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Wireless Providers Competing More Than Ever

posted by mattie_p on Thursday February 20 2014, @09:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-think-of-the-stockholders dept.

siliconwafer writes:

"Competition among wireless providers could hurt profits in the wireless industry, according to a report by Reuters. T-Mobile's aggressive price structure, abandonment of contracts, and termination-fee payments have put downward pressure on mobile costs for consumers, and Wall Street analysts are forecasting a reduction in profits in the wireless sector as a result. AT&T in particular is showing signs of stress. While this may be bad news for the wireless industry, it's good news for consumers."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by pk on Thursday February 20 2014, @10:41PM

    by pk (2591) on Thursday February 20 2014, @10:41PM (#4012) Homepage
    So the wireless companies are competing more than ever, and they are just filling the airwaves with advertisements, and they're all over the television. But the Sprint ads really irritate me.

    If they spent all this money on infrastructure instead of shitty, stupid advertisements... maybe I'd be able to have comparable coverage and speeds as Verizon and AT&T users. Until then, whenever I go on travel, I usually roam, have no signal in town, or have full signal in the absolute middle of nowhere.

    They're going to lose a customer this year if they don't start rolling out the 4G they've been promising forever.

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  • (Score: 1) by BradTheGeek on Friday February 21 2014, @09:30AM

    by BradTheGeek (450) on Friday February 21 2014, @09:30AM (#4276)

    I wish this weren't true. I do not subscribe to sprint, but I use them through an MVNO (Ting in my case). From what I understand, total user count on Sprint is very high because of all the MVNO's that use their network, however the network sucks. Calls are normally fine, but in my area and many others there are big signal gaps, very little 4g LTE, and where I live in a 3g area, there are would I would consider bandwidth issues in busy areas. For example at a major event, when there are lots of people using the tower in one small area, 3g is slow to nonusable, and even calls will start to drop on not connect. I have even seen this start to happen on summer days downtown under 'normal' load conditions, with only slightly more than the average number of people about.

    Personally I really love Ting, their customer service and pricing model are great. I just wish they were riding another network.