News Analysis: Sprint will renovate its integrated wireless network sites to consolidate and modernize its equipment to enable the phase out of its iDEN Service and perhaps even WiMax. – Sprint Nextel, in an initiative it calls “Network Vision” will be replacing the existing wireless infrastructure it currently uses to provide voice and 3G services, and perhaps even its 4G service over the next 3 to 5 years.
Currently, Sprint uses separate cell sites for its 800 MHz, 1.9 GHz and …
Deutsche-Telekom, Sprint, Verizon Wireless and others are among the interested bidders in Clearwire’s massive wireless spectrum holdings. – Clearwire, operator of the WiMax 4G high-speed data
network used by Sprint Nextel, is selling a portion of its massive spectrum
holdings in an effort to raise money to continue the build-out of its 4G
network currently used by Sprint and others.
The Clearwire auction is attracting T-Mobile USA…
Oracle, Yahoo, Sprint Nextel and a handful of other companies found themselves called out by a new report for the size of their top executives’ pay packages. – Oracle, Yahoo and a handful of other tech giants found themselves singled
out by research firm Glass Lewis amp; Co.’s latest quot;Pay Dirt quot;
report, which details which executives are underpaid or overpaid relative to
their companies’ overall performance.
The firm assembled its lists of …
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…
News Analysis: Sprint directors are mulling an offer by Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile USA to invest in the Clearwire network owned by Sprint. – A growing coziness between T-Mobile USA and Sprint Nextel
has been rumored for months. At one point there were rumors that T-Mobile’s
parent company, European communications goliath Deutsche Telekom, was preparing
to buy Sprint and make it part of T-Mobile. So far, nothing had come of it until
n…
The Motorola i1 will be the first Android phone on Sprint Nextels Direct Connect push-to-talk network. Selling for $150, itll get a soft rollout July 25, before arriving through all outlets Aug. 8. – Sprint Nextel has introduced the Motorola il, the first Android-powered smartphone to run on its Direct Connect push-to-talk network.
The Motorola i1 melds expected smartphone features with business-geared applications and military-spec ruggedness. Theres Android 1.5, a 3.1-inch HVGA touch screen…
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…
Sprint will launch the Samsung Epic 4G, its second 4G-enabled smartphone and Samsungs first 4G phone with Android, later this summer. The Epic 4G pairs a 4-inch multitouch display with a 1GHz Hummingbird processor, two cameras and, eventually, Android 2.2. – Sprint Nextel has announced that in the Samsung Epic 4G, it will soon have a
second smartphone capable of accessing its
growing 4G network. The newest member of Samsung
Mobiles Galaxy S smartphone lineup, the Epic 4G is the manufacturers
first Android-running, 4G device.
quot;Samsung Epic…
T-Mobile, like Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel, has introduced its own Galaxy S smartphone, the Samsung Vibrant. Arriving July 21, and available for preorder July 1, the Vibrant pairs Android, a 4-inch display and a 1GHz Samsung processor with heavy entertainment options. – Like Sprint and Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile introduced its own Galaxy S smartphone June 28, the Samsung Vibrant.
Unlike its competitors, however, T-Mobile tested no patience and
revealed pricing details and a timetable for the Vibrant which will
arrive July 21 and retail for $200 with a two…
Samsungs Galaxy S smartphones have invaded. One of three Android-running Galaxy S phones introduced June 28, the Fascinate, with its 4-inch multitouch display, 1GHz Hummingbird processor and 5-megapixel camera, is headed for Verizon. – Samsungs name is in the air, as heading into the July 4 weekend, the manufacturer released three new Galaxy S smartphones
the 4G-capable Epic 4G on the Sprint Nextel network, the Vibrant on
T-Mobile and now the Samsung Fascinate on Verizon Wireless.
While the carrier has shared that the Fasc…
After AT&T had on Wednesday announced to charge fees from the phone users for using mobile data in order to make heavy users to pay more, Verizon Wireless also is likely to take similar steps soon.
Experts are now saying the Verizon, which is the U.S market leader, will cut its prices only at [...]
Sprint Nextel announced an increase in net operating and wireless service revenues during its first quarter, as well as its ninth quarter of improved customer care. It still, however, lost 75,000 subscribers and posted a net loss of $865 million.
– Sprint Nextel may yet prove to be the little network that could, ever so gradually chugging ahead.
The world’s No. 3 carrier April 28 announced a first-quarter loss of
$865 million on revenues of $8.1 billion. However, it still lags
significantly behind its top competitors. On April 22, AT …
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse tells an audience during the CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas that his company invested in WiMax for its 4G technology out of a need to get into the 4G market quickly. However, Hesse also says he thought LTE would likely become the bigger 4G standard. Sprint introduced a 4G-capable smartphone, the HTC Evo 4G, at the conference.
– LAS VEGAS Sprint Nextel CEO
Dan Hesse suggested during a talk at the CTIA Wireless conference that his
company’s decision to invest in WiMax for its 4G technology, as opposed to LTE,
was out of a need to quickly create a footprint in the U.S.-based 4G market.
However, Hesse also said WiMax would…
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.
– …
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…
Palm releases updates for the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi OS. WebOS 1.3.5 offers fixes, conveniences and a smoother user experience for both Palm smartphones.
– Palm has introduced an update to its WebOS, the platform run by the Palm Pre
and the Palm Pixi, both of which, in the United
States, are exclusive to the Sprint Nextel
network.
With WebOS 1.3.5, available as of Dec. 28, Palm offers updates, improvements
and a housecleaning of what were likely …
Sprint Nextel plans to shed 2,500 jobs from its work force by the end of 2009. Sprint Nextel is the latest technology company to have layoffs in a series of job cuts in the past week that included Microsoft, Real networks, and Nokia Siemens.
– Sprint Nextel plans to lay off between 2,000 to 2,500
jobs in the fourth quarter of 2009. The Overland, Kan.-based wireless
technology carrier wants to slash about $350 million in internal and external
labor force annualized, but will spend between $60 million and $80 million in
severance packag…
The first week of November has been busy for phone manufacturers and carriers as they gear up for Nov. 27, the official first day of the holiday shopping season. The Android-based Motorola Cliq arrived on the T-Mobile network this week, while the Samsung Moment, also with Android, arrived in Sprint Nextel stores. The Chocolate Touch, the first of the Chocolate line with a touch screen, is now available from Verizon Wireless. Rounding out the week, Verizon debuted the Motorola Droid and the HTC Droid Eris. We’ve compiled a look at many of these models and their features to help you kick-start your comparison shopping.
– …
The Samsung Moment smartphone, now available on the Sprint network, is the struggling carriers second new smartphone to feature Googles Android operating system.
– The Samsung Moment is now available on the Sprint Nextel network,
making it the carriers second to feature Googles Android operating
system, the two companies officially announced on Nov. 3.
Sprint
first announced the Moment on Oct. 7, even before the arrival of its
first Android smartphone…
In an $831 million deal, Sprint Nextel is buying its affiliate carrier iPCS, which operates in 81 markets including Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Iowa and Tennessee. The deal should end the litigation between Sprint and iPCS, which has moved to block Sprint’s entry into its markets.
– Sprint
Nextel said Oct. 19 it is acquiring affiliate iPCS for approximately
$831 million, including the assumption of $405 million of iPCS debt.
The deal will also end the long standing litigation between Sprint and
iPCS, which has sued to block Sprint from entering iPCS territory.
Sprint
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