Sprint has a year to sell Nextel spectrum in iPCS regions
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Feb 5th 2009 6:09PM
posted Feb 5th 2009 6:09PM
Okay, so it's not just that Sprint can't offer service on iPCS' turf -- it's that they have to offload all that airspace, too. Cook County Circuit Court in Illinois has decided that Sprint needs to sell off its Nextel service areas that overlap with iPCS within 360 days, which marks another big win for the affiliate that's been all up in Sprint's business ever since the Sprint-Nextel merger several years ago. What's more, iPCS has more pending litigation claiming Sprint is withholding "advanced technologies" in favor of iPCS' competitors, so there's still all sorts of bad blood between these two. As for potential suitors for Nextel's obligatory spinoffs, Sprint's not talking -- yet -- but with iDEN's seeming second wind, snatching up that network might not be the worst decision a company could make.
This is so stupid. iPCS is the worst thing for sprint right now and it is just really killing them. The only way for them to fix this is by taking the ipcs over in a hostile take over. Which sprint can't do right now because they are broke.
Don't blame IPCS they are in an advantageous position and are exploiting it. If anything Sprint may be better served by expanding their affiliates out again. Letting them take some of the overhead off of Sprint.
They should use Shentel as an example, and build on that.
Damn you Cook County! First the Blues Brothers orphanage and now this!