AT&T slams Sprint for using other networks, instead of building its own

AT&T’s Senior Vice President-Federal Regulatory and chief privacy officer (CPO) Bob Quinn took a shot at Sprint on the company’s blog over its roaming agreement. The second largest wireless carrier in the United States slammed The Now Network for deciding to use roaming agreements, and “disinvesting” in its own network where the company is based.

Well, that wasn’t it, Quinn went on about how he felt it didn’t make sense that Sprint would use other networks, instead, he feels the Kansas-based company should follow in AT&T and Verizon’s footsteps and focus on building out its network capacity.

“I mean, at AT&T we have spent a lot of time and money investing in recent years racing to keep up with our subscribers’ surging broadband demands precisely because those demands are growing so rapidly,” Quinn wrote. “Verizon has been doing the same in building its own 4G LTE network. But at Sprint, the logic is different, and investment – Sprint investment – does not appear to be the solution. My guess is that Kansas and Oklahoma represent the tip of tip of the iceberg here. Does this represent the beginning of Sprint’s Disappearing Network Vision? Will this disinvestment story go nationwide and appear in your local paper soon?”

This whole thing just sounds like sour grapes from AT&T because they couldn’t close the deal when it came to acquiring T-Mobile. Honestly, how can AT&T sit there and say, “oh you need to be like Verizon and us,” when they know like everyone else who follows the world technology that Sprint doesn’t have the cash flow to do such thing. Quinn knows that, but he found it appropriate for himself to regurgitate a bunch of spin, motivated by his company’s failure — not cool.

[via AT&T]