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Sprint buying Virgin USA

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jmarkso

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I've rather limited knowledge about how these things work, so the rather simple question is. With sprint buying Virgin mobile USA will it increase sprint's network coverage?
 
Isn't Sprint circling the drain anyway? Buying a service no one uses isn't going to help them a bit.
 
People keep saying they are. Though they paid off 1 billion of a 4 billion debt. Personally the only reason I'm considering sprint is,
1) $70 all I can eat. I just don't want to pay $100 a month.
2) Most everyone says their data is quite fast and reliable
3) HTC Hero, which really should be first because if they didn't have the hero I'd not have much interest.
 
jmarkso said:
People keep saying they are. Though they paid off 1 billion of a 4 billion debt. Personally the only reason I'm considering sprint is,
1) $70 all I can eat. I just don't want to pay $100 a month.
2) Most everyone says their data is quite fast and reliable
3) HTC Hero, which really should be first because if they didn't have the hero I'd not have much interest.
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Well they didn't pay off all of it, now did they? :P
Sprint is going under soon. And when it does you'll be out of a provider..unless one of the other, good, companies decides to buy them.
 
if you're that antagonistic regarding sprint, you don't own a sprint phone, and you have nothing AT ALL to contribute, why exactly are you hanging around the SPRINT forums?
 
Ataranine said:
Well they didn't pay off all of it, now did they? :P
Sprint is going under soon. And when it does you'll be out of a provider..unless one of the other, good, companies decides to buy them.
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Sprint's going under? They are expanding the 4G network, ATT is losing it's shirt with the iphone and T-MO is in distant fourth, and SPRINT is the one you're woried about? You're an iphone fanboi, right?
 
Xodus1914 said:
Sprint's going under? They are expanding the 4G network, ATT is losing it's shirt with the iphone and T-MO is in distant fourth, and SPRINT is the one you're woried about? You're an iphone fanboi, right?
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Question: How is AT&T losing it's shirt with the iPhone?

I'm a Sprint customer ... and all I know about AT&T is what I read on the various forums.

Thanks,
-Gary K
 
i dont think sprint is in any immediate danger.. with them having boost as there prepay i dont see the logic in them buying another but kudos to them
 
Doesn't Sprint already own Virgin Mobile? I know they're a virtual provider using Sprint's network but I read somewhere that they already own Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile.
 
As of November 24th Sprint completely owns Virgin Mobile. Before that they owned a percentage (I think around 17%), but the majority shareholder was Virgin Group. What Sprint did with this transaction is buy out the shareholders to own the company outright. Virgin Mobile subscribers already counted towards Sprints total subscriber count but the transaction allowed them to combine Virgin Mobile and Boost to lower operating cost and increase profit (in theory).
 
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