XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android   
   From: scharf.steven@geemail.com   
      
   On 8/7/2020 1:36 PM, JF Mezei wrote:   
   > On 2020-08-07 15:59, nospam wrote:   
   >   
   >>> The only virtue of Nextel was the PTT feature. Shutting it down   
   >>> immediately, without an adequate replacement, would have been bad.   
   >>   
   >> which is why they waited to shut it down.   
   >   
   >   
   > You don't bvuy a money losing service and delay integrating it for years   
   > during which the money losing service now drains your own money and   
   > doesn't generate any return on investment for you to pay back the debts   
   > of buying it.   
      
   Don't know why you believe that Nextel was  "money-losing." It wasn't.   
   You can look at their 10K reports at the time.Go to   
    and search for   
   "Comprehensive income, net of income tax".   
      
   At the time Sprint purchased Nextel, Nextel had the highest ARPU of any   
   nationwide carrier, and Sprint was 2nd: "Back in 2004, when the merger   
   was proposed, Nextel’s ARPU was $69 while Sprint’s was $63, Verizon’s   
   $51.58 and Cingular’s $49.78."   
      
   The acquisition came shortly after Cingular acquired of AT&T Wireless,   
   and Sprint felt that Nextel would give them economies of scale, not   
   foreseeing the hemorrhaging of subscribers that would occur.   
      
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