unlimited options became more affordable the need for direct connect became non-existent.

Dude because you worked for Sprint does not elevate you to genius status about the internals of running the organization. Sprint may have, or may not have over payed for Nextel as you put it, and with Wimax failing to become industry standard, Light Squared collapsing, failing to invest in infrastructure i.e expanding the net work, and buying 15 billion worth of iPhone sales on loan is what's killing Sprint, and is why Sprint fell. No company has too much spectrum, and if they did the would not be scrambling to buy more. The only reason Sprint would sell spectrum is the desperate need to raise cash. In spite of those issues Sprint was still doing fine until 4G launched in the US in 2010. They had, and still have better coverage than Tmobiile, and the best, and most spectrum of all carriers with that 2.4g spectrum, and their only failing is that they lagg in 4G coverage. With the spectrum, and the tearing down of the old Network, and building the current Network from the ground up will catapult them to elite status for sure. They just need more money to expand that spectrum every where. The reason why they went from 57 a share to 2.00 a share is because they lost customers during the time the stock market crashed Genius. You are misinformed and your uneducated analysis spews misinformation. This misinformation can not be addressed in this thread because it's to deep for me to spoon feed all of the particulars. Stay at the carriers that suit you and watch Sprint blaze to the top, and rub some vaseline on that butt sore of yours!

You are a special kind of stupid. I wasn't just some schmuck sales associate for Sprint. I handled all national retail chains that sold Sprint in the LAX market. My entire staff was brought into our office by our regional director and were told verbatim, “we lost a lot is money in the acquisition of Nextel. We cannot keep any of you on." I never said anything about them having too much spectrum. I said they owned more than any other provider. Sprint overpaid to carry Apple long after they were bleeding money for over a dozen straight quarters. Sprint wasn't doing fine in 2010. They had already been having consecutive quarters in the red for a few years. If you really think I'm putting T-Mobile on a pedestal over Sprint, you haven't ever read anything I've ever posted. T-Mobile is a joke with a CEO even stupider that Dan Hesse. Sprint will never catapult themselves into elite status. Not again. They were once the second best carrier, very close behind Verizon, but they pissed away all their money purchasing an analog network with a fading business market. Seeing as that happened in 2005 and they barely went dark in 2013, I would say that was a catastrophic failure. As poorly run as T-Mobile is, they've done a faster job at tearing down Metro's CDMA network. I've been working in the industry for 13 years. I'm guessing you think you're so informed and knowledgeable because you come on here and read poorly written articles by these writers that are journalism school dropouts. Work in the industry as long as I have, then come back and have a grown up conversion with me kid.

The reason Sprint has struggled so much is because they have so much spectrum that cannot be used because they have to convert it You said that in your 1st post, and no I don't come to this site to read and repost. But I do read "wannabe" know it all post from jerks like you that think you are so much smarter than you really are! For me to have a grown up conversation with you I'd have to grow down to your level you snot nosed know it all. As for Sprint never rising I can't wait to see your face when this does happen. You just have your panties all bunched up because you lost your job. I bet it was because you were as smart as you are here posting about how great you are when you ar not.

Why thank you...Before long you'll be able to purchase a 32GB device with a whole 5GB of useable storage...Just leave it to VZW to "bundle" in all of these useable apps that no one likes with no way to remove them.

AOL is a lot more than internet service. They brought in $2.3 Billion in revenue in 2013.