http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/ Engadget Comments for Sprint rumored to be considering Vonage purchase http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/Apr 17th 2007 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/
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I don't understand their reasoning. "Lets buy a total failure and inherit their legal troubles so we can sink millions into this useless venture right before they crash and burn".]]>Apr 17th 2007 8:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/Apr 17th 2007 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/Apr 17th 2007 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/
lets pretend that we are 5 years into the future:

2007 - Sprint buys the nations largest VOIP provider
2008 - Sprint begins limited rollout of WiMax
2009 - Sprint begins rollout of WiMax Highspeed
2010 - Sprint offers the SPRINT TOTAL PACKAGE giving you highspeed mobile data and voice and video

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WiPhones (Pardon the pun) could even operate in foriegn countries Sprint doesn't provide service in, guaranteeing customers can spend money with Sprint anywhere. Granted, if Sprint was feeling evil, they could charge more for those with foreign IPs.

The only problem I see is making it work like a cell phone so you can switch broadcast sources without breaking the call. WiMax is supposed to fix that, though.]]>Apr 17th 2007 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/Apr 17th 2007 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/
why ... well they got the customer based from nextel and then (for about the same price of purchase - over 10 years) is selling the old iden system ... leasing rather to the Homeland security folks)

Tim - cross network call control has been fixed a longtime ago using SIP (tmobile uses it out here for the WIFI-GSM phones)]]>Apr 18th 2007 2:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/
And last I checked sprint just lost $20billion worth of government contracts to competitors: http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/03/30/sprint-loses-20-billion-government-contract-to-rivals/

And the really crappy thing is sprint has to be spending a TON of money maintaining and even upgrading a second network, when on the cdma side of things they have one of the best networks of any carrier. The real trick is getting all the iden users on cdma without pissing everyone off, not an easy task.]]>Apr 18th 2007 2:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/Apr 17th 2007 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/
Agreed. They just laid off 5000 retail employees to "improve" customer service. ]]>Apr 17th 2007 9:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/Apr 17th 2007 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/Apr 17th 2007 10:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/
Sprint has a keen eye for mergers, maybe they should take a look at Chrysler while they're at it.]]>Apr 17th 2007 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/
Sprint is a crappy service (especially reception) and they already bought out another crappy service aka Nextel. So, now theyre goin for a crapola trifecta.]]>Apr 18th 2007 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/Apr 18th 2007 8:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/Apr 18th 2007 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/Apr 30th 2007 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/sprint-rumored-to-be-considering-vonage-purchase/
Story: http://www.itworld.com/Net/3303/070418verizonpatent/]]>Apr 19th 2007 8:35AM