Most of Nextel’s top execs left within a year of the merger and Nextel went from around 20 million to 8 million in half a decade of Sprint/Nextel slowly bleeding to death.

Sprint’s applied some prepaid bandages but they continue to bleed. They are shrinking so consistently that they no longer say how good they did but how less much less worse they did then last time.

Sprint is a slowly sinking ship and no amount of prepaid is going to save it.

Currently only 20% of their customers are on prepaid. If they increase that proportion, the most volatile churn prone segment of their user base will go up and profits will go down.

Sprint has to get steady on its postpaid before relying on its prepaid to save their ailing hides. Prepaid alone can’t do it.

And Sprint has a major identity crisis.
Like how the Nextel merger created confusion, they intend to introduce at least one more, maybe two brands within six months.

They’ve acquired Virgin Mobile and have let it rot there for months and put a ton of effort into almost dead Boost cdma.

I really wonder what the hell they’re thinking when they give other non Sprint owned mvnos better deals then their giving their own child, Virgin Mobile. You can get unlimited talk/text/web on Platinum Tel for $60. On VM, even at $70, you only get talk/text and 50 megs web.

Liberty Wireless, who briefly made headlines with an extremely short lived byod plan killed by Sprint has unlimited everything for $50.

Virgin Mobile hasn’t added a new handset since Sept. 2009.

Sprint doesn’t know what the hell they’re doing. They will lose whatever advantage Boost iden’s three spectacular quarters gave them because the execs running that company are simply clueless dolts. Like the guys at Motorola and Palm.