It just keeps getting better and better. Or is that worse and worse. Sprint Nextel, that wonderful company that gives you so much as a current customer (note sarcasm) has done it again. During their wonderful merger UbiquiTel, an affiliate of Sprint selling Sprint Phones and Sprint Service to 452,000 subscribers, sued over the merger.
I can’t really imagine why? No really, who wouldn’t want a horrible customer service phone company merging with a competitor allowing you less leverage in the phones you sell if you sell multiple brands of phones or provide to a smaller group of people. Sounds wonderful.
It turns out Sprint, sorry, Sprint Nextel has bought all but four of it’s affiliates this way and assumed tons more debt from these companies, just to get out of all the lawsuits all the affiliates were trying to pull on them. The merger would of course put and immediate stay to the lawsuits.
Keep on going Sprint. Buy more and more people that don’t like you and pretty soon you won’t need any customer service to be nice to people and answer questions because the world won’t have a choice in phones. We’ll all have to deal with junky service and junky customer service.
Great.