Charter sprints from rinky-dink Sprint hints

US cable monster Charter Communications says it has no interest in acquiring mobile carrier Sprint – at least for the time being. This after industry rumors suggested Charter was mulling making a bid for Sprint that would give the cableco an in‑house mobile provider. Charter is otherwise poised to launch a cellphone service …

[hotdamn]

Sp..ri....nt.... = CRAP

[Kevin McMurtrie]

Just go away already

Sprint:

- Counted extremely restrictive roaming agreements and inoperative towers when claiming the best coverage.

- Used long contracts and arbitration to lock in payments from customers stuck with defective towers and Sprint phones.

- Sold new "4G" WiMax phones on 2 year contracts even as they were abandoning WiMax.

- Sold their towers for a quick buck then leased them back.

- Made wild claims about how amazing an acquisition would be.

- Was purchased by SoftBank and continued to suck.

- Periodically terrorized T-Mobile customers with threats of a purchase.

- More wild claims about self-importance and the possibility of new amazing mergers, as if the SoftBank thing never happened.

[WolfFan]

Re: Just go away already

I've been a T-Mob customer for over a decade now. I was also a Sprint customer for the exact length of the contract, then I went to AT&T instead. (It says how bad Sprint is that AT&T is better...) I would have attached the Sprint number to T-Mob, but I prefer to have two different providers just in case. If Sprint had acquired T-Mob, my T-Mob phone would now be AT&T or Verizon. (Again, that shows how bad Sprint is, that Verizon is better...)

I don't use AT&T and T-Mob because I like them. I don't. They are, however, measurably better behaved than Sprint or Verizon. As those who have had occasion to complain about T-Mob and (especially!) AT&T know, the fact that those two are better-behaved says all that needs to be said about Sprint and Verizon.