Thread: Dan says .. WIMAX is for sprint (NOT?) - Sprint Carrier

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rldev 2427681 Forums are forums. Verizon has the most loyal customer base in the wireless industry. You can not compare Sprint to Verizon from a customer perspective. Changing their name certainly didnt hurt Verizon. How many even remember their name was Bell Atlantic?

The name Verizon is the offspring of Bell Atlantic and GTE, and zero to do with customer retention, and predates the name Verizon Wireless by some 17 years.

If Sprint were to merge with T-mobile, it might make sense to create a new corporate identity, but to just shift gears and waste millions, if not billions of dollars, with no assurance that it will result in more subs...

Sprint would be better off using that money to expand coverage, get Apple to create the first 4G iPhone, and make the Evo2 the android phone to have for the next 12 months.

As long as a merger with T-Mobile would mean IMPROVED calling/network service, Im all for it. I also hope that would mean that it would remain the most affordable of all the wireless providers.

As for names, since it would be a combination of Sprint, Nextel, and T-Mobile, why not...

SExT-Mobile...HAHAHAHA

In all seriousness, Id imagine that if the merger went down, theyd want to create a new image as a new provider, so I can imagine a whole different name alltogether (just like when AT&T became Cingular Wireless).

so much for wimax being for sprint now LOL

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silencer271 2436876 so much for wimax being for sprint now LOL

Where did you get that sprint is abandoning wimax? Just wondering. Because they might add lte functionality does not mean they will abandon lte.

nothing is set in stone till sprint .. makes an announcement.