Thread regarding T-Mobile layoffs

@e8 Sprint people are a cancer.

@pb You don's know what you are talking about. BOOST Mobile came from NEXTEL. NEXTEL created BOOST Mobile. Boost Mobile was founded as a joint venture between Avalon Adderton, Peter Adderton, Craig Cooper, Kirt McMaster... plus Nextel Communications in 2001. A few years later It was purchased by Nextel fully in 2003. DISH had NOTHING to do with BOOST.

@jg I was at DISH. Charlie Ergen at DISH has always been a real estate frequency squatter since the early 2000 and the Feds let him get away with it. He is despised by everyone in Telecom. Only when the FCC under Obama threatened to yank his frequency away, he started the rumblings of launching a 4th carrier BS. Not to say he is not successful, built a "huge" 1.2M subscriber base with BOOST and 5G Open RAN on AWS which I worked on. Now look at his stock value after sale of frequency to ATT and now to Musk. So who is the fool now! Ergen at 83 played the US Gov and all of us.

@e8 I am the OP... I am not disputing what you have written, what I have said and I am saying... anything Sprint touches burns... hence T-Mobiles issues. It was bad for T-Mobile to touch Sprint, Sprint was cancer and is still cancer in the T-Mobile world to this very day. I was against the Sprint merger because I knew what it would do to T-Mobile over time, cancer takes a long time to ravage the host until the point of no return comes... Sprint should have been allow to go into bankruptcy and be sold off to the other telco's piece by piece. As for the deal, where is DISH.. the 4th carrier...? Yeah.. that deal was for the dogs and everyone knew it... There never would be 4 major cell providers in the US and everyone knew it... and there never will be! It would cost nearly 800 billion to build a national network out these days from scratch... hence DISH is no more.

@ae Simple question: where is Sprint now days, how is the Sprint network doing, how is Sprint's stock doing, and lastly how is Sprint's employee moral doing these days? Just wondering!

@e8 They were a board decision. Srini and Mikey's doing.

@OP These layoffs were Srini Gopalan’s decision and he was never ever part of Sprint. The Sprint acquisition was masterminded by John Legere who also was never part Sprint. Legere promised there would be no layoffs in order to get the merger approved. We all know how that turned out.

Blaming the now defunct Sprint for any of this is completely unhinged.

Sprint leaders and outside newbies hired on as leaders, fkn up the culture. Bad hires.

The Sprint merger was the worst thing to happen for consumers and employees. Wish the merger never got approved. All the toxicity from Sprint really ruined our brand.

@a4 Sprint was a better company to work for period. It was also easier to sell in most markets and had a big name across the globe, not just in certain regions. TFB is a bust as T-Mobile was never anything more than a retail store.

When you lose Neviile, Saad, Brian King, Delroy and the people who actually built Magenta from Tech/Engineer level to CTO, the lessons learnt you cant replicate with a parachuted in CEOs and the malignant Sprint yellow bellies. I launched Sprint CDMA in 1998 and work with them every day thru 2013. Their culture is poison post 2005 and with Softbank mo--ns in charge became worse.
You will never understand what Legere built simply by staying out of the way of people who knew stuff. He was always frontline Customer facing 1st and that was the face of Tmo, young, happy and willing to do whatever it took to get the job done. You will never understand that. I bid you good health.

Amazing how in the minds of old T-Mobile people Sprint personnel can simultaneously be the stupidest and most useful in earth but also solely and sinisterly responsible for T-Mobile's downfall.

It's almost like T-Mobile has a deeply ingrained and toxic culture of casting blame and sticking its head in the sand...