Dish Network wants to buy Sprint

phippsy84 said:

Dish in my opinion is a joke. They are cheap but you get service you pay for. They have possibly the worst customer service ever. There is a reason they lose customers each year and are rated poorly year after year.

Click to expand...

Click to collapse

Actually Dish Network has a A- rating thru the Better Business Bureau (BBB)
http://www.bbb.org/denver/business-...d-satellite/dish-network-in-englewood-co-6370

Sent from my SPH-L710 using xda app-developers app

Wow dish don't have unlimited internet I thought all providers had it I must be luck Brighthouse for 130 a momth ibget 60mbps a real 60mbps to like on my laptop my phone gets about 30-40 but thats to be expected.

Sent from my SPH-L900 using xda app-developers app

I use to work for dish and in my honest opinion, they don't give a **** about the customer. They just want their money.

While I think it would be good for more coverage it would be a huge deciding factor in me taking my service elsewhere, and I have had Sprint for 13 years now.

I would rather patiently wait than to be a dish customer.

If Dish did buy Sprint do you think they would change the name?
Maybe to something like Dish mobile lol

Sent from my SPH-L710 using xda app-developers app

Dish would undoubtedly change Sprint to "Dish". And refer to their mobile department as Dish Wireless.

Although Dish wants Sprint for the Clearwire spectrum.

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

Softbank has offered more than Dish, why would Sprint go with Dish? Also Softbank has more money and more assets than Dish so they can out bid them indefinitely. If Dish only wants Clear's spectrum they'd be better off trying to buy out Sprint's 51% with agreements to lease the 2.5ghz/2500mhz band Sprint wants for LTE back to them at a discount. This doesn't even take into account the Sprint/Softbank merger is already moving forward with Softbank having already given Sprint several billion dollars in an upfront cash infusion. The way things are looking Dish has already lost the bidding war on this one by offering a low ball bid to a company that needs as much liquid assets as possible to pull their ass out of the hole they buried themselves in with Clear. If you're honestly trying to outbid a larger company, and not just in it for the publicity to over inflate your own stock prices, then you offer substantially more and not just a few billion more. Yes a few billion dollars sounds like a lot of money, but in the corporate world especially when dealing with multibillion dollar mega corporations, a few billion is but a drop in the bucket when the other party counter offers by matching your bid and then raising it another $10billion cash infusion. I honestly think Dish just did this to get market speculation up and drive their stock value higher so they could cash in on the inflation caused by the speculations while driving other companies stock down so they can reinvest the profits from their own stock into other companies that slipped in the same period. This is called market manipulation and its a diversionary tactic used quite often when a corporation wants to proceed with a hostile takeover of another company. They bid on a company they really aren't all that interested in to distract from the fact they are actually driving prices down on the company they're really targeting to then be able to buyout majority share while the market value is low on their target.

☆SoA: Son's of Android™☆

I like to break stuff!

bigdreco said:

Actually Dish Network has a A- rating thru the Better Business Bureau (BBB)
http://www.bbb.org/denver/business-...d-satellite/dish-network-in-englewood-co-6370

Sent from my SPH-L710 using xda app-developers app

Click to expand...

Click to collapse

Just going by first personal experience with them, and different things I have read about their customer service and satisfaction. As with all companies there will always be good and bad.

-EViL-KoNCEPTz- said:

If you're honestly trying to outbid a larger company, and not just in it for the publicity to over inflate your own stock prices... I honestly think Dish just did this to get market speculation up and drive their stock value higher so they could cash in on the inflation caused by the speculations while driving other companies stock down so they can reinvest the profits from their own stock into other companies that slipped in the same period. This is called market manipulation and its a diversionary tactic used quite often when a corporation wants to proceed with a hostile takeover of another company. They bid on a company they really aren't all that interested in to distract from the fact they are actually driving prices down on the company they're really targeting to then be able to buyout majority share while the market value is low on their target.

☆SoA: Son's of Android™☆

I like to break stuff!

Click to expand...

Click to collapse

This seems the most likely..... Dish has withdrawn their bid.

A bit more info for those that are interested.

Dish Network Bows Out To SoftBank And Abandons Its Bid For Sprint, Re-Focuses On Buying Clearwire

I smell the days od unlimited going bye bye

jdelano said:

LOL ... I doubt it.
How about Spish???

Click to expand...

Click to collapse

LOL. "Yea, so just call me on my Spish..."

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

SamsungAddicted said:

I smell the days od unlimited going bye bye

Click to expand...

Click to collapse

Don't know, this is really the only benefit sprint has over the other big three, can't really see them dropping this. Lots more people would flock to t-mobile and verizon.

Dish treats their customers horrible.

SamsungAddicted said:

I smell the days od unlimited going bye bye

Click to expand...

Click to collapse

I seriously doubt that Sprint would pull th at move. They know it would destroy their bottom line. People would bail in droves. It's one of they're main attractions.
As for DISH, I had them for all of a month. Then switched . Nuff said.

TEAM MiK
MikROMs Since 3/13/11

prboy1969 said:

I seriously doubt that Sprint would pull th at move. They know it would destroy their bottom line. People would bail in droves. It's one of they're main attractions.
As for DISH, I had them for all of a month. Then switched . Nuff said.

TEAM MiK
MikROMs Since 3/13/11

Click to expand...

Click to collapse

I would hope that Sprint doesn't drop unlimited, but Verizon didn't seem to have any problems doing it (that I've heard of). Even seems like a safe plan. Offer unlimited and get a ton of new customers. Then cancel the offer and hope 30% of them (unhappily) stay?

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

g_money said:

I would hope that Sprint doesn't drop unlimited, but Verizon didn't seem to have any problems doing it (that I've heard of). Even seems like a safe plan. Offer unlimited and get a ton of new customers. Then cancel the offer and hope 30% of them (unhappily) stay?

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

Click to expand...

Click to collapse

Sprint can't afford to do that right now. They are the number three carrier, they are still losing customers, and they have what is considered the slowest network. Hoping the Softbank deal and buying the rest of Clearwire can put Sprint in a more competitive position.

phippsy84 said:

Sprint can't afford to do that right now. They are the number three carrier, they are still losing customers, and they have what is considered the slowest network. Hoping the Softbank deal and buying the rest of Clearwire can put Sprint in a more competitive position.

Click to expand...

Click to collapse

I don't think number 3 is a bad spot to be in right now. And every communications company (IMO) is more concerned about adding new customers then those customers that churn. I don't see any deals for staying a cell phone customer, just deals for becoming a new customer. Don't get me wrong. I'm a very happy with sprint, just saying that I think that's how the game is played....

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

It's a done deal......Softbank is the new Sprint.......Quoting Engadget:

Sprint and Softbank are officially approved to merge by Sprint shareholders, the companies announced this morning. According to Sprint, approximately 98 percent of shareholders at today's meeting voted to approve the deal, which represents "approximately 80 percent of Sprint's outstanding common stock"

http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/25/sprint-softbank-merger-approved/