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Mobile Phone Cable What kind of vehicle would Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse have todrive to accommodate all of the back-seat drivers wanting to advisehim on how to steer the wireless company back into the fast lane? Don't think a van would be big enough. A Hummer stretch limousine?How about a bus? A really, really, really long bus? "Wow. I've received hundreds of messages since we put my e-mailaddress on our latest TV ad. Thanks to everyone who responded.There are a lot of awesome ideas out there. Keep them coming!,"Hesse states on his company's blog, Buzz About Wireless. The folks at Laptop Magazine are getting in on the pass your tipsto Dan phenomenon. They recently interviewed Berge Ayvazian, YankeeGroup's chief strategy officer, about what he would do to save Sprint. Ayvazian covers all kinds of topics in his assessment of Sprintmissteps and possible fixes. Among other things, the company has todo a better job of getting the hot new phones and overcome ahistory of failed ventures with cable companies such as Comcast andTime Warner, he said. "Sprint is in an all-out war with AT&T and Verizon, and theonly allies it has are cable companies," Ayvazian said. "They needto partner with cable companies in effective ways to secure theirbase Hesse first must complete his WiMax spinoff with Clearwire, fix hiscustomer care problems, prove that the company can roll out a newhigh-performance walkie-talkie technology over the Sprint networkand solve all the other big problems, he said. But then, he said, Sprint becomes an attractive acquisitioncandidate for T-Mobile or its corporate parent, Deutsche Telekom. Or, headded, it's not out of the question that Sprint eventually will bethe buyer in such a transaction. "Neither T-Mobile nor Sprint on its own is sufficient to competeagainst Verizon. Sprint has put together the partnerships thatwould make it possible to create a viable competitor againstAT&T and Verizon," he said.