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Re: Consumer Reports Ratings are Out----Verizon top carrier in 14
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| Robert Coe wrote:
> On 5 Dec 2006 17:46:17 -0800, "Andrew267@gmail.com" <Andrew267@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> : Sprint dedicated $7 billion to network enhancements in 2006.
> : Sprint is investing more than $2 billion into the Nextel National
> : Network and adding more than 1,600 new cell sites to expand
> : coverage and increase capacity across the country.
> : Sprint leads the industry in mobile broadband coverage ...
> :
> : [remainder of fawning paean omitted]
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> Yeah, you said all that in another thread not more than 15 minutes earlier. I
> hope you're one of Sprint's paid PR flacks; it would be silly to go to the
> effort of kissing their XXX for free.
It's rather amusing to see the yearly scrambling of PR people, paid and
unpaid, for the carriers that do poorly. Last year Cingular was claiming
that the reason that they did so poorly was the conversion from
TDMA/AMPS to GSM, and the AT&T acquisition. Then they went on to say how
much money they are spending on improving their network. I'm sure that
Cingular will have a statement in the next week or so, Consumer Reports
is too highly respected for them to ignore the survey, especially with
that savage sidebar about Cingular's "Fewest Dropped Calls" claim. The
rationalizations should prove to be amusing. It's a bad week for the
Sprint and Cingular shills!
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| Scott wrote:
> John Navas < spamfilter0@navasgro
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> Bullshit, but keep grasping at those straws. And please don't bore us with
> your google links to things you have no experience with.
This one is really grasping too, since by Cingular's own admission,
there are very very few users still on TDMA, and the ones that remain
use very few minutes. Two years ago, the TDMA/AMPS users were dragging
the Cingular score up not down.
iDEN users probably do drag down Sprint's score slightly, but not all
that much since most iDEN users don't use their Nextel phones as their
primary phone. There are a lot of iDEN users with work-provided PTT
handsets, but these users know that the iDEN network is not something
that they can depend on for non-business use.
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| SMS wrote:
> iDEN users probably do drag down Sprint's score slightly, but not all
> that much since most iDEN users don't use their Nextel phones as their
> primary phone. There are a lot of iDEN users with work-provided PTT
> handsets, but these users know that the iDEN network is not something
> that they can depend on for non-business use.
I saw in the CR article that they did not include iDEN customers in the
ratings, the Sprint results are solely for CDMA (and whatever AMPS
roaming Sprint customers engage in).
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