I wonder if the last days of Sprint looked like this.
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@1qtq+1kEQRow0- only you aren't the first to say this.... myself and others have been saying this for years!
We are closer to Sprint than most realize.
When we took on all that debt long term, lost all those postpaid customers, replaced them with bogus tablets and wireless rates went down due to competitive pressure. That all was strike 1.
Strike 2 was a lack of leadership, offloading the competitent employees who were voicing concerns and trying to get the company back on track. This created a culture of yes men, and incompetence. This led to failed investments in media (go90, AOL, yahoo etc) as well as a morale issue from the stores to basking ridge.
Strike 3 was the failed bet on the 5g spectrum. Though impressive the speeds were not practical except for fixed wireless spaces and did little to improve the user experience in 99.9% of places. T mobile with its mid band planned a better deployment strategy, and bolstered its average network in order to be in the same conversation as Verizon. That narrative is what will call Verizon "struck out" at the plate.
There was plenty more that Verizon did to be the rudderless ship reminiscent of the Titanic.
In 5 years Verizon will be a shell of itself and in 10 years Verizon as we know it will cease to exist. It will either go bankrupt and be sold off for parts, or more likely, merge with another smaller company to sustain it itself but as a third, bargain basement network. I think T Mobile will become the number 1 player, with AT&T holding on to number 2 spot.
Our 100 million+ customers will go down to about 80 million or so- AT&T will end up at 120 mil+ and T Mobile will capture about 130 mil+
Heard it here first folks.
Meh lot farther to fall before it's sprint territory. Takes a long time for the titanic to sink.
I was wondering that the other day, was this what it was like when sprint was going under.