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HTC Evo 4G, Samsung Epic Helped Sprint Add Wireless Subscribers in 3Q

The HTC Evo 4G and Samsung Epic 4G helped Sprint add 644,000 wireless subscribers during its third fiscal quarter, but the carrier still posted a financial loss. – The best descriptor of Sprints third-quarter performance, said CEO Dan Hesse, is “momentum.”

Sprint announced third-quarter consolidated net operating revenues
of nearly $8.2 billion. However, Sprint still posted a net loss of $911
million during the quarter. However, Sprint also added 644,00…


Sprint Clearwire Resignations May Open LTE Door for T-Mobile

News Analysis: The resignations of three top Sprint Nextel executives from Clearwires board of directors on Sept. 30 may have opened the way for investment in LTE by T-Mobile. – When three top executives from Sprint Nextel,
including CEO Dan Hesse, resigned from the board of directors of 4G
provider Clearwire, Inc. the official reason was changes in the
anti-trust laws regarding interlocking boards of directors.
But theres every likelihood that the real
reason was mone…


Sprint Considering LTE, Merger with T-Mobile

Sprint is reportedly considering adding LTE-based 4G technology on top of Clearwires WiMax technology, a move that could encourage Deutsche Telekom to acquire Sprint and merge it with T-Mobile. – Sprint Nextel, the first U.S. carrier to roll out a 4G network, is
considering changing its 4G strategy in a way that could encourage a
merger with T-Mobile, according to a July 12 report from the Financial Times.
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse told FT that Sprint is considering rolling out
LTE (long-term…


HTC Evo 4G Is Sprint’s First WiMax-Ready Smartphone

Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse unveiled the HTC Evo 4G during a high-profile presentation at the CTIA Wireless 2010 conference in Las Vegas on March 23, offering up a device whose 4.3-inch capacitive touch screen, 1GHz Snapdragon processor and Google Android 2.1 operating system supposedly make it ideal for displaying multimedia content such as online video. In keeping with other smartphones making their debut at CTIA, the HTC Evo 4G emphasizes social networking, both by aggregating social networking services such as Twitter and Facebook into a unified flow, and by allowing people to record every instant of their lives with two integrated cameras. Sprint hopes that its investment in a 4G network and devices will pay off by increasing its customer retention, which has dipped over the past few quarters.
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Sprint Announces HTC Evo 4G, Emphasizing Multimedia

Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse introduced the HTC Evo 4G, which he called the country’s 4G smartphone, during a high-profile presentation at the CTIA Wireless 2010 conference in Las Vegas on March 23. Running Google Android 2.1 and boasting a 1GHz Snapdragon processor and 4.3-inch capacitive touch screen, Sprint is betting that users interested in using their smartphone for intensive multimedia will be attracted to the device. Having recorded fairly substantial customer erosion and financial losses over the past few quarters, Sprint is investing heavily in a 4G network that it sees as the way of the future.
– LAS VEGAS Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse
announced a 4G-capable smartphone, the HTC
Evo 4G, during a high-profile presentation at the CTIA Wireless 2010 conference
on March 23. Boasting that it would take multimedia to “a whole new level,” Hesse
demonstrated the device, which boasts a 4.3-inch capa…


Sprint CEO Hesse Says Mobile Devices Benefit Health Care

Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse’s keynote address at the annual HIMSS conference emphasizes the health care advances that high-speed wireless connectivity such as Sprint’s 4G network with Clearwire can make possible.
– Mobile solutions powered by high-speed networks
will continue to help the health care industry improve the treatment of
patients and drive down costs, Sprint Nextel CEO Dan
Hesse said in his keynote
address at the annual conference of the Healthcare Information and Management
Systems Society Ma…


Sprint Will Offer Android Mobile Phone, CEO Says

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse told Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference-goers that Sprint would offer a mobile phone running the Google Android operating system in 2009, sources say. Hesse, who called the Palm Pre launch a coming-out party for Sprint, said it was still too early to call the Pre smartphone a hit, according to Reuters.
– Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, speaking at the
Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference on July 24, said the nation’s third-largest
carrier would offer a mobile device running the Google Android operating system
later in 2009, according to multiple sources.

Reuters
reported that Hesse didn’t say which vendo…