Bad news for Sprint...

[jimd144]

Originally Posted by CenFlo

Sprint may not stay afloat but they won't go totally under. If anything they'll be bought out, stripped down and the money making parts will be absorbed and/or bought by capital investment co's or other wireless carriers.

That is what Chapter 7/11 is all about. No reason to buy out a CDMA carrier.

Originally Posted by CenFlo

Keep in mind the FCC will only let one carrier (think VZW) get so big before they step in a regulate them out the yin/yang. Many of you peeps here aren't old enough to remember AT&T's divestiture back in the 80's.

AT&T is plenty big, in fact it is larger than Verizon in subscribers, so that argument is moot.

[CenFlo]

Originally Posted by jimd144

That is what Chapter 7/11 is all about. No reason to buy out a CDMA carrier.

My point is/was that they won't just "go under" They wouldn't be the first communications company to operate in the red and look for a potential suitor.

AT&T is plenty big, in fact it is larger than Verizon in subscribers, so that argument is moot.

And they got that way by??? Mergers, joint ventures, name changes and acquiring other companies + their subscribers, right? Moot, I think not.

Just like in all business, if you need something you either buy it or build it. Customer bases operate under the same premise. You can market to and bring customers or you can acquire them through other means. Same with physical network and capacity. You either build it out or buy it already built out.