Sprint Launches CDMA iDEN Hybrid Handset

"Sprint will initially roll out the hybrid service and ic502 phone in Baltimore, Boston, Central and Southern Jersey, Delaware, East Michigan, Jacksonville, LA Metro, Long Island, Miami/West Palm, New York City, Northern and Southern Connecticut, Northern Jersey, Orange County, Orlando, Philadelphia Metro, Providence, Riverside/San Bernardino, San Diego, Southwest Florida, Tampa, Toledo, and Washington DC. Other markets will come in 2007. The phones will work nationwide, of course; you just won't be able to buy them everywhere. Service plans will look like existing Nextel plans, with new $5-per-month unlimited Sprint mobile-to-mobile and $15-per-month Sprint Vision optional add-ons."

Sprint thinks that introducing a Hybrid device will fix all of their problems? Not so fast.. You can't put a band-aid on a Heart Attack!
The problem is that former Nextel Subs. are jumping ship in droves. Just look at the numbers from last quarter. No one at Sprint is happy with how things are post merger. Their employees are not getting the direction and support they need from top management. You've got Srint execs. down to the DM level, and Nextel execs down to the DM level vying for power. Start offering "real" solutions. Nextel knew a long time ago that they couldn't ride iDen forever. It's a technology of the past. Sprint just made a bad investment and their numbers show it.