{"id":211,"date":"2004-12-15T07:20:17","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T12:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=211"},"modified":"2008-03-06T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T00:00:11","slug":"well-its-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Well it&#8217;s Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sprint.com\">Sprint<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextel.com\">Nextel<\/a> have <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2004\/12\/15\/news\/fortune500\/sprint_nextel\/index.htm?cnn=yes\">announced plans to merge<\/a>.     My response?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Really, this is going to be VERY amusing at best, and nightmarish for Sprint and Nextel customers at worst.  The AT&#038;T Wireless-Cingular merger is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Problems+dividing+AT&#038;%2338%3BT-Cingular+merger%3F\/2110-1034_3-5460536.html\">already off to a rought start<\/a>, and the technology used by both networks is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsmworld.com\/index.shtml\">the same<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So imagine the dilemna to come: Basically two cell phone companies that run <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CDMA\">two<\/a>  different <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IDEN\">networks<\/a> that are probably as incompatible with each other as you can possibly get (no one has ever made a phone for Nextel that can roam on Sprint, nor vice versa) have decided to turn themselves into a single unified mobile phone network.  And they expect to close the deal in less than a year.<\/p>\n<p>Riiight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sprintnextel.mergerannouncement.com\/?refurl=uhp_globalnav_merger\">Official announcement from both companies appears here<\/a>.  Quite a rosy picture they paint too.  We will see if the expectations they put forth can be lived up to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sprint and Nextel are officially merging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}