Sprint accuses Verizon of whining and panicking - CNET

Was Verizon really stooping to conquer a little more? Or was there perhaps a little ego at stake?

Sprint has decided that Verizon is a panicking whiner.

I deduce this from a new Sprint ad that suggests these very things.

Here we see Marcarelli sitting on a park bench. You have time to do this when you're now being paid vast amounts by a second large phone company to peddle its wares.

A woman recognizes him from his Verizon-peddling days. She has switched to Sprint too, so why hasn't she seen Sprint's new ads featuring the former Verizon man? Are they not working?

Still, she sits down and says: "Have you seen all the whining from Verizon?"

One person's whining is another person's squishing and mocking.

Marcarelli, though, still has Verizon on his mental horizon.

"I think the Goliath is panicking," he says. He explains that people are switching to Sprint because all the networks are pretty much the same and yellow's a prettier color.

Actually, he doesn't mention that last part but perhaps he should.

The two strangers then chat about how much cheaper Sprint allegedly is.

A Verizon spokesman told me: "We keep building and improving our 4G LTE network. It's already 1.5 million square miles bigger than Sprint's. Didn't Softbank just cut Sprint's funding off? An 'unlimited' plan on such a limited network has no value, unless you're sitting at home all day and don't use your mobile service in all those places you go."