POW! Sprint kills T-Mobile US bid ... BAM! CEO Hesse is out

Sprint has confirmed industry rumors by announcing the departure of its CEO, and has abandoned its pursuit of T-Mobile US. The telco said Wednesday morning that big cheese Dan Hesse will leave the biz and hand the reins to Brightstar CEO Marcelo Claure. Hesse will leave the position effective Monday, August 11. Claure …

[Someone Else]

"Total chaos at Sprint"

That might just be the reason I switch....

[Frank N. Stein]

Legere may have a point. I'm trying to think of what Hesse did that did any good for Sprint customers during his tenure. All I can think of is the unlimited everything plan. If Sprint didn't have unlimited everything, I wouldn't still be a customer. The coverage is better now than last summer, but there are advantages with T-Mobile when traveling to Europe, that Sprint doesn't have. NO ROAMING FEES. Hmmm....

[Bucky 2]

Thank Christ!

We left Sprint in favor of T-Mobile a couple years ago when their business practice of selling off their towers in our area started negatively impacting our connectivity.

I wasn't looking forward to having them do the same thing to our T-Mobile service.