http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/sprints-new-ceo-to-slash-several-thousand-more-jobs-this-year/ Engadget Comments for Sprint's new CEO to slash several thousand more jobs this year? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/sprints-new-ceo-to-slash-several-thousand-more-jobs-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/sprints-new-ceo-to-slash-several-thousand-more-jobs-this-year/
They usually start off with a "reassuring" speech to the company. I'd say more but you'd probably get more info from Dilbert slides.
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In my opinion, if you haven't figured it out yet, I think they should just behead Nextel and focus on getting some of Verizon's market share and therefore go on with the future of WiMAX. If anyone else thinks that Nextel should say, please reply.]]>Jan 14th 2008 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/sprints-new-ceo-to-slash-several-thousand-more-jobs-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/sprints-new-ceo-to-slash-several-thousand-more-jobs-this-year/most folks want/need a phone that makes good calls and decent battery life
thats why most phones are in one of three tiers, basic, mid-level, and hi-end phones
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Regarding Nextel, I'm told by a former Sprint employee that the Nextel value proposition to Sprint was built around two things:

1) Nextel held a large percentage of the WiMax spectrum licensing that they're banking their data network future on, and

2) The large number of commercial accounts that used the iDen push-to-talk functionality. Apparently, they're a very lucrative customer segment vs. us high-maintenance and fickle consumers.



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Sure Lay off employee, that will help moral and reflect good on the company...yeah, right!

Instead of lay-offs, they should have them work on the wi-max project...try to absorb them as much as possible...instead of hiring new people...no wait...just lay off older employees with experience ...and hire new people at half the cost and retrain them...

Sprint Corporate Idiots!!!]]>Jan 23rd 2008 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/sprints-new-ceo-to-slash-several-thousand-more-jobs-this-year/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/sprints-new-ceo-to-slash-several-thousand-more-jobs-this-year/
1. MAKE AN INVESTMENT: Get the upper hand by taking the huge discount and pay bottom dollar for a heavily discounted highend phone/pda and take good care of it. Then if your carrier ticks you off and you REALLY want to leave you can always EBAY the phone and pay your ETF. You win!

2. BE PATIENT: Don't call customer service. Email CSRs through the companies website (contact us). They're well informed and don't BS you cause they actually know the answers or have time to find them before they email you back. Honestly, I've gotten responses within and hour, 24 at the most. If you don't like what they say (you wil most times) just hit reply and start a dialouge.

This way you don't feel like a victimized when your crappy cheap phone dies and you have to jump through life-dedicating hoops to get another at an affordable price. And you get quick reliable answers to your telecommunications questions. What more you want from your cell phone company?


Must disclose: I've been a Sprint customer since forever, through the swiss cheese network and the 1 hour+ customer service waits/hang ups. And I even worked for them for a brief time.

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