Sprint buying Virgin USA

jmarkso · Nov 24, 2009

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?

Ataranine · Nov 24, 2009

Isn't Sprint circling the drain anyway? Buying a service no one uses isn't going to help them a bit.

jmarkso · Nov 24, 2009

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.

Ataranine · Nov 24, 2009

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.

Well they didn't pay off all of it, now did they?

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.

cheri703 · Nov 24, 2009

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 · Nov 24, 2009

cheri703 said:
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?

Because they're available to me. Sawwwwyyy.

pdragon · Dec 2, 2009

If you've nothing useful to contribute to this forum, please stay out of it.

Xodus1914 · Dec 7, 2009

Ataranine said:
Well they didn't pay off all of it, now did they?
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.

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?

egkor · Dec 7, 2009

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?

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

BiGMERF · Dec 9, 2009

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

arashed31 · Dec 14, 2009

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.

s.hines · Dec 14, 2009

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).

Eaglesfan9106 · Dec 14, 2009

There's no way sprint will just go bankrupt and Dick over all of ther customers people sorry I don't see that happening

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