Sprint announced the first of several planned international 4G roaming agreements. In Jamaica and Taiwan, Sprint customers can now roam on host 4G networks with $15 day passes. – Sprint
customers now have access to 4G networks when travelling in Taiwan and Jamaica,
the carrier announced Jan. 31. Through new partnerships with Digicel in Jamaica
and Global Mobile in Taiwan, Sprint customers with Sprint 4G devices that
feature the Sprint SmartView Connection Manager will be…
Sprint plans to apply a Premium Data charge of $10 a month to new smartphone activations, beginning Jan. 30. – Sprint will continue to offer smartphone users unlimited data access, but its going to charge a bit more for that extravagance. Starting Jan. 30, the carrier will begin applying a Premium Data charge of $10 a month to all new smartphone accounts. Current Sprint smartphone customers wont be affected …
News Analysis: Verizons introduction of its own version of the Apple iPhone will bring changes to every major U.S. carrier, not just to Verizon and AT&T. – The announcement by Verizon Wireless that the company soon would be selling a CDMA/EVDO version of Apples popular iPhone has an impact that goes far beyond customers who want an iPhone but dont want AT amp;T.
Verizon Wireless is expected to sell millions of iPhones
once they become available o…
Virgin Mobile will reportedly stop offering its $40 unlimited 3G Broadband2Go data plan. With AT&T having cut off the data hogs and Verizon wavering, Sprint now stands alone. – Virgin Mobile is the latest carrier to cancel its unlimited
wireless data plan.
The carrier will stop offering
its $40 all-you-can-eat 3G Broadband2Go data plan after Feb. 15, PC World has reported, writing that Virgin
said it needs “to implement network controls to ensure optimal experience.”
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Got keypad? Sprint customers now have a choice of the HTC Evo Shift 4G, with its slide-out QWERTY keypad and Android 2.2, or the original HTC Evo 4G. – @font-face {
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The HTC Evo Shift 4G is now
officially available on the Sprint network.
Like its keyboard…
RIM’s PlayBook is coming to Sprint’s 4G network this summer, the companies said during the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show. This may not sit well with analysts who expected the iPad and Android challenger sooner. – Research In Motion Jan. 6 has tapped Sprint to launch its
controversial BlackBerry PlayBook tablet later this summer.
RIM’s PlayBook, the company’s answer to Apple’s iPad and Google Android-based
tablets that proved popular in 2010, will include the new Blackberry Tablet OS
based on QNX software…
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Motion on Jan. 6 tapped Sprint to launch its controversial BlackBerry PlayBook
tablet later this summer.
RIM’s PlayBook, the company’s answer to Appl…
RIM’s PlayBook is coming to Sprint’s 4G network this summer, the companies said during the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show. This may not sit well with analysts who expected the iPad and Android challenger sooner. – Research In Motion Jan. 6 has tapped Sprint to launch its
controversial BlackBerry PlayBook tablet later this summer.
RIM’s PlayBook, the company’s answer to Apple’s iPad and Google Android-based
tablets that proved popular in 2010, will include the new Blackberry Tablet OS
based on QNX software…
Sprint introduced the Evo Shift 4G smartphone and Novatel Wireless MiFi 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot, bringing its total number of 4G devices to 17. Both will arrive in the first quarter. – The number of 4G-enabled devices on Sprint’s 4G WiMAX network is now up to 17, with the Jan. 4 introduction of the HTC Evo Shift 4G smartphone and the MiFi 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot from Novatel Wireless.
Building on the success of the Evo 4G, Sprint’s first 4G smartphone, the Evo Shift 4G features a sl…
Sprint has extended its 4G WiMAX network to Denver, Colo., and Bridgeport, Conn., bringing its total number of coverage areas to 70. On Dec. 28, the Bay Area will be next. – In time for holiday 4G smartphone giving, Denver and Bridgeport,
Conn., are the newest cities to be blanketed by Sprints 4G network.
Based on WiMAX technology from Clearwire, the wireless service, says
Sprint, now offers these cities download speeds that are up to 10 times
faster than its 3G ser…
In a new report, the Yankee Group is taking a close look at the effects 4G will have in 2011. Expecting 4G to lay the foundation for a "fundamental reshaping of the telecom industry and commerce as a whole," the big message for 2011 is to get ready: Corporations and consumers will see 4G beginning to make inroads next year, but the really big changes will arrive in 2012. Still, therell be plenty of shifts and adjustments in 2011, with prepared companies& such as Sprint, AT&T, Google and Apple& expected to benefit, while others& including Clearwire, Nokia, and, again, even Apple and AT&T& feel the pinch of being unprepared or otherwise losing out to rivals. Among Yankees 13 predictions are that carrier VOIP (voice over IP) still wont be in the picture, Google will benefit from mobile data, Chinese vendors will beat out 3G incumbents, and a malicious denial-of-service attack with take down a 4G network, to its enormous expense. Happy New Year. – …
A Sprint executive says the wireless carrier will offer a 4G tablet in 2011, and that enterprise customers are hungry for it, according to Forbes. The BlackBerry PlayBook is one guess. – Sprint President of Business Markets Paget Alves said the carrier will
release a 4G-enabled tablet in 2011, according to reporting from Forbes.
Currently, Sprint like eventually Verizon Wireless, AT amp;T, T-Mobile and
U.S. Cellular offers the Samsung Galaxy Tab. The tablet, however, is only
…
News Analysis: An analyst claims that Verizon might pay Apple to not bring its iPhone to T-Mobile’s or Sprint’s networks. That sounds like a wise idea for Apple. – Since
its release in 2007, Apple’s iPhone has been available exclusively to AT amp;T
customers in the United States.
Since that launch, rumors have been swirling that Apple would be bringing its
smartphone to Verizon’s network sooner rather than later. But more than three
years since that launc…
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 …
With an Apple iPhone on Verizon coming “closer to reality,” says a report, the deal may include preventing T-Mobile and Sprint from getting iPhones as well. – As a Verizon Wireless iPhone becomes quot;closer to reality, quot; the
carrier may be negotiating to prevent competitors Sprint and T-Mobile from
getting iPhones of their own, according to a Dec. 6 research note from Kaufman
Bros. analyst Shaw Wu.
Following Apple’s record shipments of 14.1 mil…
Sprint’s WiMax 4G network is now live in six new cities Los Angeles, Miami, D.C., Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus bringing its total of 4G markets to 68. – Sprint is the latest carrier to add to the 4G conversation, announcing Nov.
29 that it has rolled out 4G service in six new cities Los Angeles; Miami;
Washington D.C.; and Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio bringing its
total number of covered markets to 68.
With 4G-enabled devices, or Wi…
Sprint will reportedly debut an HTC Evo 4G Slide at Januarys CES event. A smaller sibling to the Evo 4G, it could offer a QWERTY keypad and larger battery. – Sprint has had such good luck with the HTC Evo 4G smartphone that it
seems to be planning a little-brother follow up, the Evo Shift 4G, Engadget reported Nov. 16. The information, says the tech site, comes from an “established tipster.”
Reportedly also known as the “Knight,” the Boy Genius Report…
The BlackBerry Style 9670 for Sprint, the second smartphone from RIM running the new Blackberry 6 OS, is the first BlackBerry flip phone with a full, four-row QWERTY keyboard. The clamshell flip phone design is sturdy and polished, an attractive form factor seemingly fitting for a BlackBerry. Unfortunately, the Style does not support Sprint’s 4G WiMax network, instead offering 3G EVDO Rev A and 802.11n for connectivity. The Style comes with two low resolution screens& an external screen showing the clock, waiting message indicators, callerID information or media information when the Style is closed& and an internal screen for normal operation when open. Sacrificing some flexibility, the Style only has one convenience key, as RIM eschewed a second button in favor of an externally accessible (theoretically, at least) MicroSD slot. To read the full review, check out "BlackBerry Style 9670 Flips for Sprint 3G Network". Or if you have experience with the BlackBerry Style 9670, share your thoughts at http://labs.eweek.com. – …
The BlackBerry Style 9670′s flip phone design enhances the BlackBerry appeal, while poor screen quality, 3G-only network support, and limited programmable keys detract. – The BlackBerry Style 9670 for Sprint, Research In Motion’s first BlackBerry
flip phone with a full four-row QWERTY keyboard, delivers a design that seems
quite appropriate for the BlackBerry. However, other design decisions limit
some of the appeal and usability of the new smartphone.
The Style…
Sprints 4G LTE network is now live in New York City, as well as five other metropolitan markets. Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington can expect the same treatment soon. – New York City, the town that continually challenged AT amp;T to swaddle it in 3G connectivity is now a part of the Sprint 4G service network, the carrier announced Nov. 1. Also newly live are Hartford and New Haven, Conn.; New Brunswick and Trenton, N.J., and Tampa, Fla.
Based on WiMax technolog…
