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Sprint round-up: Board exits; lawsuit; unlimited ad

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Sprint Nextel has a handful of announcements and stories swirling around it today: Two board members resigned, MMS users filed a class action lawsuit against it and CEO Dan Hesse appeared in an ad touting the carrier's new unlimited plan.

Sprint board loses two

Two members of the carrier's board have decided not to seek re-election at the next annual shareholders meeting. Sprint disclosed the board members' plans in a filing with the SEC. Linda Koch Lorimer cited "other business commitments and schedule conflicts" as her reason for not seeking re-election, while Keith Bane told Sprint "personal family medical circumstances and the time needed to address them" was his reason.

Class action suit says Sprint's MMS had hidden fees

According to a class action lawsuit, Sprint failed to adequately disclose the data fees associated with sending picture messages (MMS) from their phone. The purpose and intent of these deceptive, false, fraudulent and misleading advertisements was to entice and/or lure Sprint Nextel customers into purchasing the 'Sprint Picture Mail' plan for a $5/month service charge without disclosing the true charges associated with this add-on service, which were exorbitant and in many cases caused the purchaser's bill to double," according to the suit. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama in Birmingham.

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse appears in unlimited plan ad

Sprint launched a new television ad featuring CEO Dan Hesse touting the carrier's new flat-rate pricing plan, which Sprint launched at the end of last month. Sprint announced its pricing plan after rivals Verizon Wireless, AT&T and T-Mobile USA announced theirs. Sprint's includes unlimited minutes, text messages, email, Internet access and other applications for $99.99-a-month.

For more on the Sprint news:
- read this Triangle Business Journal article about the board exits
- check out this RCR post on the lawsuit
- and watch CEO Dan Hesse's television ad spot for the new plan

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This company finds new ways to implode daily. It's a hellish place to work anymore. Somebody please PLEASE buy us out and throw the bozo's on the street!

how would I go getting my money back from sprint with all these hidden fees and charges? I do have copies of my bills.

I have been fighting with sprint since november of this last year... They want me to Pay 400 dollers for my phone service that i havent even had since then.... They have took money out of my bank account with out permisson which caused my banks account to be over drafted and still i get people that dont speak english..... No one will help me figure out how to fix this..... Can u help me???

I've had an up close and personal set of experiences with Mr. Keith Bane, which have led me to think that not only does Mr. Bane lack integrity but that he also has many of the earmarks of a sociopath. So it does not surprise me that as a board member of Sprint/Nextel that there is a class action lawsuit which questions the deceptivess and fraudulent practices of the organization. And the fact that Mr. Bane has stepped down may be his way of avoiding his part in the accountability on this matter. Using family medical circumstances as a reason for stepping down is probably just another one of his ruses. I say that because my experiences with Mr. Keith Bane revolved around his conniving and deceptive ways based on a need of greed. And he does not care how he goes about getting more for himself at the expense of other people.

Correction needs to be made to the March 4, 2009 comment made at 10:18 A.M. The responder of this comment is not a board member. Instead it was meant to indicate Mr. Ketih Bane's position within the Sprint/Nextel organization as a board member.And in Mr. Keith Bane's defense it also needs to be said that he does not sit alone when it comes to a sense of greed that seems prevalent within this country of ours. One only has to look at what motivated the subprime home loan lenders to see how rampant this characteristic is.

I'm asked to clarify my March 4, 2009 comment made at 10:18 A.M. So here it is:
When I spoke of Mr. Keith Bane as having
" many of the earmarks of a sociopath" in my experiences with him, I was referring to what seems to be his extensive use of MANIPULATION, which is certaninly and not necessarily a crime in and of itself. And that perceived manipulation can be interpreted either wrongly or correctly by myself or others as being purposely MISLEADING as a way to further his own ends at the exclusion of others, which is what GREED is all about. The manipulator's SINCERITY is thrown into question, when misleading words or actions seem to exist. And sincerity is a great deal of what makes up a person's level of INTEGRITY to another.
Add to that what seems to be a pretending to not look at one's own misleading remarks or actions as given to others and one gets the feeling that DECEPTIVENESS is being enacted. Pretending that one is not misleading others is what being CONNIVING is all about as well. These are all the above things that I have felt myself in regards to Mr. Keith Bane. So I seem to share similar feelings with those involved in the class action lawsuit against Sprint/Nextel of which Keith Bane has been a board member of.
Basically, a person or a company can beguile another with the use of wiles and enticements that suggest some hopeful prospects that don't truly exist. And in that way they can suggest a lack of uprightness, decentness, and morality. The public feeels that it is being lied to. And it is that feeling that is the spark which leads to such class action lawsuits that now exist.
But now Mr. Keith Bane has stepped down, due to the research and recommendation from Pali Capital Inc. to do so. Pali Inc. called on Sprint/Nextel shareholders to remove Mr. Bane and the others form the board. And the new CEO, Dan Hesse is at the helm. So things could be looking up now.

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