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skylerloth 09/12/2009 12:57 AM Report
Wow, My respect for Daniel Hesse and Sprint has doubled after watching that interview.
Sprint actually understands the telecom industry and what needs to happen. I think that with Hesse as CEO, Sprint will eventually stop losing subscribers and start gaining market share.
He has realized the battery issue perfectly. Now if only we can fix it!
Daniel Hesse is a smart man. I hope Sprint thrives in the future.
The only additional convincing I need to switch from T-Mobile to Sprint is a 4G Palm device or a 4G Android device.
A BIG factor to get subscribers to switch carriers is the selection of phones. Obviously the Iphone has proven this despite AT&T's recent networking woes.
REMant 09/11/2009 02:14 PM Report
Never owned one of these things and won't as long as they cost so much more than a "land line." I am always amazed to see ppl standing in a supermarket asking someone on one what to buy there, even more if it regards which is the better buy. On the whole I think the more talking, the less thinking and planning is being done, tho I suppose that like writing, talk serves some purpose in thought, however, you could always talk to yourself. Suppose that, instead of traffic lights, or as now in some parts of Europe, no lights at all, ppl could communicate at intersections... Flat-fees were used by traditional phone cos to build mkts, but at the expense of those least interested in using the service, and so the poor generally subsidized the rich. I thought it interesting that it has taken the cell phone ppl so long to come to this. Flat-fees, are, I believe, still seldom seen in Europe, where I think ppl have a greater sense of fairness overall. I'm sure some would argue that they are necessary to desirable change, but I have my doubts about that. A far cheaper way to find out the time, btw, is to look at somebody else's clock. But everyone having a ready camera nowadays is no doubt a deterence to misbehavior. I think tho that the bottom will drop out of this mkt before too long, as it did with PCs. On the whole I'm a firm believer in late adoption. What the industry needs is a way to transmit enough juice along with the signal to power the hardware without irradiating everyone in the process. Voice or speech recognition would seem to me to be a useful addition so you could text without the keypad.