It wasn't always so.
Posted on 12/16/2014 10:22:18 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Sprint has informed NASCAR that it will not extend its title sponsorship of the organization's top-tier racing series beyond the current contract, which expires after the 2016 season.
Sprint has been the entitlement sponsor for NASCAR's top series since 2004, when Nextel signed a 10-year agreement for the Nextel Cup Series. The name changed to the Sprint Cup Series in 2008 following the corporate merger between Nextel and Sprint.
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Will they be backing hip-hop concerts and radical lesbian poetry slams instead?
Same Fox News radio report had the Nationwide Series changing sponsors to Comcast, not sure when but it sounds like sooner.
Well Sprint just bit the dust in MY book. Wimps.
So who's gonna sponsor
"The Winston Cup"
?
I don’t think Sprint can afford to sponsor it. Sprint’s 4G network sucks! They are losing customers to other cell phone companies that have better 4G data coverage. After being a Sprint customer for 15 years, I’m just about to switch to either AT&T or T-Mobile. My home is supposed to have 4G, but I am lucky to get just a weak 3G signal.
“My home is supposed to have 4G, but I am lucky to get just a weak 3G signal.”
I had to walk to the end of my driveway if I wanted to use my Sprint phone! No fun in January!
Hey, Maybe Winston Cigarettes would be interested. It is still legal to buy them isn’t it?
OH, that’s right. It is a product that is legal to sell, and VERY legal to tax, the largest cost to the consumer for a cigarette is the taxes on that cigarette, but all but illegal to advertise.
Welcome to the land of the free, bitches!
No, I don’t smoke.
Winston Cup. Sprint Cup. Those are racist! How about Skittles Cup?
Maybe Summer’s Eve ...
They can’t afford NASCAR anymore.
$105 million dollar fine
Screwed up incentives for Wireline sales and confusing quota’s.
Under performing network assets when benched against competitors.
Solution? cut prices during a time when overall EBITA is wholly lacking.
And Churn? Through the roof, erh, floor.
They are bleeding customers on wireline and wireless but, mostly wireless, as competitors come up with buyout deals to crush Sprint and force them out of wireless.
I look for Splint to exit wireless in 2 years and their stock to eventually hit sub $2. They’ll be a steal at that price and have to focus on what matters.
Whatever they decide that is.
Then again, maybe their death is near...
Should have had two different sales, exclusively, focus on their respective markets and only teaming up as incentive for a larger deal.
Then again, you’d have to train wireline sales what the ROE is and have an absolute floor for that.
Same mistake as some early telecom companies around 2000.
Had sales focused on two or three quotas comprised of equipment sales and wired sales.
Lame, lame, lame and I told em they couldn’t possibly make it.
Just sell the wired services and find some actuarial number for selling hardware, which should be leased, then let sales focus on the real money “Recurring Revenue”.
Stoopit, stoopit, stoopit....
Raise Bill Esrey from the dead. That dude was the nicest guy, ran an honest company by the numbers and profitable...
I’m switching after 15 years as well.
Their network has been defacto down in the town I live in.
Their solution? ROTFLMAO!!!
Well, they have been saying “We are upgrading our network” for 5 months now.
Well fools, you failed. Anyone can upgrade a network but, to take what was five bars on any day and take it down it down 1 or zero all over town is pathetic incompetence and someone ought to be fired.
“We can send you a Femtocell, for $150”.
Uhmmmm, really? Jack wagon. Free sounds better.
So they sent one for free.
So great, I can make calls from home but, walk down the street or go get a cup of coffee and it’s over.
Call me old school but it is still Grand National Series racing to me. Yeah I looked it up on wiki and the original name from 1949 was Strictly Stock Series but that was definitely before my time.
Fergit yer Comcast trubbles -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3encA6KYQUI
It starts really rockin’ about the two minute mark.
I remember being in the Daytona media center of the first year of the deal. It was before the Rolex24 and Sprint came in and gave new cell phones to the media to use.
One major problem. The closest Sprint tower to the speedway was too far away to get any bars in the media center. I watched as more than one free phone went aerial. They eventually brought in mobile antennas into the speedway.
On the advice of a friend who used Sprint, I went from ATT to them. All the promises of new network coverage yadda, yadda, yadda, turned out to be wholly projected of their failed attempt to acquire/merge Verizon. As my local supposed 4G coverage sank into perpetual 3G at best, I went back to ATT. Over the years I was always the one on a team who had coverage at all the tracks, even Watkins Glen that was notorious for no coverage by the others.
I was wondering how long this charade of a title sponsor of the series would go on. Now I have my answer. Now lets see what kind of IV League answer smart boy Brian has for this.
Don’t think they’re going to be sponsoring anything - Sprint is bleeding cash and they may not be around a lot longer. NASCAR sponsorship costs money they don’t have.
It wasn't always so.
Well, they have been saying “We are upgrading our network” for 5 months now.
They say that Sprint has already upgraded my city. Supposedly they can install some equipment at my home to improve 4G service there, but I have internet and WiFi there. It doesn't do any good for all the other places in my city where I get no 4G service.
I think the only thing of value they might have by then is licenses for spectrum and some some cell towers. They'll just be carved up.
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