Will Dan Hesse be CEO of Sprint Around This Time Next Year?
Ranging from customers to shareholders, all the way up to Sprint’s executives, many have started to question Dan Hesse’s leadership skills. Recently we took a look at Sprint’s management and it appears that their board of directors has been playing things close to the vest when it comes to their skipper’s decision making. With Sprint’s Network Vision program set to deploy the company’s nationwide LTE service later this year, many believe that it’s put up or shut up for Hesse.
Examining Sprint’s current position and all that is at stake, we began to wonder how safe Dan Hesse’s job really is. This brings us to today’s question, do you think that Dan Hesse will still be Sprint’s CEO around this time next year? It’s a tough call for some and for others it’s a no-brainer. Be sure to cast your vote and share your thoughts on Sprint’s current leadership situation.
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I stated in previous thread, Hesse is not the problem. The Board and Investors are, they are the ones that need to go!
If he does lose his job I would more than happy to take his job & make Sprint #1 within 6 months that’s how well I can help crush Big Red & help every customer on the Now Network
This is the guy that is turning Sprint into a wholesale carrier for prepaid junk. Data speeds has been terrible years before the Iphone came to this company. I am paying over 100 dollars after taxes while someone in a prepaid phone has the same data benefits as me. Its simple the company hasn’t been profitable for several quarters. The prepaid junk divisions will not bring the profit. This clown continue in a losing path. I think he is a secret AT&T agent.
The key test is the LTE deployment. We all know how much of a suck feet the WiMAX one was. Their they can deploy as fast as Verizon them he still has a chance.
the Investors OWN THE COMPANY!
Hesse needs to get his ass in gear and release the G-Nex NOW. new customers have nothing to buy and current customers have NOTHING TO UPGRADE TO.
Hesse f**ked up good. he f**ked up good this time.
I couldn’t have said it better!
Verizon is going to have 400 market live by the end of this year meanwhile we are all stuck with smartphones on a dumb network. I’m done paying for a service that I can’t use.
They will probably rollout LTE faster than every other carrier. They are suppose to basically be done with LTE rollout by the end of 2013( supposedly same time ATT is done with their rollout) and covering 277million POPS.
That was just… Very well said. I completely agree.
This whole time Sprint has had no new phones, and WiMax hasn’t rolled out at all. Sprint has to be doing something… I wouldn’t be surprised if Dan has been secretly making deals with HTC, Samsung, and etc to provide a rapid LTE deployment and a massive arsenal of 4G LTE Devices. 2012 might be the year for Sprint if they can deploy LTE faster than other carriers like AT&T. They haven’t released any info on any of their LTE phones, beside the Galaxy Nexus and Viper. And the Galaxy Nexus hasn’t had any info released at all practically. I am 100% Dan knows what he is doing.
Sprint never releases high end phones at this time. You say that like every year before this they released a high end phone every month. Last year We got the Shift in Jan. and didn’t get anything till the Nexus S in May…
Actually I believe their pre-paid division is one of the best. Not as profitable as contracts, of course not, but it has been very successful for them.
look as an employee, i have nothing but poss. feedback on the guy when but next to other former Sprint CEOs, he has been by far the one that has done more good to the company. i used to stress about having a job in the beginning but im more lax now. yes i agree we need to get the LTE ball rolling, we have great plans even if i were to leave sprint i would not want to fork over more money with vw or att, we have a good network maybe not the biggest but we do have the newest technology. i think he isnt given enough freedom and put through lots of NOs than go aheads .
Ah, so many backseat drivers. Still ranting incessantly about how bad and evil Dan Hesse is. How he’s destroyed Sprint with Nextel and WiMax. Blah, blah, blah. Sure, Sprint has made some missteps, but at the moment they are focusing on things they need to.
1) Finally delivering a handset that, over the years, cost the company a massive number of high value customers. Like it or not, the iPhone IS a make or break device for Sprint.
2) Rebuilding and modernizing their network inclduing: Rolling out LTE across their network footprint; Eliminating unnecessary (and costly infrastructure); Trying to establish partnerships for future growth (Lightsquared and Clearwire). Finally trying to do something useful with the Nextel acquisition like killing it off and using that spectrum for CDMA/LTE which should benefit most of their customers by the time it’s complete.
Just to keep it clear – the Nextel deal was done before he came to Sprint
Lol, very true, but he still gets blamed for it. In the long run, the Nextel acquisition has a nice silver lining in the form of spectrum. It’s just a shame it’s taken this long to finally get to a point where they can finally kill off the albatross called iDEN.
I somewhat agree with you… He kinda lost a vision by turning the network into wholesale carrier. What remains for us as customers? Absolutely nothing.
Sprint need to change its strategies. There is no WOW factor smartphone and we are stuck with p.o.s like Kyocera wtf… What about window phone? Or better Android phone? It seems to me sprint does not know how to diversify its interests… Few years ago was years of Android, and now Sprint declares the year of IPhone…
Sprint lacks on good flagship phones.
Oh wait, who tells them that they will benefit in the long run by outsourcing the network infrastructure? They real need to learn how Verizon and At&t build the in-house network.
Clearwire, Light-squared deals are jokes… they need to get off their ass and prioritize in building the network… Again they sat on iDen frequency band for too long before (they just started to pull off the plug recently) but iDen should had been decommissioned 3 years ago and utilize the bandwidth to build next gen network.
Dan is doing fine, at least he is honest. Sprint provides unlimited data and the coverage is fine. I was with AT&T for years and Verizon at work. AT&T is extremely expensive, yes they have cool phones but they are very expensive. Verizon is the same as AT&T just as a CDMA carrier instead of GSM.
I do really wish they would get some of the Motorola Droid phones because the ones Sprint has from Samsung and HTC just feels cheap in comparison. I have an HTC EVO 4G and it works fine, but I would really like to upgrade. I do not plan on leaving Sprint because they provide great service at a reasonable price. I don’t feel like I’m being cheated when I pay my bill.