Going to the chapel, and we're gonna get... no signal? Apparently Sprint and Nextel are looking to get hitched. A deeper read of this article certainly makes Cingular look like the obvious winner. Sprint and Nextel use very different technologies and, more importantly, have very different cultures. Everyone I know with a Nextel phone generally takes a "cold, dead hands" approach to it, and wouldn't readily give up the two-way radio feature without something much, much cooler to replace it. I'm not sure what it's going to take for all the wireless players to focus on their networks and fix the whole dropped call nonsense, but I doubt rampant consolidation is it. Especially one that looks as forced as this seems to.
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