Re: T-Mobile Sprint Merger: Say goodbye to scam calls
*Hemidactylus* <[email protected]>
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nospam <[email protected]> wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, Lewis > <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> Of course nothing stopped >>>>> Sprint and T-Mobile from making offers on these rural carriers. Sprint >>>>> did buy Nextel, which was a disaster. >>>> >>>> Didn't mean to imply that Nextel was a rural carrier, they were anything >>>> but! >> >>> it was a disaster for nextel. sprint killed it. >> >> Sprint, according to the people I knew on Nextel, utterly and completely >> fucked up everything about Nextel. At least one friend is still angry >> about that and is very annoyed that T-mobile and Spring are merging >> because he definitely doesn't want to ever give Sprint a dime. >> >> I had a work-provided Nextel at one point, I think. That was the service >> with the wealkie-talkie like mode on the phones, right? > > sure was. > Most obnoxious thing ever though people talking in public places in speaker mode comes close. Didn’t those Nextel abominations beep or chirp? I recall hearing them make their way through a building. BTW Winston Cup racing became verboten and became Nextel then Sprint. Sprint customers got the perk of real time track telemetry during a NASCAR event.