Thoughts on the femtocell

Floptical said:
They paid to get out of my contract 2 weeks ago. Also Sprint is on the verge of filing for bankruptcy so I'd stay clear from them. Plus I have the exact same plan as I had with ATT and it's $60 cheaper.
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Really?

“In the second quarter, we made further progress on our efforts to enhance financial stability, improve the customer experience and reinvigorate the brand,” said Dan Hesse, Sprint Nextel CEO. “The widespread visibility surrounding our record-breaking June launch of the Palm® Pre™ handset gave us an unprecedented opportunity to showcase these improvements to customers as ‘a new Sprint.’ They saw a 3G network described by PC World magazine as the most reliable among competitors, key satisfaction and performance metrics in customer care improving for 18 straight months, advertising that won the top international award in Cannes, and a stable balance sheet with 2009 long-term debt maturities paid and enough cash on hand to cover maturities through 2011.

“In the quarter, we saw the best retail net add performance in the past seven quarters. We also saw the best quarterly sequential change in CDMA net add performance in two years, ARPU that has been stable for six consecutive quarters, continued prepaid growth, and improved sequential Adjusted Operating Income Before Depreciation and Amortization* (Adjusted OIBDA),” Hesse said.
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This is on the news post regarding their SEC filing.
 
Coqui said:
I can understand that, but their cash flow, etc. suggest otherwise.
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If they are losing 4mil plus in customer's a year the writing is on the way. It was a bit easier to compete before when there were so many cell providers but you are basically down to ATT, Verizon, and Sprint. Granted T-Mobile is still there but it's just waiting to get bought out.
 
Floptical said:
If they are losing 4mil plus in customer's a year the writing is on the way. It was a bit easier to compete before when there were so many cell providers but you are basically down to ATT, Verizon, and Sprint. Granted T-Mobile is still there but it's just waiting to get bought out.
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Speculation != fact. It's not a guarantee that they will lose that many customers.

Last quarter they gained a market share on their iDEN network by adding 938,000 customers and lost 531,000 customers on their CDMA.

How that will translate into 4+ mil I can't see.
 
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Coqui said:
Speculation != fact. It's not a guarantee that they will lose that many customers.

Last quarter they gained a market share on their iDEN network by adding 938,000 customers and lost 531,000 customers on their CDMA.

How that will translate into 4+ mil I can't see.
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these are professional industry analysts. they don't just pull the figures out of thin air. one would hope anyway
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2009/09/17/sprint-likely-to-go-it-alone/?mod=yahoobarrons
 
sham w_a_w said:
these are professional industry analysts. they don't just pull the figures out of thin air. one would hope anyway
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2009/09/17/sprint-likely-to-go-it-alone/?mod=yahoobarrons
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You do realize you just linked to an article linked in the article he posted right?


I'm not pulling figures out of my ass either.

http://m.news.com/2166-12_3-10298335-94.html

On a positive note, Sprint did gain strength in its prepaid business. The company added some 938,000 new prepaid customers to its Boost Mobile brand during the quarter
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http://newsreleases.sprint.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=127149&p=irol-newsArticle_newsroom&ID=1313470

For the quarter, total wireless customers declined by approximately 257,000
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