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	<title>Comments on: SK Telecom Wants Sprint? Maybe Not</title>
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		<title>By: Joe</title>
		<link>http://gigaom.com/2008/07/16/sk-telecom-wants-sprint/#comment-888918</link>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Nice - now Accel can do something positive with the sad Helio space downstairs in Palo Alto.&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice &#8211; now Accel can do something positive with the sad Helio space downstairs in Palo Alto.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: ol' yeller</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;SK definitely knows how to run their business in Korea well, although there they own the dominant carrier.  If they were to buy Sprint they would be ruthless in thinning out the ranks and bringing in &#039;A&#039; players.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sprint has a complete lack of execution in their core business, probably due to its nice, but painfully dense and slow-moving middle management in Overland Park.  The Nextel team in Reston used to laugh about how thick their counter-parts in OP were.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sprint needs new leadership and new blood, which probably means new owners.  They probably need to lose CDMA on the way to GSM and Wimax.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;@Petabro - CDMA has gone the way of Beta.  It was a superior technology and could have ended up dominating, were it not for Qualcomm&#039;s greed.  Someday, there will be economic studies done on whether Qualcomm would have profited more over the long run by charging less usurious fees in the early going and my guess is the answer will be they shouldn&#039;t have been quite so greedy.  That&#039;s not to say QC didn&#039;t produce billions in shareholder value during its reign.&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SK definitely knows how to run their business in Korea well, although there they own the dominant carrier.  If they were to buy Sprint they would be ruthless in thinning out the ranks and bringing in &#8216;A&#8217; players.</p>

<p>Sprint has a complete lack of execution in their core business, probably due to its nice, but painfully dense and slow-moving middle management in Overland Park.  The Nextel team in Reston used to laugh about how thick their counter-parts in OP were.</p>

<p>Sprint needs new leadership and new blood, which probably means new owners.  They probably need to lose CDMA on the way to GSM and Wimax.</p>

<p>@Petabro &#8211; CDMA has gone the way of Beta.  It was a superior technology and could have ended up dominating, were it not for Qualcomm&#8217;s greed.  Someday, there will be economic studies done on whether Qualcomm would have profited more over the long run by charging less usurious fees in the early going and my guess is the answer will be they shouldn&#8217;t have been quite so greedy.  That&#8217;s not to say QC didn&#8217;t produce billions in shareholder value during its reign.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: Petabro</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Om,
They have been talking for over a year. I was hoping you would provide insight into regulation - Will help if you could provide insight on the foreign ownership limits. I still hope Comcast buys Sprint. Step up to the plate, Mr. Roberts. I know you have talked to the past two and the current CEO of Sprint about a merger.Sprint uses CDMA - the most efficient user of spectrum. Qualcomm will be happy about that also. They have this little venture called - &quot;Mediaflowusa&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Om,
They have been talking for over a year. I was hoping you would provide insight into regulation &#8211; Will help if you could provide insight on the foreign ownership limits. I still hope Comcast buys Sprint. Step up to the plate, Mr. Roberts. I know you have talked to the past two and the current CEO of Sprint about a merger.Sprint uses CDMA &#8211; the most efficient user of spectrum. Qualcomm will be happy about that also. They have this little venture called &#8211; &#8220;Mediaflowusa&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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