Talk:Sprint Corporation

message: I found the company origins very hard to understand, in the main because they were not consistently chronological.  I intended just to re-order the existing content into a semblance of a timeline, but it turned into a bit more.  Still mostly used the material that was there, but added a citation for the origin of the name "Sprint", and moved out a sub-section "Sprint PCS" that belongs under the "Sprint Today" section.  Then added a title for a ref in the head section.  So really just cleanup, but I think it is more usable and coherent now.  Swiveler (talk) 09:28, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: History re-worked

message: In the article it says "The rollout is expected to reach 100 metropolitan areas and 100 million people by the end of 2008."
Well it is 2009.  Does anyone know what their status is?  Did they make another projection?
Lambedan (talk) 05:15, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: 4G Status

message: It was announced today that Sprint will reconsolodate its world headquarters ocne again in Overland Park. I have slightly edited the businesses section to accomodate this recent change, however it may need some re-wording to make it flow correctly. Please make edits as news comes forward on the business moveKcuello (talk) 21:50, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Sprint Returning to OP

message: This article is 100% marketing copy. Given widespread problems with Sprint, it seems that a more indepth article is needed.
Wikipedia is not the right forum for airing grievance with a particular company
66.68.222.240 (talk) 17:44, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too much corporate copy 

message: User Patcat88 continues to delete Nextel's roaming info, and justifies it by sourcing post from Howard forums and some PDF from CR from 2004. Which does not mention anything about Nextel roaming. All it says it "No roaming on other systems",  which means CDMA, TDMA, GSM, ect.
Here is the roaming info.
Airtel  roaming agreements listing:
http://www.airtel.sc/our_roaming_partners.html
Extend America:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=63347&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=429644&highlight=
SouthernLINC Wireless:
http://www.southernlinc.com/2002_1.asp
The2ndflood 03:37, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Problems with Patcat88 over editing

message: I have tagged this page for cleanup. I have already corrected several grammatical errors, however there are quite a few more spread throughout the article. Also, the organizational layout of the article could use improvement. --Bshrode 21:56, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Tagged for Cleanup

message: Donahue is Chairman of the Board while Forsee is President and CEO.  Don't you think that Chairman of the Board is a higher rank than either President and/or CEO? — Vesther 21:19, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: As I understand it, Forsee, as President and CEO, is an employee of the corporation whose power is granted by The Board.  He has complete control over the operation, direction, and vision for the company.  Donahue, as Chairman, plays more of an advisory role along with the other Directors.  Technically, Donahue is above Forsee in the food chain, but Donahue does not represent the company in public and does not have a direct role in the internal chain of command.  That is, the buck stops at Forsee.
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Removed SBC Communications as a competitor, as the deal has closed and the new company will be called AT&T, Inc.   User:  quizzoid
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I'm still cleaning up the portions about the litigations that Sprint Nextel is facing as result of their merger.  By all means- if anyone feels they are able to reword something in particular better than I have, I have no quarrels with that. But as far as I know according to some sources I've read, this company either has to acquire some of these companies (A.S.A.P) or else possibly face a lengthy legal fight as result of the merger.
P.S. The other reason I think these acquisitions are importaint-- is at this rate which Sprint Nextel is growing (they have something like 44 million customers?) with all of these small acquisitions of "500,000 customers" here and another almost "1,500,000" there. If they keep this up- they may soon reach the size of Verizon Wireless? I figure  According to Cingular-, that company has 52.3 million customers.  These small deals of Sprint Nextel have possibly added another ~ 2 million following the merger? and now I'm noticing on the BoostMobile (U.S. website) that company claims 1.7M customers and that they're "a subsidary of Sprint". That possibly may put Sprint Nextel ~ 48 Million customers almost. If this is correct-- and I'm not counting any of the customers they've counted twice then Sprint Nextel is just-about on the verge of by-passing Verizon Wireless? as second largest wireless provider in the USA.
I wouldn't at consider this fuzzy math as fact until I see their Q4 or 10K report stating their actual customer numbers. CaribDigita 06:25, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Donahue and Forsee

message: Any doubt about the headquarters location should now be resolved.  As of the merger with Nextel, the company's main headquarters moved to former-Nextel office space in and around Reston, Virginia (Sprint also had an existing presence a short distance down Sunrise Valley Rd. from the old Nextel campus).  The former headquarters campus in Overland Park, Kansas, is now for operations and engineering only.  The company does not have "two headquarters" in any sense; from a legal and leadership standpoint, Sprint Nextel is headquartered in Reston, Virginia. --24.7.38.65 02:18, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location of headquarters 

message: * I removed the statement about Erick Sanchez as it is very suspect.  This noted person is not mentioned in the Executive Bios http://www2.sprint.com/mr/exList.do nor, on the History timeline, http://www.sprint.com/companyinfo/history/ and searching the Sprint "Newsroom" on "Erick Sanchez" yields no results.  Meanwhile a google search for "Erick Sanchez Sprint Nextel" also turns up a single website with a cached copy of the Erick Sanchez statement from Wikipedia. Is there a source for this Erick Sanchez sttatement and if so how is it that they were "good" for the company?  At the same time the Contribs of that IP# are suspect. .  Is anybody else able to turn up more on any Erick Sanchez? I'm thinking it's just spam. CaribDigita 13:15, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Erick Sanchez? 

message: *I had added "Judith A. Muhlberg" at the time because there were only 2. People listed there.  In my mind she seems to have been very active, including working for State Farm, Boeing, for Dick Cheney and several other prominent persons currently in the White House.  However if there is someone else at Sprint better suited for that spot, feel free to remove her and add that other person.
Stories about Judith Muhlberg.
Example #1: http://www2.sprint.com/mr/news_dtl.do?id=7540
Example #2: http://www.awpagesociety.com/about/trustees/Judith_Muhlberg.asp
Example #3: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_32/b3744016.htm
She has some impressive credentials I think. CaribDigita 16:13, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Just to let others know. 

message: {Scroll down a little)
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=892205
:Speaking of new phones, it looks like Motorola is finally innovating some of their expensive lack-luster Nextel-phones that they shove on us Nextel Customers.  The new i580 will have a rugged design, plus a camara --and-- bluetooth capability .  Unfort. it still doesn't have the 900MHz range (which Sprint got from the purchase of Velocita Wireless.) The 900MHz should provide better iDEN cellular coverage thus reducing some of the dropped-calls. CaribDigita 22:03, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leaked photos of the new dualed Motorola iDEN-CDMA phones. 

message: Why is it still being called the Sprint Nextel Corpaoration. Offically I belive that it is just Sprint the only reason that the Nextel name is being used is there are still Nextel phones out there. With the Nextel Cup being Changed to the Sprint Cup with the start of the 2007 season I don't see way people still think it's the Sprint Nextel Corp. It seems to me that it's should just be the Sprint Corp and they are working on totally phasing out the name Nextel.
:Why? Because the legal name of the holding company is Sprint Nextel Corporation. As long as the legal name is such, the Wikipedia article will remain titled as such. Most articles aren't titled based on a d/b/a name. KansasCity 17:56, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Name?

message: You know, this wasn't a problem until just recently. What was wrong with the founding date of Sprint Nextel being 1899? Granted, Sprint bought Nextel in 2005, but the entity Nextel is technically defunct. Sprint Nextel is just the new name of Sprint following its buyout of Nextel. Sprint did not shed its old name like SBC did following the AT&T buyout. KansasCity 17:56, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Founding Date?

message: Just as was done with the AT&T article, I am proposing an article split: Sprint Nextel should detail the history of Sprint before its acquisition of NEXTEL and the status of the current company. NEXTEL Communications should be created to detail Nextel before the Sprint merger. KansasCity 18:01, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: *What do others think?  Is Nextel historically significant enough to warrant having a Pre-merger encylopedia entry on NEXTEL and SPRINT as well?
 and putting "NEXTEL" under Cat: defunct companies in the United States?
CaribDigita 16:02, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

text: I tried it out just putting everything in the past-tense.  It would look like Sprint Corporation (1899-2005) and NEXTEL Communications (1987-2005) if the AT&T syntax were used. CaribDigita 11:04, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow.  I really think that's a huge improvement.  I especially like the idea of the current Sprint Nextel article gaining a bit of clarity.  Right now it's just a sprawling jumble of an article.  Justen 08:36, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Split

message: I dont think we need the Sprint Nextel Competitors section in the article because of the American mobile phone companies template at the bottom of the page. This information is just repetitive. -- Masterpjz9 17:36, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sprint Nextel Competitors

message: According to Sprint's annual reports, here are the locations for their headquarters.  As you can see, from 1995-2004 Sprint used the term World Headquarters.  In 2005 it changed to Corporate Headquarters.  
1995-2000
Sprint World Headquarters<BR>
2330 Shawnee Mission Parkway<BR>
Westwood, KS
2001-2004
Sprint World Headquarters<BR>
6200 Sprint Parkway<BR>
Overland Park, KS
2005-
Corporate Headquarters<BR>
2001 Edmund Halley Drive<BR>
Reston, VA
http://www.sprint.com/investors/annualreports/
Some of the confusion comes from different meanings for the word headquarters.  A corporate headquarters is a legal or corporate term.  It is where the CEO has his office, and where the board of directors meets.  Headquarters can also mean the central office where a large number of employees work.  When Sprint used the term world headquarters, they were using both of these meanings.  
The campus has between 12,000 and 15,000 employees.  This replaced about 50 leased buildings throughout the Kansas City area.  The campus was both the corporate headquarters, and the place where they consolidated much of their office space.  There were two main purposes for this consolidation.  First, it was a long-term financial savings.  Second, it improved efficiencies and communications by having many employees together in the same place.  
On August 12, 2005, Sprint Nextel announced the completion of their merger.  Here is how they described their locations in their press release:  "Sprint Nextel has approximately 80,000 employees with its corporate headquarters in Reston, Va., and its operational headquarters in Overland Park, Kan."  This is also the verbage that is used for internal documents.  
http://www2.sprint.com/mr/news_dtl.do?id=7760
At this point Sprint Nextel dropped the use of the term World Headquarters.  The corporate headquarters stayed at the location of the Nextel corporate headquarters.  In some ways this was a compromise with the Nextel management, but it was also a reflection of the different market segments each company had.  Nextel had a much larger presence in government and large business than Sprint had.  There were advantages in being close to the beltway.  
Very few peope moved from the campus to Reston.  Many executives now just keep two offices.  Most employees who work at the campus will stay at the campus.  There is no advantage to moving 12,000 - 15,000 people, especially since labor rates and overhead expenses are much lower in Kansas than in Reston, VA.  
My point to all this is that I would like to change the verbage in this article to match the verbage that Sprint is currently using.  
Corporate Headquarters: Reston, VA
Operational Headquarters: Overland Park, KS
Comments?
Jayscore 15:31, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why they make it soo confusing is beyond me. *Boggle-boggle* :-) CaribDigita 16:12, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently it is only confusing to outsiders.  In their announcements management has stated the corporate headquarters are out east and the operational headquarters would remain here in Kansas City. —Mike 15:38, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Location of Sprint Headquarters - Again

message: This section presents a definition for SPRINT as if it is an acronym: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_Nextel_Corporation#Sprint
The problem is it is not clear whether that is the correct acronym or if a single correct acronym for Sprint even exists.  Here are the options and versions I've found so far:
*Southern Pacific Railroad INTegration (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_Nextel_Corporation#Sprint and also mentioned at http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1179895 )
*Southern Pacific Railroad Information NeTwork (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Right-of-way_%28railroad%29 )
*Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Communications. (from http://tcp.dramatools.net/archives/000368.html )
*Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Telecommunications (from http://tcp.dramatools.net/archives/000368.html )
*Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telecommunications (from http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1179895 )
*also this note says it wasn't an acronym, at least not at first, http://yarchive.net/phone/sprint.html which tells of a naming contest:
"Rex Hollis, the VP of Marketing at the time (now with Loral), ran a
contest to select a name.  The winning entry was "Sprint", and was
submitted by Tony Broadman (now with Qwest).  "Sprint" never really
meant anything, but it makes an interesting story.  It was only after
the name began to catch on that attempts were made to "force-fit" it
into an acronym."
*also this version "Yes. I have heard it the way Wally tells it - "INTernal" - as well as a version that the initials SPR just naturally lended themselves to the name SPRINT." (from http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1179895 )
*finally this Usenet thread has some ideas:
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.transport.rail.americas/browse_thread/thread/e0a0b972bf6e2288/
especially this message:
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.transport.rail.americas/browse_thread/thread/e0a0b972bf6e2288/0ceffe65407a72f6?#0ceffe65407a72f6
Kaze0010 02:20, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguity over the correct acronym for SPRINT (if any) 

message: I can totally agree with the confusion over the name. I have both a Sprint (PCS phone) and Sprint (iDEN phone/"NEXTEL").
When you call on the phone the operators still keep referring to Nextel or Sprint depending on which side you call.
If you call 1800-Sprint-1 the operators say "They are the Sprint side."  If you call 1800-639-6111 (Nextel's number) the operators tell you "They are the Nextel side." 
What this company needs to do is something like Cingular e.g. where people had either a "Blue plan" (former AT&T Wireless contract) or "Orange plan" (Plain old Cingular contract).  Sprint Nextel might need to do something like "Yellow" and "Black" or something like that. It's annoying to somehow get transfered to a Nextel Customer service and explain your whole problem with Powervision only to be told they'll transfer you to the Sprint side. etc. If you say "I'm having a problem with my Sprint iDEN phone that sometimes means you need to say "Nextel phone" because the operator still wont know what you're talking about sometimes. Or if you do say "Sprint phone" and mean a Nextel phone sometimes they transfer you to Sprint (PCS) customer service.  It's a great big mess right now. CaribDigita 01:00, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sprint / Sprint Corporation or Sprint Nextel

message: I've removed both link to the "my-nextel" site.  The first link was to a list of phones that was a click-though ad for ringtones.  The second link was for an utterly non-notable forum with ONE post and two registered users.  The policy for external links is at WP:EL.  I can't see any possible reason for including the link.  There are probably other links here that need to be removed as well. Kuru talk 01:40, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: External link problems

message: Who is the trenchcoated actor on the commercials, who always comes in with solutions with a wry look on his face? Chris 19:36, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: *FYI: He was inside the ":Category: Sprint Nextel" at the bottom of the page. Brian Baker (actor)  –  CaribDigita 21:21, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sprint commercial actor

message: It is incorrect to state that Convergys is the only outsourcer for Sprint's customer service.  ACS (affiliated computer services) and Teletech both own large portions of the customer service contract.  In fact, both Teletech and ACS own larger portions of the contract than Convergys.
Stock is lagging peers, today's annoncement brings another wave on negative analyst comments on the merger and management. Shouldn't that be part of the article?--Gkklein 22:41, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outsourcing of customer service for Sprint 

message: *Sprint Nextel Will Layoff 5,000 After Loss Of Subscribers - By W. David Gardner, Tueday, January 09, 2007 (1:19 PM EST)
I'm going to bail too.  I have battle-fatigue after trying to get this company to provide decent service for over a year.
*Sprint Nextel Struggling Since Merger - Wednesday, January 10th, 2007: Forbes.com
CaribDigita 01:30, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sprint loses 300,000 customers in Q1, 2006. Plans layoffs. 

message: NEXTEL Communications and Sprint Corporation (1899-2005)  should be merged with the article Sprint Nextel
-Mrsanitazier March 10,2007 6:41 PM ET
:*This had been debated before.  I myself no longer have Sprint (Thank heavens) so I no longer really care about the debate outcome on their article.  But, one reason why this article *should* be saved is one-day all information about IDEN will probably be erased from the SPRINT article, when that company does away with IDEN.  Nextel (The historical company) is one place that information can be repositoried when IDEN eventually gets decommissioned in favor of CDMA by SPRINT. 
:P.S. This type of thing has also already been debated on Cingular vs. AT&T Wireless merger already (With results of keep). MCI vs. Verizon merger (same result).  AT&T vs. SBC (same result.)  Etc. CaribDigita 15:20, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sprint Corporation (1899-2005) and NEXTEL Communications 

message: Every one of those links is completely vaild. None of them are spam or are trying to sell products or services. None of them violate any of the Wiki rules. So deleting them is against the rules. Please leave them alone Justen, you can not come here and delete links that have been here for 2 years now.
This is a place for info, and all of those links are helpful.
74.241.162.122 07:32, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is not a repository of links.  WP:NOT#LINK.  The nineteen extra external links you attempted to re-add are not necessary for our humble Wikipedia article on Sprint Nextel.  :)  Please try suggesting a DMOZ category for Sprint, and add the links there.  Then we can add one link to that category.  Justen 10:23, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please read WP:NOT#LINK.  Wikipedia is not meant to be a directory of links.  Nineteen unnecessary links do not belong in this (or any) Wikipedia article.  Justen 08:03, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please read WP:NOT#LINK.  Removing these unnecessary external links is not a new discussion with you.  WP:OWN.  Justen 01:56, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Restored links deleted by Justen

message: Sprint tried for a while to merge sprint.com and nextel.com, but has retreated as of late, making the reinclusion of the secondary nextel.com link more helpful.  The official company website, with investor information and such, could be helpful, I believe.
I've never personally visited PhoneNews.com, but it did have frequent and somewhat informative information on Sprint (but not Nextel) phones.  I worry that its presence could be used as an exploitable opening to allow in other external links, and if that happens, I think its absence could be acceptable (given, especially, that the much more cohesive articles for Cingular and Verizon Wireless have omitted links to phone news and rumours sites).
Finally, I'm not particularly attached to the Google Video link, but I could see a lot of people finding its inclusion pleasant.
A lot of paring, but I think this helps make the external links section for this article much more trustworthy, simple, and navigable, while still being useful and helpful.  Thoughts?  Justen 10:03, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Additions and other comments

message: The industry term for this is "Dry Loop".  That is when a subscriber gets DSL service (via the phone company central office) but does not subscribe to landline telephone service.  It is my unconfirmed understanding that such a line will get dail tone but is only capable of calling 911 and has no phone number that can be dailed and thus is unable to recieve any incomming calls.  More and more phone companies are making Dry Loop ADSL avaialbe in order to compete with Cable companies that would otherwise monopolize the Home broadband with VIOP markets. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 198.31.184.166 (talk) 18:05, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ADSL without Landline Telephone Service 

message: Near the end of the page it says: "Throughout season 1-6 of the television series 24<nowiki>..." Could somebody please change the link to <nowiki>24? Right now, it links to the year AD 24. /Ludde23 Talk Contrib 17:48, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: done. CMummert · talk 17:59, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requesting an edit 

message: Why is SunCom listed as a major competitor? They really aren't, besides that only the top 5 should be listed. If the top 6 are listed then Suncom would be gone and Dobson (Cellular One) would be number 6 (in terms of subscribers) .....thoughts?Strunke 02:32, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  SunCom 

message: The founding date of Sprint Nextel should be included in the corporate infobox as such:
:1899The current company named Sprint Nextel Corporation was incorporated in 1899. Its acquisition of NEXTEL Communications resulted in its name changing from Sprint Corporation to Sprint Nextel Corporation. Hoover's Corporate Guide, 2006.
The current founding date gives readers the impression that Sprint Nextel was reincorporated in 2005 when, in fact, it simply changed its name. Similar instances can be found on CBS Corporation, AT&T, and Verizon Communications. KansasCity 17:22, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Requesting edit

message: I haven't been following this article lately, but a look at the edit history reveals that it has been protected for nearly a month. I can't see any reason at all to justify this, whichever admin protected it should unprotect it now, or, at the very least, bring it down to a mere semi-protection. aido2002 00:21, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll unprotect it for now.  My assumption is that the slow revert war over external links won't kick back up again.  Please continue the discussion in the section above before adding any more external links. Kuru talk 01:18, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time to Unprotect 

message: Sprint is retiring "Nextel" finally and on the website they've started to rename "Sprint Nextel" to just "Sprint" this article might require a rename in line with the company's moves to phase out Nextel all together. CaribDigita Not right now ofcourse but a little ways down the line. 20:04, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Be on the lookout this article might need a rename. 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:SprintLetter1 550x590.jpg

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:SprintLetter1 550x590.jpg

message: Which codec and at what bitrate is Sprint PCS sending audio?  IMHO it would be worthwhile to add that to the article.  -  Theaveng 11:46, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: agreed. (offline wikieditor) ~~  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.197.253.33 (talk) 16:19, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What audio codec is used?

message: *Sprint's Forsee May Run Out of Time to Win Back Users
CaribDigita 23:42, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bloomberg reporting CEO may be about to be forced out. 

message: This likely does not deserve a mention or internal link in the article even if it is verified, but from the picture it looks like the Château de Montreuil-Bellay was used to tape the commercial where the guy is getting wireless internet from the middle of a body of water.--Jorfer (talk) 21:43, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commercial 

message: The subject says it all.
172.131.214.151 (talk) 00:48, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sprint Logo was edited, and is not accurate. 

message: *Sprint Corporation->Sprint Nextel Cut/paste moved on August 12 2005. Leave the post Aug 12 edits(redirects and vandalism) at Sprint Corporation. -- Cmjc80 (talk)
**This one should not be done. The Sprint Nextel article was based upon Sprint Corporation, but also an older version of Sprint Nextel that existed before August 2005. These versions were inadvertently deleted in a previous merge and never restored. I have restored them, so now one can see that the two articles existed simultaneously and were edited apart from each other before 14 Aug, 2005. Therefore, these separate threads should not be merged together. Very good catch. I've been impressed with your finds. Cool Hand Luke 07:43, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: History merge request

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message: I corrected the case in several instances to WiMAX (from WiMax and Wimax), added the hyphen to Wi-Fi, and checked proper link to the articles (that no longer redirect from the incorrect form).
The 4G article describes the ITU criteria for 4G and notes that service providers are being pretty loose with calling service deployments 4G even when they don't meet the 100Mb/s mobile / 1Gb/s fixed data rate criteria.  Are there public announcements stating that Sprint/Clearwire will be called 4G and that it will meet any standard criteria for 4G?  If not there probably should be a statement to this effect, at least until the industry agrees on what 4G actually is.  Jpgs (talk) 21:49, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  4G and WiMAX 

message: Looks like they got rid of their unlimited free incoming. I see no mention of it on their web-site.--Ron John (talk) 12:45, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Unlimited Free Incoming

message: Does anyone think the Treo 800w should have its own section like the Instinct? The 800w is an innovative smartphone exclsively carried by Sprint. Granted, it hasn't sold as well as the Instinct, but it still has sold very well amoung business users. Any thoughts? JakeH07 (talk) 21:27, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Treo 800w 

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message: I have Reorganized and cleaned up the article and removed lots of weasel words,Ad type Language,Etc.. I have also Removed/Moved Unneeded info. Remove The tag if you think it is Ready for it to be removed. Speer320 (talk) 23:59, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup Tag

message: This acronym is used in several places across this article. A couple of the companies bought out were called it, but the network which Sprint resells is also called PCS. What does it mean? It should be introduced somewhere. II | (t - c) 02:32, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  PCS acronym 

message: Sprint network starting to outgrow its customer base CaribDigita (talk) 08:35, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is notable.  Article says Sprint could be heading for financial ruin. 

message: The section Environmental record looks like a cut/paste or like somebody with a COI wrote it. It may just be me, but could somebody look into that. Thanks Griffinofwales (talk) 00:59, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  environmental record 

message: This article fails to discuss the controversy about Sprint "firing" customers who complained "too much".  It also fails to discuss why Sprint stock now is rated as junk.
4.249.3.167 (talk) 17:30, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  neutrality questionable 

message: I assume a company as large as Sprint Nextel must have some "dirty laundry," so to speak. The AT&T and Verizon pages have criticism sections, so why not this one? Ctrlaltdecimate (talk) 03:46, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: If you feel something is missing, I encourage you to to research the topic of concern and update the article text, including references from reputable sources. 71.212.93.127 (talk) 04:34, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  No criticism/controversy section? 

message: On century-links page it mentioned third largest telecommunications.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.65.109.3 (talk) 01:21, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: And here it says "third largest wireless" provider. CenturyLink is a land-line-only company, without a wireless component. So Sprint is the third largest wireless company, while CenturyLink is the third largest land line company (and the third largest overall by in terms of revenue).oknazevad (talk) 01:13, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Third largest telecommunication? 

message: What has Brown got to do with Sprint?  What's happened to this article? Tmangray (talk) 04:39, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Brown Telephone Co.?  I'm Baffled

message: The article claims that all GSM-capable devices sold by Sprint have an irrevocable SIM lock preventing their use on US GSM carriers.
This is not 100% true; the Google Nexus 5 (D820) is sold by Sprint, with a subsidy, as well as directly by Google. Both versions are identical and work on Sprint's CDMA/LTE network, as well as on US GSM networks like T-Mobile. You can find many reports of users switching their Nexus 5 between Sprint and T-mobile without defeating any kind of SIM-lock.
This may be a special case, because Google clearly used its influence to prevent carriers from altering the device's hardware or software in any way, but I still think it should be noted as an exception. —Moxfyre (ǝɹʎℲxoɯ | contrib) 06:59, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nexus 5 isn't SIM-locked 

message: Under History, under the first section "Foundation and early years", the first line reads "Sprint Corporation traces its origins to the Brown Telephone Company, which was founded in 1899 by Cleyson Brown and Jacob Brown to deploy telephone service to the rural area around Abilene, KS". This is probably accurate, but clicking the link to Jacob Brown sends me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Brown, which is an article about a man who died in 1828, well before he supposedly co-founded the Brown Telephone Company. I'm not sure if there is an article on the right Jacob Brown, but I thought that this was probably wrong.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.23.204.187 (talk) 17:12, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing that out. Since there are no articles yet for either founder, I've removed the optimistic wikilinks for both of them. Anastrophe (talk) 19:23, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong Jacob Brown 

message: The Spark part of the page needs help.  
Background: LTE is an all-IP network, abandoning the traditional telephony paradigm.  VoLTE is the part of the IMS suite of gigantic applications that will allow for LTE telephones to function like traditional telephony equipment.  That is, have telephone numbers and DTMF tones.  Phone manufacturers are now starting to simplify things on the RF end to make room to be more complicated again.  Since LTE was rolled out as a data-only add-on to 3G (before VoLTE was operable), manufacturers included the ability for two radios to operate simultaneously, one for 3G voice, and one for LTE data.  It's called SVLTE for Simultaneous Voice & LTE.  Responding to pressure from carriers, I presume, or the drive to simplify now that the opportunity is here it seems now manufacturers are making phones that operate one radio instead of 2 concurrently, and it's going to be the new thing going forward. (better for battery, anyhow).  3G AND LTE has become 3G OR LTE.
Result: you can't make a call and use cellular data simultaneously unless that call is going through the same radio your data is: enter VoLTE.
Therefore, how does it follow that not being able to surf the web while talking to someone (??) becomes a disadvantage of the NETWORK?  The network, pre during or post-Spark, can communicate with a phone that has 2 radios, one 3G, one LTE concurrently, as written about the Galaxy S3.  It's a disadvantage of the phone itself or Sprint not having VoLTE operational at this time.  As it stands, the section is misleading and sounds like Sprint's making things worse.  The truth is the industry is pushing/moving to LTE-only phones (IMS is an understated privacy issue, but notasoapbox), and Sprint is behind the curve because they don't have VoLTE deployed yet.  Additionally, because it says "Spark-enabled phones" but leaves out the fact that VoLTE will effectively replace SVLTE, or that's the direction all phones are going, or that only using one radio saves battery, is misleading.
The section's text also contained technology-related statements that were misleading but I made them more accurate.  This "disadvantage" applies to everybody on any US carrier that has a Galaxy S6, for example.  The actual disadvantage of the network is that once fully effected, it will give Sprint reason to raise prices (on the basis of improved value).  The *problem* is that Sprint doesn't yet have VoLTE like the other carriers.  (If Verizon didn't have VoLTE already, we'd see the same complaints from Verizon Galaxy S6 owners; some people that don't want to use VoLTE might complain but that's probably not noteworthy)
Might be better to have what I propose: <ceo volte sentence>.  VoLTE will, among other things, address the complaints that some people {cite} have made about newer phones on Sprint's network that don't support SVLTE (make wikilink to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE_%28telecommunication%29#Voice_calls) by providing both voice and cellular data services simultaneously over LTE.
I think that it would be better to nuke that paragraph from orbit, save for the last sentence.  Mention of the problem can be salvaged, (although it should be in a handset or volte deployment section) but before IP changes something on a big name (especially changing something "negative"), IP wants to make a statement of intentions and submit the arguments defending the actions thereof.  IP wants to disclaim: IP's closest telephony tie is of being a Verizon customer with a single personal line and hates all telecoms equally - but some more than others.
158.222.171.203 (talk) 03:00, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  is this where I put that thing...  although it's a very small section, the spark section needs help 

message: I was looking through sprint and they seem to have marketing program called sprint good works. It pretty much talks about sprint's corporate social responsibility. would this be considered public outreach or marketing?172.249.28.15 (talk) 06:44, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Would i put sprints "good works" program under marketing?

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: should it be its own section? Instead of being part of sprint's wireless operations? along with sprint's discontinued networks?108.184.116.128 (talk) 23:39, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Defunct brands? 

message: Can we get rid of sprint's defunct network. i see no point of posting about their iden/wimax technology  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.184.98.23 (talk) 01:28, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Defunct networks 

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message: Per SEC filings of TMobile USA, Sprint Corporation is still an active subsidiary and has not been merged into T-Mobile. That may change at some point, but the legal Sprint Corp is still alive. That should be in the article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:200:4580:D350:9B5:C54B:B481:8B2A (talk) 07:29, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Concur on all points, especially the need for updated citations. - BilCat (talk) 18:46, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sprint is still an active subsidiary of T-Mobile