To the extent that he could, Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel CEO Gary Forsee tried to keep the conversation at Goldman Sachs Communacopia centered around his company’s investments into its network,. But, not surprisingly, the questions for Forsee were more centered on his company’s ongoing struggles to grow its customer base and compete against the rest of the wireless industry. Forsee avoided giving any tough answers, denying that his company is particularly exposed to a slowing economy, due its Nextel service (big in the construction industry). Instead, he continued to hit home the fact that the company is investing in its network, that it is successfully completing the migration of all of its base to CDMA, and that it’s close to rolling out push-to-talk to all customers. All in all, probably not the red meat that investors were looking to hear.
On the iPhone: The company did take a hit when it first came to market, and then a subsequent, but smaller, hit when the recent price cut was announced. But, Sprint will have its own touchscreen handsets coming up, which he believes will help it compete.
700 mhz auction: Mainly the company sees it as a big deal for the competition, since Sprint’s wireless broadband strategy revolves around its WiMAX investment and partnership with Clearwire.
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