{"id":621,"date":"2007-07-26T08:04:26","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T12:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=621"},"modified":"2007-07-26T08:06:56","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T12:06:56","slug":"sprint-about-to-bought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=621","title":{"rendered":"Sprint about to bail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newswires are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/mergersNews\/idUSSEO5650220070726\">pretty much exploding this morning<\/a> with rumors that a Korean venture, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sktelecom.com\/eng\/index.jsp\">SK telecom<\/a> is in talks to buy what only be described as a battered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sprint.com\">Sprint<\/a> Nextel. With the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/us-wireless-phone-customers-more-satisfied\/story.aspx?guid=%7B42AACBDF%2D25F0%2D4ED8%2DBD4F%2DF48671CC59A3%7D&#038;siteid=yhoof\">JD Power<\/a> poll pretty much showing that Sprint isn&#8217;t going anywhere, and with customers steadily fleeing the Nextel side of the company, it looks like management may be getting ready to bail out.<\/p>\n<p>SK Telecom technically isn&#8217;t new to the US: they are investors in the wireless MVNO we know as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/us-wireless-phone-customers-more-satisfied\/story.aspx?guid=%7B42AACBDF%2D25F0%2D4ED8%2DBD4F%2DF48671CC59A3%7D&#038;siteid=yhoof\">Helio<\/a>.  From what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onezumiverse.com\">Onezumi<\/a> tells us, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onezumiverse.com\/?p=246\">Helio isn&#8217;t all that great either<\/a>.  Maybe their combined suck-ness will spawn something&#8230; less sucky?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and in case you were wondering: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intomobile.com\/2007\/07\/26\/ampd-mobile-extends-service-termination-deadline-the-dream-dies-on-july-31st.html\">yes, Amp&#8217;d fails at life<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newswires are pretty much exploding this morning with rumors that a Korean venture, SK telecom is in talks to buy what only be described as a battered Sprint Nextel. With the recent JD Power poll pretty much showing that Sprint isn&#8217;t going anywhere, and with customers steadily fleeing the Nextel side of the company, it [&hellip;]<\/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-621","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\/621","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=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}