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Sprint's future: turnaround or takeover PDF Print E-mail
By Michael Schwartz   
11 Feb 2008 at 00:00

WiMAX, 4G, Business, Broadband Wireless: Boschulte Schnee Group has just described Sprint as the "bigggest wild card in the US telecoms market. Reading the Group's new report on Sprint. which looks at every option available to this controversial company, it is not hard to see hard to see why.

Culminating in a six-month intensive study of Sprint Corporation, research by two of the world's leading wireless broadband experts has revealed comprehensive options for this controversial company. Boschulte Schnee Group (BSG) has just published "Sprint's Future" which provides a detailed analysis, in the wirters' opinion of "How to fix it (Sprint) or take it over…and what happens to WiMAX."

The BSG report includes:

  • an in-depth analysis of Sprint's core business, namely CDMA and iDEN;
  • the ingredients needed for a turnaround, including a suggested new growth strategy;
  • the projected results of any such turnaround;
  • detailed examination of all of Sprint's WiMAX choices, ie, keep and build, tracking stock, spin-off to shareholders, keeping Spectrum, leaving/selling WiMAX, a joint venture, and likely returns to Sprint and its shareholders.

"Sprint is the biggest wild card in the US telecom industry. Its future will affect dozens of other players," states Victor Schnee, Co-Director of (BSG). "There will never be another opportunity to acquire a property with these kinds of resources, number three US wireless company; WiMAX world leader, number three US long distance carrier." "Sprint has the potential for a turnaround," added Al Boschulte, Chairman of BSG. Mr Boschulte, who ran NYNEX Mobile for several years as CEO, has declared: "But It has to battle two of the world's leading wireless companies and the traditional mobile market is experiencing slowing growth. Sprint has to come up with clear product differentiation."

 
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