Comments on: Japanese Carrier SoftBank Pays $20.1 Billion to take 70% Ownership of Sprint

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:53:00 +0000

I’d like to see sprint get those mobile speeds they have in Japan since a Japanese mobile company is buying them. Can you imagine 60-80 mbps that they get over there here,would make sprint very popular. Japan also gets live television on their phones too, hopefully the new owners can help sprint do something different and new.

By: SemahjLam

SemahjLam — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:47:00 +0000

thats why he said another

By: Chris Robson

Chris Robson — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:11:00 +0000

I hope this makes sprint good enough to abandon VZW!

By: Daniel Simpson

Daniel Simpson — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:19:00 +0000

You mean like T-Mobile and Verizon? The only American major carrier is AT&T and look at how awesome they are /s

By: Abe Villa

Abe Villa — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:24:00 +0000

I’ve been monitoring sprint closely in the past 8 months or so. And I kinda figured about 2 months ago that sprint would begin to make some advancements. Here in Chicago when I picked the gnex I was sacrificing slow 3g and no lte. But I had high hopes, and I very well pleased with the now network. The 3g is has improved and lte… Well very excited! I get 25mbps up and 12mbps down. I left Verizon, best decision ever made.

By: a.youth.in.Asia

a.youth.in.Asia — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:20:00 +0000

CA-CHING! coming from a company named SoftBank makes me think Sprint just got a bailout or a loan.

By: OnlyNexus

OnlyNexus — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:18:00 +0000

Yay, another US company with majority foreign ownership

By: Mallahet

Mallahet — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000

Add decent global rates into the mix, and they can have my money.

By: jcardona

jcardona — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:49:00 +0000

And once they get up to par with ATT & Vzw, you can expect the same type of pricing and data plans. That’s just how it goes in the business world. They won’t do it now because they’d be shooting themselves in the foot.

By: chris125

chris125 — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:41:00 +0000

Well it will take awhile to build the network plus at first they want to sway customers over so I can see them keeping unlimited until they become a real threat to the likes of att and verizon, then that would be when they start acting like those 2.

By: chris125

chris125 — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:33:00 +0000

I hope this and the tmo/metro merger do that for both of those companies. I mean competition is a good thing especially if the big 2 start losing customers because of it, maybe then they wont be so greedy

By: chris125

chris125 — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:32:00 +0000

I hope this is what sprint needs to better their network and become a competitor to the big 2. Can’t wait to see what/if softbank can do anything to help sprint

By: Cindy Leavell

Cindy Leavell — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:31:00 +0000

Finally real service …

By: Bigwavedave25

Bigwavedave25 — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:25:00 +0000

Agreed. If more cash means more towers/coverage than at least there will be a good alternative out there other then AT&T. That was my only problem with Sprint when I had them… if you got to far from an interstate you were screwed for reception.

By: David Arensdorff

David Arensdorff — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:20:00 +0000

I was thinking the same thing! All Sprint needs is a good swift kick in the ass to get themselves in gear. Hopefully, this is the kick they were waiting for! Can’t wait to see what new developments Sprint has in store…