Reply With QuoteLOLOLOLLOLOLLOOOLL @ The all hands video, It's just an admission of merger. I'm so want to rehost that video just to show investors how crappy they are getting.
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Originally Posted by i0wnj00
I understand the increase in costs for additional bandwidth, but lying about it as an industry to strongarm the government into opening more spectrum when the issue is only lack of bandwidth is just plain wrong. Why don't they just tell the truth and let people know they are too cheap to spend money on their customers bandwidth needs instead of blaming it on a completely irrelevant issue.
And where the hell did you get super sized portions. Cricket has some of the slowest data speeds in the industry yet they charge on par with t-mo and other major carriers for what little data they offer in their plans.
I dont mind paying extra, The issue is that in 2007 cricket started offering EVDO. The speeds were good and now due to the increased data on the network they are seeing data increases but they're not increasing with the demand.
I'd love to charge a ton of money and not give a customer anything in return but that's not fair and wont fly with any right minded person.
My HTC Moguls's speed test signal with Cricket EVDO Tests in 2007.
Cricket throttles their network and I only get 300k now
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LOLOLOLLOLOLLOOOLL @ The all hands video, It's just an admission of merger. I'm so want to rehost that video just to show investors how crappy they are getting.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc has held talks to buy smaller rival Leap Wireless International in recent months, according to people familiar with the matter, in the latest sign U.S. carriers are looking at acquisitions as a way to grow in a mature market.
These talks were serious enough for Leap Wireless to hire bankers to advise it on a potential deal, said the three sources who asked not to be identified because the discussions were private. Reuters could not learn whether those discussions are still ongoing.
Leap Wireless has a market value of roughly $400 million and $3.2 billion of long-term debt.
Representatives for AT&T and Leap Wireless declined to comment.
These discussions were held amid a flurry of deal activity in the U.S. telecom sector, in which the four national carriers and smaller operators like Leap and MetroPCS Communications Inc are fighting mainly for customers who already have cellphones. The market is dominated by Verizon Wireless , AT&T, Sprint Nextel and Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile USA.
Moreover, the proliferation of bandwidth-hungry smartphones has U.S. wireless carriers scrambling to gain access to more airwaves.
AT&T has said that it urgently needs access to additional wireless spectrum and will explore every possible way to achieve that. Last year, the company struck a deal to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion, but U.S. regulators blocked the attempt by the No. 2 and No. 4 U.S. wireless carriers to merge.
Deutsche Telekom has since been considering other strategic options for T-Mobile USA, including a possible deal to merge the unit with MetroPCS, other sources familiar with the matter said. The considerations, however, are at a very early stage and the German telecom company is not close to any decision on a deal with MetroPCS, the sources said.
T-Mobile USA Chief Executive declined to comment on Thursday about whether it was ready for an acquisition of another company. A MetroPCS spokesman was not available to comment on Thursday but the company has declined to comment on talks with Deutsche Telekom earlier.
Meanwhile, in February, Sprint Nextel pulled the plug on a deal to buy MetroPCS at the last minute, people familiar with the matter told Reuters at that time.
Verizon Wireless is seeking regulatory approval for a purchase of $3.9 billion worth of spectrum from cable companies.
Both Leap and MetroPCS, which focus on prepaid services for cost conscious customers, are having a tough time competing with their bigger rivals, which have also been eyeing opportunities in the prepaid market with growth slowing for contract customers.
Wireless industry analysts have long said that they expect Leap and MetroPCS to consolidate with a bigger company, or with each other.
However, an AT&T-Leap deal would be complicated by the fact that Leap and AT&T use incompatible network technologies, which would make the integration of both companies more costly and time consuming. The same technology problem would exist for a combination between T-Mobile and MetroPCS.
(Reporting by Soyoung Kim and Nadia Damouni, additional reporting by Sinead Carew; editing by Paritosh Bansal and Richard Chang)
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Shares of Leap Wireless International rose 11 percent on Friday as investors bet that the company could be bought by No. 2 U.S. mobile provider AT&T Inc even as analysts questioned the logic of such a deal.
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I'm kind of questioning the deal myself. It's really confusing why a GSM carrier would want a POS CDMA operation
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You could fire every customer and employee of the prepay carrier the day after the acquisition and have all that spectrum to yourself. They've already sold their network so they wouldn't even have legacy CDMA equipment to worry about.
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Hey man I understand you're in a delusional state but look at Sprint and Nextel people said no way they would merge cause the integration of iDEN.. It happened. LEAP is broke and for the 11% jump someone is shorting the stock they are gaming it. Also ESPP will kick in next month so who participated will generically jump the stock.. Here is my prediction on middle of summer LEAP will announce something and will change the landscape. I have seen the so called initiative right now for this quarter and what they are doing should have been done in the past, so now they are focusing on it?!?!?! They have nothing new and they are relying on two things to drive growth Muve and Lifeline, oh and customer experience(this can be fixed by fixing the network and getting more reliable phones, but we can't cause LEAP is broke). Muve and Lifeline cannot save a company alone sorry..
To throw confusion on the matter the ol mighty master wants to tier Data? LEAP needs to fix the fundamental first before it can go experiment on something completely different.
As a manager Robert you should know better specially in the market you are in don't have to lie to kick it. We are all friends here.It's ok we know you also have frustrations, if you don't right now.. You will...
PS: Watch the all hands deck meeting video again its peppered with PROOF that they are preparing for a hit.
Another thing AT&T most likely won't pick up LEAP.. The most likely contender would be Sprint, because everything LEAP has done like system upgrades the shift of logistics that LEAP is using is almost identical to Sprint format. When Sprint board decline to purchase Metro they were thinking instead of getting LEAP because its cheap and negotiable, Metro is more solid and on top of that LEAP is already piggy backing on Sprint network so its way easier to integrate.
IF AT&T does pick LEAP up they would just fire everyone and sell everything and just eat the spectrum, cause the spectrum alone is worth the price of admission. For the argument that the spectrum is not compatible they can easily swap with other carriers.
** The endgame is coming soon .... Save your money and make your peace.
Last edited by reddragonprodz; 05-13-2012 at 01:15 AM.
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It may be AT&T getting the spectrum with Sprint picking up the customers and network hardware in the switches. All that would take would be a simple PRL update to fix that.
I see that as the solution LEAP and metro may be going towards.
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Were at war with MetroPCS in Vegas. If either company was getting sold, we would be starting up a price/trade/flash war again. It costs money and kills the payments. I don't think the CEO of either company will sell out until they have no other choice. How are you guys so confident?
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The CEO doesn't really care they already have their affairs in order. With the relationship of price/trade/flash that is just a minor problem, the big problem is expanding without the avail. spectrum. Think of it like Disneyland they don't have alot of acres but to expand more rides they can a) reuse the same spot( in relation to LEAP and Metro they can tweak current towers to hold more or b) buy more land( buy more spectrum and towers) but here lies the issue both companies are maxed out on their line of credit and cannot get anymore to expand. Metro has a little more wiggle room but still its more of a headache than anything else. It's easier to dump than to re-structure. How are we so confident? Look at the current stock news the state of things in the wireless arena it does not take a genius to add 1+1 to figure that the whole system will collapse.
Also, watch or hear their conference calls for Q1 and you can easily hear keywords that something is up.
** That price war is more of a distraction than anything else.
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Guess it's time to send out some resumes before something happens. Sprint would be a better match. At&Tisn't going to want our hood locations/distribution, just the customers. Been with them since launch here. Trade-In and all. I hope they keep us intact.
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I'm pretty sure they only want the spectrum. To be honest most cricket and metro customers are a just hassle to those companies. They only see value in spectrum and the subscribers will definately go to sprint. Thats why they have a Richard Motilal from Sprint handling all of the logistics.
http://www.howardforums.com/attachme...0&d=1329983641
BTW did I mention they have been working on the fine details of this selloff/merger for 2-3 years.
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Both Leap and Metro will be sold/merged. Metro was a hair's breadth away from it a month ago and had the Sprint stock price being higher, it would have happened. I personally like for Sprint to absorb them both since it will mean less headaches for customers. It might be that they only absorb Leap. Sprint will probably sell the AWS spectrum to T-Mobile hopefully in exchange for some PCS spectrum. Sprint appreciates and embraces prepaid customers, where as others treat them like lepers.
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The sad thing is that greed is the only reason that these companies never did well is the fact that the people that managed it were greedy and only cared about what they could make out of it for themselves.
These companies are like a game of jenga. They keep taking away from their foundation and adding more to the top, Well in a short time that fatal block will be pulled causing the whole game to come crashing down, or some smart company will buy them and fill the holes in their game.
I see all these wireless companies failing in the future if the economy gets any worse. A national carrier will happen, mark my words....
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Obama Wireless, MVNO powered by Lifeline... I can see it happening
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