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Merger?

  • Please do not edit the Sprint Logo until the merger is complete. 00:03, 24 June 2005‎ User:208.24.179.27
  • After the merger, this entire article is going to have to be renamed. "Sprint" as an individual entity will no longer exist. Is that simple enough to do? 23:37, 28 June 2005‎ User:Jimbinford
  • The article can be renamed, however the new company's name is "Sprint" (marketed as "Sprint - Together with Nextel") so I'm not sure much is changing. 09:02, 11 July 2005‎ User:24.5.220.47
  • Deleted buyblue.org link, as it is partisan and inappropriate for Wikipedia. 21:23, 17 July 2005‎ User:4.245.3.73
  • If people from UMKC want to be taken seriously, they should learn to spell. 21:49, 30 July 2005‎ User:Quizzoid

History re-worked

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)

4G Status

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)

Sprint Returning to OP

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)

http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/488335.html

Too much corporate copy

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)Rohny

Problems with Patcat88 over editing

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)

Sprint Nextel Wiki reorganize

I just updated this Wiki. Info was scattered all over the place. A bunch of the info was listed under the wrong topics, so I reorganized it. I tried to keep it simple. Please don't restore it to the old profile. But please feel free to update it to better reflect the topics.

the2ndflood


I don't know whos bright idea it was to list info on that topic, but I will report it to the mods next time it happens. With identity theft running rampant, some want to list ways to help them out?!?! DO NOT POST INFO THAT CAN CAUSE OUR ACCOUNTS TO BE HACKED! That topic was just stupid to post!

72.150.114.173 20:43, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps an equitable compromise would be noting that news but leaving out the toll free number and the blogs that have posted that info? Still, I doubt widespread hacking will occur. Fabricationary 22:47, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
If you have a problem with it, take it up with Sprint. The information is already out. I tried the number; it appears to be disconnected. Again, your problem with with Sprint, not Wikipedia. SDC 23:03, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't think the info needs to be there at all. T-Mobile doesnt have any mention of the OTA Sidekick hacks, or for that matter ANY negative info. None of the carriers have their privacy issues listed. My problem is with YOU, Not Sprint. This story was not widely released. Most people I have spoken with have never even heard of it. So why is this info needed? If the problem was corrected, then why does it need to be listed here? Are you going to list every single problem, every single carrier is going through? This looks like a hose job against Sprint by people that don't care for the company. And the major problem with this story, is the fact that it is step by step. Anyone can read how to do it and find a new number to do it with. If you are going to list this story, then post ALL STORIES ON ALL CARRIERS. Don't be bias. 68.19.231.39 01:08, 11 July 2006 (UTC) Joliee

Do others here think it is worth it to mention that privacy scandal where someone could actually steal phone/phone caller information of *not* only Sprint but also Cingular, Verizon and T-Mobile customers? A term called pre-texting.
IT was reported on CNN as well when the host Wolf Blitzer of the Situation Room bought his own phone records Transcript -- ( http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/13/sitroom.02.html ) .
I think it was a big deal. Congress was going enact a law over it ( http://news.com.com/2100-1037_3-6047462.html ) because you could get information from any US cell phone provider.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1917364,00.asp http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1917863,00.asp http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13466406/

CaribDigita 04:11, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

This is what I was saying. Every wireless carrier out there has these problems, but we shouldnt use this place to point out every single one. When the company becomes aware of the problem, then corrects it, the issue is no longer an issue and should be left to end. That topic was more of an attack on Sprint then anything else. And by posting details on out to commit the fraud, you are just making it worse for everyone.

Leave these issues off of this site, unless you are going to make a list of every problem, for every carrier.

68.19.199.169 23:30, 11 July 2006 (UTC) Joilee


Your right! I just found out that on Verizon FIOS, your static IP# will have your name and address listed on it.... These companies just----- don't get it! { link } CaribDigita 21:51, 14 July 2006 (UTC)


I thought this topic was finished? Sprint corrected the problem, so why does it still need to be listed? When a company finds a problem and corrects it, then whatelse is there to to? How can this info be helpful to anyone now? Let's post current, vaild info.

CDMACORE 20:16, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Tagged for Cleanup

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)


Sprint World Headquarters....

After further research, it turns out that the Corporate Headquarters for Sprint is in Reston VA and the WORLD Headquarters are in Overland Park KS. (This information comes from their website). The overland park campus, finished in 2001, cannot be for enginering only- if anyone has seen the campus it is gigantic and cost more than 100 million dollars to build. It wouldn't make sense for a company to "waste" that money away- it was only built 5 years ago. They have also made a deal with Kansas City, since it is the site of their headquarters, to sponsor and donate money to have their name be on the New Arena being constructed there- the major reason being that Kansas City is a VERY important part of their operations.

While I agree with you that the Overland Park campus is large and important, there's no way the company would have built it after the Nextel acquisition. Even before Nextel came into the picture and the company moved its headquarters to the Reston, VA, area, not a small percentage of the office space in Overland Park was completely unoccupied. The campus was built with regional consolidation in mind (bringing in smaller offices in the KC area), but that's not likely to happen now. In the end, what people call the two campuses doesn't amount to much. The headquarters are where the CEO resides, and that's Reston. I speculate that the KC campus will diminish in importance in the future, with more of the space being leased out to shared tenants. I'm sure they'd love to have everyone at home in the Reston area, but there isn't enough office space in that area and it would cost more to move everyone than it's really worth.

Location of Sprint world headquarters

I am a native resident of Kansas City, Missouri and I know that the World Headquarters building (actually campus) is located in Overland Park, KS. Since my word is not good enough to back this up, I have provided the exact words of the web site that state the location of Sprint's World Headquarters- it says nothing about the Virginia location. My source is: http://www.sprint.com/hr/worldheadquarters.html also http://www.sprint.com/sprint/fastfacts/campus/ and http://www.sprint.com/sprint/fastfacts/overview/index.html.

Each source shows the Sprint Campus in Overland Park as the world headquarters, and since it was founded there it should be common sense that it would not be in Virginia. However I did see one source under investor relations in the phone sales department that showed corporate headquarters in Reston, VA which was the former Nextel headquarters buidling- so now probably just the personal phone sale's compnay of Sprint's headquarters. But the entire corporate as a whole is located in Overland Park. Since only one source is able to back up the Reston location and 3 back up the Overland Park location (plus that site didn't even call Reston their world headquarters- just "corporate headquarters") the Overland Park location is definatley still the World Headquarters unless it is announced from Sprint itself. Also since these sources are from the Sprint web site directly, no other source would be valid unless it is from the government records or something of a similar matter.

I'm going to put this issue to rest once and for all. I work for the company. The headquarters are in Reston, VA.
2001 Edmund Halley Drive
Reston, VA 20191
(703) 433-4000 (That is a Virginia area code.)
http://www.investorguide.com/stock-profile.cgi?ticker=S

Donahue and Forsee

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)

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.

Removed SBC Communications as a competitor, as the deal has closed and the new company will be called AT&T, Inc. User: quizzoid

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)


Forsee was an idiot. Donahue was a God for telecommunications. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.171.194.170 (talk) 04:34, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Location of headquarters

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)


I believe it to be in Virgina as well. I think they're in the process of changing everything on the websites to Virginia. If you goto Sprint.com and click on "Contact Us"

it reads (on the bottom left):

Corporate Headquarters; 2001 Edmund Halley Drive; Reston, VA 20191; 703-433-4000

On Hoovers.com (Which is a part of Dun & Bradstreet) a very reputable site when dealing with corporate and financial info:

On there Sprint's legal address is listed as Virginia as well. Ofcourse this may not be truely settled until the first 10-K report comes out, but I believe it is in Virginia as well. I think only the older sites which haven't changed still say KS. For example the Copyright notice says KS still.

If you notice now the 2nd 3rd links suggested above have since been taken down from the webserver.

CaribDigita 03:29, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Erick Sanchez?

  • 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. [1]. 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)
  • I heard that Erick Sanchez used to be a VP or something. I'm not too sure.

Just to let others know.

  • 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)


Since I work for the company and know the key people in the organization. I believe that Len Lauer should be added to the key people section. His is currently the COO. If not I believe you should add the new CFO.

  • Agreed, I've added Len Lauer as he is currently the COO and was only bumped from CEO to allow for Donahue to carry over his leadership position from Nextel. He clearly is one of the core leadership of the company.

Leaked photos of the new dualed Motorola iDEN-CDMA phones.

{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 [2]. 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)

Name?

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)

Founding Date?

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) According to Sprint themselves, the founding date is 1899. Check here: http://www.sprint.com/companyinfo/history/ I do not see how it could have been 1898... a typo?

Article Split

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)

  • What do others think? Is Nextel historically significant enough to warrant having a Pre-merger encylopedia entry on NEXTEL and SPRINT as well?

[3] and putting "NEXTEL" under Cat: defunct companies in the United States?

CaribDigita 16:02, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

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)
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)

Sprint Nextel Competitors

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)

Location of Sprint Headquarters - Again

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
2330 Shawnee Mission Parkway
Westwood, KS

2001-2004

Sprint World Headquarters
6200 Sprint Parkway
Overland Park, KS

2005-

Corporate Headquarters
2001 Edmund Halley Drive
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)

Why they make it soo confusing is beyond me. *Boggle-boggle* :-) CaribDigita 16:12, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
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)

Ambiguity over the correct acronym for SPRINT (if any)

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:

"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."

  • 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)

NPR's Melissa Block has conducted an interview in which interviewee "Brijet Neff" states that SPRINT derives from a winning contest submission to name the company "Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Networking Telophony" and that "Telephony according to Brijet Neff gave way to telecommunications, and the name Sprint was born.", Melissa Block. The transcript begins by stating: "Melissa Block explores the long family history of the companies that comprise what became Sprint. It all began in Kansas in the late 19th century and came to include a long distance system created by the Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telecommunications, or SPRINT." http://www.npr.org/2012/10/15/162963607/sprint-born-from-railroad-telephone-businesses — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.0.192.69 (talk) 07:28, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Sprint / Sprint Corporation or Sprint Nextel

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)

Sprint and Nextel should separate. Let them be on their own. I think Nextel neede Sprint popularity.

In additon, the text "The company outsources its customer service operations to Convergys, the world's leading customer care outsourcing company." Is no longer accurate, as Nextel still has contracts with ACS and TeleTech (at least) for customer care. If I had could find a reference, I'd update THAT myself, but I can't.

Stockholders and pitchmen edit

Do stockholders routinely remove any negative information from this site in order to pump the stock price up? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 146.74.225.90 (talk • contribs) .

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)

You might want to watch over the links page. IP address 206.106.225.161 restored that my-nextel site, then after it was removed again, 4 other links were deleted in what seems like retaliation. Only 1 of them being considered a spam link. I agree that those links you deleted were not helpful. But I don't consider mobiledia.com, phonescoop.com, and pcsintel.com spam.

CDMACORE 20:07, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Again, a simple list of phones with "buy now" links and clickthrus to resellers is not acceptable. You can easily see a list of phone on the company's site. Please desist, or discuss your reasons for continually adding the links here. Kuru talk 00:30, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Kuru I see your point and agree with it. That other site was just a link page selling devices and services. But I don't think Phonescoop.com and Mobiledia.com count as spam. I just added those sites to compromise with the user adding the My Nextel page. If that user has nothing to do with My-nextel.com, and is only after device info, then Phonescoop or mobiledia.com would fit that bill. If they are trying to add their own seller web page, then this method would prove that as well. Because they would continue to add that spam link and further action could be taken.

CDMACORE 03:48, 1 August 2006 (UTC) 03:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

mynextel.com used to be Nextel-owned, and a customer service tool... seems to be cybersquatted now. Still shouldn't be here, as sprint.com and nextel.com have alwasy had the exact same login functionality on their homepage as mynextel.com ever did.

Sprint commercial actor

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)

Outsourcing of customer service for Sprint

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)

Sprint loses 300,000 customers in Q1, 2006. Plans layoffs.

I'm going to bail too. I have battle-fatigue after trying to get this company to provide decent service for over a year.

CaribDigita 01:30, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I have found Sprint's service to be sick . Give Sprint time. They have no offering.

74.241.169.98 03:54, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Sprint Corporation (1899-2005) and NEXTEL Communications

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)


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)

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)
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)

You can't come in here and change the links after they have been here for years. We can compromise. A bunch of the links can be deleted, but important links should stay. I am so sick of people that have never, ever added to the Sprint Nextel profile, that come in here to delete info. Instead of adding to the profile. Wiki's are a source of info, and every link that was added helps back that up. You are the only one that has a problem with the links, and I suspect that you are a Cingular or Verizon fan. And you feel that helpful links for Sprint Nextel are bias.

Let's make a compromise. We can figure out what should stay and would should go. But deleting all of the imporant links, when you haven't been here for years like myself updating the info, is completely wrong.

70.156.1.228 01:19, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

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)

The listing of external links for the Sprint Nextel article has been growing for some time, but without any direction (and, in most cases, without any need). I'd like to try and build some consensus on where we should be at with the external links section, and I think one idea I get from WP:NOT#LINK is that less is more. I think the nineteen links already removed contribute little to the article, so I'm going to start with an example of what I think could be swapped in once the article is unlocked, if there's consensus. I'll also take a stab at reasoning behind the ones I'm omitting. See below, and please comment early and often!  :) Justen 10:03, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Removals and reasons

Already linked from the Boost Mobile article.
Already linked from the Embarq article.
Provides very little information, of limited relevance to most likely article readers.
Not really WP:V or WP:RS, which is probably why it isn't a source for the article itself.
Really of very limited use for almost any article reader.

Additions and other comments

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)

ADSL without Landline Telephone Service

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).

Sometimes the term "Naked DSL" is also used. Verizon for one is a company that is still foot dragging about offering this. They still try to force you to buy Telephone if you have ADSL. And if you shut off their phone service they will disconnect your DSL from whoever you have. E.g. if you have AOL Highspeed, Earthlink, etc. etc. they will also disconnect your DSL for not subscribing to Verizon phone service anymore. Then Earthlink will charge you to reconnect. I wrote to the FCC already about this as a matter of complaint. CaribDigita 20:59, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Requesting an edit

{{editprotected}} 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 (TV series)|24]]? Right now, it links to the year AD 24. /Ludde23 Talk Contrib 17:48, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Articles on Wikipedia aren't supposed to be locked this long... Who's falling asleep at the switch. CaribDigita 17:58, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

done. CMummert · talk 17:59, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

SunCom

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)

Requesting edit

The founding date of Sprint Nextel should be included in the corporate infobox as such:

1899[1]

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)

References

  1. ^ The 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.

Time to Unprotect

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)

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)

Sprint to begin phasing out the NEXTEL name. (again?)

Sprint to effectively kill Nextel brand

Posted Jun 27th 2007 7:28PM by Brian White Filed under: Sprint-Nextel, Misc

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/06/27/sprint-to-effectively-kill-nextel-brand/

Be on the lookout this article might need a rename.

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)

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What audio codec is used?

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)

agreed. (offline wikieditor) ~~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.197.253.33 (talk) 16:19, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

CDMA uses an enhanced variable rate CODEC, called EVRC. Depending on the handset, the codec is different. Most use EVRC nowadays, but the original Sony 600 used a 13k vocoder. The lowest codec offered is 8k. EVRC is used to provide 13k quality while speaking, and throttles back to 8k or less during the silence. Hope this helps. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.114.231.201 (talk) 01:29, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Bloomberg reporting CEO may be about to be forced out.

CaribDigita 23:42, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Commercial

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)

Sprint Logo was edited, and is not accurate.

The subject says it all. 172.131.214.151 (talk) 00:48, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

History merge request

  • 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)

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4G and WiMAX

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)

Unlimited Free Incoming

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)

Treo 800w

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)JakeH07

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Cleanup Tag

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)

PCS acronym

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)

It Means Personal Communications Service Speer320 (talk) 02:42, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

This is notable. Article says Sprint could be heading for financial ruin.

Sprint network starting to outgrow its customer base CaribDigita (talk) 08:35, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Sprint's shares are under $1.65. It could face a stock market de-listing if its shares drops below $1 for too long. CaribDigita (talk) 03:12, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

environmental record

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)

neutrality questionable

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)

corrections to the early dial-around writeup?

The article states that, to use SPRINT's alternative service for long distance, "A customer was required to have a Private Line connection to one of these switches in order to use the service, and paid an access fee per Private Line. The customer was then billed at 2.6 cents per tenth of a minute increment."

- I, and the trucking company I worked with, signed up with SPRINT in the late 1970s or possibly very early 1980s. They gave out cards with the local SPRINT dial up number, which answered with a second dial tone. You then punched in your ID and the number you wanted.

I haven't yet corrected the article pending further discussion...

No criticism/controversy section?

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)

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)

Third largest telecommunication?

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)

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)

Brown Telephone Co.? I'm Baffled

What has Brown got to do with Sprint? What's happened to this article? Tmangray (talk) 04:39, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Nexus 5 isn't SIM-locked

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)

Wrong Jacob Brown

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)

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)

is this where I put that thing... although it's a very small section, the spark section needs help

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_(telecommunication)#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)


Would i put sprints "good works" program under marketing?

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)

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