Comments on: Sprint Loses Less Money, More Subscribers

By: Sprint Sets June 6 for Palm Pre Launch

Sprint Sets June 6 for Palm Pre Launch — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:04:53 +0000

[...] make-or-break rollout for Sprint. Along with cutting 8,000 employees, the carrier is still losing subscribers at a time when competitors are adding them. The Pre is also seen as a potential rival to Apple’s [...]

By: 5 Reasons the New Palm Pre is Like Sarah Palin | Palm Pre Reviewer: New Palm News and Reviews for Palm PreMadonna's

Tue, 05 May 2009 16:55:24 +0000

[...] McCain, and some even threatened to stay home on election day in protest to McCain. GigaOM says Sprint lost 4.6 million customers last year and the NYTimes losing tons of money for a while. Sarah Palin gave large groups of [...]

By: MetroPCS Grows As Economy Shrinks

MetroPCS Grows As Economy Shrinks — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:21:35 +0000

[...] favor, but the two smaller U.S. carriers, T-Mobile and Sprint are ratcheting up the pressure with Sprint’s $50 unlimited data and talk plan through its Boost Mobile subsidiary and T-Mobile’s $50-a-month retention plan. [...]

By: Broadband Bytes: February 14-20, 2009 » Free UTOPIA!

Broadband Bytes: February 14-20, 2009 » Free UTOPIA! — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:04:23 +0000

[...] Sprint continues to rack up losses, both in subscribers and dollars. They burned through $1.6B and lost 1.3M customers in the last quarter. Comcast isn’t doing so hot either, but they managed to stave off a full-on meltdown with higher telephone revenues. Sirius also saw its hide saved when DirecTV’s owner bought out a sizable chunk of the struggling satelite radio operator. [...]

By: jkOnTheRun » Blog Archive Sprint is hemorrhaging customers and money- Palm is scared stiff «

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:31:51 +0000

[...] and Sprint maybe hardest of all. They released their financial information lately and it’s looking bleak for the carrier. There is no way to put a positive spin on losing over $1 billion and 1.3 million customers. [...]

By: How much time does Sprint’s management have left? |

How much time does Sprint’s management have left? | — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:29:45 +0000

[...] Last year, a new management team took the helm of Sprint’s deteriorating business. Since then, they’ve shed employees, expenses, a 4G net work and quite a few more subscribers. While the size of the company’s losses are narrowing, the hemorrhaging customers continues while the entire mobile voice market goes flat.of Sprint reported sales of $8.4 billion and ended the quarter with 49.3 million subscribers after losing 1.3 million. Of those lost, 1.1 million were postpaid subscribers who have annual contracts with the carrier. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse has been trying to stem the subscriber exodus since his arrival — and had said it should ease at the end of 2008. Instead Sprint saw about 4.6 million subscribers defect in the last year, with 2.6 million leaving in the second half. (Gigaom) [...]

By: yoyoya

yoyoya — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:26:02 +0000

Everyone (developers) likes the pre. It takes very little time to develop apps for it. The apps are built in HTML, CSS, and Javascript so basically they’re like websites – that easy to write. Pandora built their app for the Pre in 3 days.

Google, facebook, myspace, the list goes on, will all have apps for the pre before it’s out. And all of the contact lists within each (google, facebook, etc.) will all automatically syn with the Pre’s contact list so that you get all of the info about your contacts automatically from their facebook profile, myspace profile, and potentially any other service that makes a compatible app.

My guess is that you will see just as many apps for the Pre as the iphone within 6-9 months. Several thousand apps within a few months. They’re that easy to build for the Palm OS.

This news kinda sucks because I just signed up for a more expensive 2 yr contract with ATT because I didn’t like the sprint prices – which are presently too high for family plans where you have to pay 20.00 a month for extra phones.

By: Niraj

Niraj — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:15:33 +0000

Unfortunately that new $150 Sprint plan caps its “unlimited” data at 5GB, which is not much when you’re talking about laptop usage.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:14:46 +0000

Stacey, do you know if those numbers include the Helio subscribers as well?

By: Dee

Dee — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:04:51 +0000

Thanks Stacey – and that would make an interesting article (longer than what the blog put together) in itself, I think, if you can get the connections.

Dee

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:57:33 +0000

Lucas and Dee, you guys are right. And Dee, nice preview on Google Maps on the Pre.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:43:25 +0000

Didn’t they say they were releasing it the first half of 2009?

By: Dee

Dee — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:37:32 +0000

Appears that Google likes the Palm Pre – Palm Pre runs Google Maps

We got a little last minute surprise from Google at this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Google’s VP of engineering, Vic Gundotra showed “one of his favorite devices”, the Palm Pre, running a webapp version of Google Maps coded entirely in HTML5. It acted exactly like you would expect a stand-alone app to act including multi-touch functionality like pinching, panning and zooming.

The Google Maps webapp relies on HTML5’s AppCache, GeoLocation and Database standards to keep the offline app running when there is no Internet connection, such as when traveling in an airplane or out of cellular range

http://blogs.computerworld.com/palm_pre_google_maps_web_app

By: Dee

Dee — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:08:43 +0000

Stacey,
I was under the impression that the Palm Pre is coming out during the first half of 2009. Is that not what Palm’s CEO indicated?

By: Mike Giraldi

Mike Giraldi — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:02:18 +0000

A 30 billion dollar loss to a 1.6 billion dollar loss. Seems to me Sprint is making a huge positive leap. The problem is all of those gains will be cancelled out with the state of the current economic conditions. It will be tough to repeat those gains in 09.