Sprint Proposes $2 Billion 'Stimulus' Project

[iMONITOR]

Sprint Proposes $2 Billion 'Stimulus' Project
http://www.911dispatch.com/db/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2273&Itemid=1

 

[DaveNF2G]

That's not even a bailout. It's a request for a government subsidy to build a commercial radio service.

 

[iMONITOR]

That's not even a bailout. It's a request for a government subsidy to build a commercial radio service.

Amazing what people will try!
As common as apple pie!
The cost seems really high!
Talk about blue sky!
Amazing what Government will buy!
At least they didn't lie!
I'm certain this won't fly!
I'll bet their plans die!
The Government will just say bye!
Why?
Oh my!
All I can do is sigh!
But at least I didn't cry!

I must have been drinking with Warren!

 

[GTO_04]

The government is in a very giving mood. I say that the proposal will sail right through.

GTO_04

 

[unitcharlie]

Sorry, the only stimulus Sprint Nextel should receive is legal action forcing the prompt completion of their rebanding fiasco....

 

[datainmotion]

Sorry, the only stimulus Sprint Nextel should receive is legal action forcing the prompt completion of their rebanding fiasco....

Very good point. Nothing like a good old re-direct to distract us from what they should be doing right now.

 

[ohiodesperado]

This is yet another power play to turn the Iden system into a public safety / public service system, based on a cellular technology. This was the reason that Sprint bought Nextel to begin with and they are trying to save face with a poor business decision. Both the FCC and FEMA have told Sprint that there will be NO cellular based public safety systems.

What's funny is that they saw the rebanding agreements as the in road to roll out this iden based system. Again, it was based on a business plan that included using the current Iden infrastructure as the 'repeater system' and assuring interoperability. The only problem is that the FCC wasn't going to let it happen then and they are not going to let it happen now. This is the reason that Motorola dropped the iden patents and didn't bother to renew them. They would have been building radio systems that would be directly replacing there $1000 a piece P25 mobiles and megabuck repeaters. While this sounds like a win on either count, it's sort of stupid to think that a cell phone is going to cost as much as a P25 radio.

Now I need to preface all this with the fact I am a current Sprint / Nextel customer. I have tried the poor excuse for a PTT system that Verizon tried to pass off as a replacement for iDen. There simply is no comparison, iDen is head and shoulders over "The Network". I will remain with Nextel until they pull the plug on the iDen system, and at that point I will leave Sprint forever.

 

[poltergeisty]

Добрый вечер друзья и добро пожаловать в социализм в его самом прекрасном.

Не даже депрессия имела такой правительственный залог outs

 

[kb2vxa]

"I must have been drinking with Warren!"

That depends on which one of us, each line is NOT supposed to rhyme with the next. I suppose they don't teach poetry in school anymore, I learned iambic pentameter. (;->)

 

[poltergeisty]

Speaking of drunken poetry...

♫♪ "Oh say can you see... and the stimulus packages gleaming" ♫♪

http://www.gbjann.com/anthem/history.htm

"I must have been drinking with Warren!"

That depends on which one of us, each line is NOT supposed to rhyme with the next. I suppose they don't teach poetry in school anymore, I learned iambic pentameter. (;->)

I learned about haikus

Damn Liberals! :lol:

 

[AndersonMBK]

Now I need to preface all this with the fact I am a current Sprint / Nextel customer. I have tried the poor excuse for a PTT system that Verizon tried to pass off as a replacement for iDen. There simply is no comparison, iDen is head and shoulders over "The Network". I will remain with Nextel until they pull the plug on the iDen system, and at that point I will leave Sprint forever.

Are you referring to Verizon's old PTT system? I agree. Verizon's old PTT system was a disaster. They upgraded the whole PTT system a month or two ago. I saw it demonstrated and was impressed. The pricing was vey attractive as well for the service.