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Sprint: Still The Best For Data
Sprint, we just don't know how to feel about you. First, we hear your Nextel merger was an oopsie. Then there are reports that you're spending $100 million battling the iPhone in a futile televised slap fight. And to top it all off, we hear that you've just lost 1 million customers. That's some bad news. But it's probably good to note that Sprint is still good for something: their EVDO service may be the best for data-only 3G computer connection. AT&T and Verizon Wireless both cap their "unlimited" data plans at 5GB, which can lead to pricey surcharges. Sprint doesn't do this, and they were the first to roll with a Revision A network.
7:10 PM on Mon May 12 2008
By Mark Wilson
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34 comments
Latest by PhilR8: @OG512: Hey, that's cool. At my house, I actually get a strong AT&T signal and very weak Sprint and Verizon signals. But after I bought this: [www.solidsignal.com] the Sprint signal is nice and clear, and with the money I saved more »
cellphones
Sprint Loses 1 Million Customers While Everyone Else Gains
Two weeks ago we told you that Verizon and AT&T had added millions of customers in the first quarter of 2008, and that T-Mobile was also on the up. Today Sprint reported that, as expected, it was not part of this trend, instead losing 1 million customers in the same period. CEO Dan Hesse told Reuters that recovery would take "many quarters." Sprint was working hard to reduce customer cancellations and return to profit, but it was "still far from where we need to be." Our theory: Sprint is throwing a Hail Mary pass with the Samsung Instinct, whose marketing costs alone are rumored to cost $100 million—or more. If that doesn't work, I think we might see some towel throwing. [Reuters]
12:23 PM on Mon May 12 2008
By Wilson Rothman
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65 comments
Latest by AskTheAdmin: @AskTheAdmin: After researching it Logikgr is right - HSDPA is a 3G technology but is often referred to as 3.5G. By turning off HSDPA on my phone I still get 3G so I am going to assume it is a more »
blackberry curve
Blackberry Curve 8330 Coming To Sprint Tomorrow
Sprint may be a little late to the Blackberry Curve Party, but seeing as the Curve is a great phone, it's never really too late. The Curve 8330 will launch on the Sprint network tomorrow, complete with EV-DO, GPS, and tethering capability. You can order it tomorrow for $180 with a 2 year commitment. [Boy Genius via Crunch Gear]
7:28 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Adrian Covert
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4 comments
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WiMax Just Might Make It: Sprint's WiMax and Clearwire Officially Merge
The massive WiMax joint venture expected to be announced today is official, though the rumored details were a bit off. Sprint's WiMax division is merging with Clearwire to form a single WiMax company called...Clearwire. (But Sprint will own most of it.) Happily, the clusterfuckiness factor is lower than we figured. Google, Intel, Time Warner and Comcast are all contributing in ways that actually seem helpful and logical. Here's what they're gonna do, besides chip in $3.2 billion, all told. More »
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WiMax Joint Venture: Sprint, Clearwire, Comcast and Time Warner With $$$ from Google and Intel, Maybe Announced Tomorrow
Sprint and Clearwire are apparently set to do the almost unthinkable: Get WiMax off the ground. Fortune is reporting that Sprint and Clearwire are expected to announce as early as tomorrow the formation of a massive WiMax joint venture with Time Warner and Comcast. Intel and Google are rumored to be throwing money at the new WiMax party (more?). If you'll notice, this basically rolls up most of the past WiMax rumors into one convenient ball of fun—indicating they were spot on, or that this is just repackaged BS, so don't throw away the salt lick just yet. Godspeed, WiMax. UPDATE: Matt Richtel at the NYTimes corroborates it. More »
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Fresh off, uh, fresh rumors that T-Mobile's making eyes at Sprint, the WSJ is reporting that Sprint is "seriously considering spinning off or selling its ailing Nextel unit." The Sprint/Nextel hybrid has basically been the poster child for train wrecks masquerading as mergers, with Nextel being much (but not all) of the heavy weight slowly sinking the USS Sprint. Here's three reasons Sprint should throw Nextel overboard and what it would mean for you.
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Sprint Wants to Dump Nextel
Fresh off, uh, fresh rumors that T-Mobile's making eyes at Sprint, the WSJ is reporting that Sprint is "seriously considering spinning off or selling its ailing Nextel unit." The Sprint/Nextel hybrid has basically been the poster child for train wrecks masquerading as mergers, with Nextel being much (but not all) of the heavy weight slowly sinking the USS Sprint. Here's three reasons Sprint should throw Nextel overboard and what it would mean for you.
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5:15 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By matt buchanan
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Latest by peterfnet: I recently got Nextel, and I love it. I have the new i335 phone. It's something they should've done a long time ago. It's not a horrible blocky phone. But I use this in addition to my ATT Tilt. Most more »
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T-Mobile may be smallish in the US, but it's owned by German giant Deutsche Telekom, a company plenty powerful enough to buy up Sprint if it wanted to...and the rumor mill says it may want to. The Inquirer points out the obvious network issues that might arise. After all, what do you get when you cross a GSM network barely on HSDPA but harboring LTE aspirations with a CDMA/EV-DO franchise who's experimenting with WiMax while lugging a legacy iDEN network around for God-knows-what-reason? [Inquirer]
BTW, if you had trouble digesting that last sentence, please visit our handy Giz Explains post on mobile-network acronyms.
Rumor: T-Mobile Lusting To Buy Sprint
T-Mobile may be smallish in the US, but it's owned by German giant Deutsche Telekom, a company plenty powerful enough to buy up Sprint if it wanted to...and the rumor mill says it may want to. The Inquirer points out the obvious network issues that might arise. After all, what do you get when you cross a GSM network barely on HSDPA but harboring LTE aspirations with a CDMA/EV-DO franchise who's experimenting with WiMax while lugging a legacy iDEN network around for God-knows-what-reason? [Inquirer]BTW, if you had trouble digesting that last sentence, please visit our handy Giz Explains post on mobile-network acronyms.
8:43 AM on Mon May 5 2008
By Wilson Rothman
2,938 views,
30 comments
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It's Friday, so the mass of stupid and regrettable (and maybe criminal) text messages you wished you never sent is about explode exponentially, as it does every weekend. Google, as you know, keeps your embarrassing search history for "AZN Squirrels Pooping on Bananas" or "Iron Man upskirt" for 18 months. But how long do Verizon and AT&T hang on to your shameful SMSes? Thankfully, not long at all. Sprint hangs on to your textual diarrhea the longest, for about two weeks, while AT&T dumps them after 48 hours, according to Slate's Explainer. We hit up Verizon, who said a "couple days, tops." There are a couple catches, though.
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How to Cover Your Text Message Tracks
It's Friday, so the mass of stupid and regrettable (and maybe criminal) text messages you wished you never sent is about explode exponentially, as it does every weekend. Google, as you know, keeps your embarrassing search history for "AZN Squirrels Pooping on Bananas" or "Iron Man upskirt" for 18 months. But how long do Verizon and AT&T hang on to your shameful SMSes? Thankfully, not long at all. Sprint hangs on to your textual diarrhea the longest, for about two weeks, while AT&T dumps them after 48 hours, according to Slate's Explainer. We hit up Verizon, who said a "couple days, tops." There are a couple catches, though.
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7:30 PM on Fri May 2 2008
By matt buchanan
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28 comments
Latest by The Lab: Just saying, it is probably way easier for NSA spying software to scan text messages for suspicious content than phone calls. Oh you think they aren't scanning? Well, they are. more »
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Verizon Wireless and AT&T's quarterly earnings are both out, with Verizon claiming the "highest net adds in the industry," 1.5 million new subscribers, while AT&T says they've pulled in 1.3 million. (They both made out like bandits money-wise, as usual.) Between them, that's 2.8 million new subscribers. Where are they coming from? As of December, CTIA reports an 84 percent penetration, with 255 million subscribers. That weird orgy of unlimited plans a couple months ago further suggests that the market's already pretty saturated. I mean, do you know anyone still in the market for a cellphone? Where are all these new subscribers coming from?
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Verizon and AT&T Adding Millions of Cell Customers... But From Where?
Verizon Wireless and AT&T's quarterly earnings are both out, with Verizon claiming the "highest net adds in the industry," 1.5 million new subscribers, while AT&T says they've pulled in 1.3 million. (They both made out like bandits money-wise, as usual.) Between them, that's 2.8 million new subscribers. Where are they coming from? As of December, CTIA reports an 84 percent penetration, with 255 million subscribers. That weird orgy of unlimited plans a couple months ago further suggests that the market's already pretty saturated. I mean, do you know anyone still in the market for a cellphone? Where are all these new subscribers coming from?
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2:20 PM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By matt buchanan
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57 comments
Latest by AlphaTeam: A lot of people have cell phones. Don't forget some people people have 3 or 4 phones/numbers. So it adds up. I'm sure this figure includes prepaid as well. more »
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Sprint Phones Now Come With Nude Photos of Employees (Free!)
Daryl J. Roy isn't your average Sprint sales drone. Service doesn't stop just because you've got the receipt and walked out the door. Have you ever checked out Sprint's picture mail? He wanted to make sure Nicole McElveen did after she purchased some new phones from him. So he sent her a few picture messages, even though she didn't pay for the service, before really showing off the resolution and clarity of their cameras with full-frontal nude pics of himself. Just to make sure she saw how good the pictures were, he re-sent them three different times. More »
7:30 PM on Fri Apr 25 2008
By matt buchanan
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48 comments
Latest by phor11: Surely if Daryl is telling the truth about the texting back and forth, it will be extremely easy for him to prove.Then this lawsuit will be over, just like Nicole's Marriage. more »
comcast
GigaOm is reporting that Comcast has created its own wireless division and is bringing the pieces together to jump into the wireless biz to offer quadruple play bundle competition (TV, landline, internet, wireless) against Verizon and AT&T. Speculation is that they could buddy up with a WiMax deal, or flat-out buy Sprint (more likely) or T-Mobile (less likely). Usually more competition is more better, but not sure what'll come out of this Pandora's box. I'm sure the FCC will love it though. Update: A tipster tells us that the wireless move will be under their Fancast brand, which is currently the name of their online video site. Smart, avoids the negative Comcast connotations. [GigaOM]
Comcast Entering the Wireless Biz to Take on Verizon and AT&T
GigaOm is reporting that Comcast has created its own wireless division and is bringing the pieces together to jump into the wireless biz to offer quadruple play bundle competition (TV, landline, internet, wireless) against Verizon and AT&T. Speculation is that they could buddy up with a WiMax deal, or flat-out buy Sprint (more likely) or T-Mobile (less likely). Usually more competition is more better, but not sure what'll come out of this Pandora's box. I'm sure the FCC will love it though. Update: A tipster tells us that the wireless move will be under their Fancast brand, which is currently the name of their online video site. Smart, avoids the negative Comcast connotations. [GigaOM]
4:59 PM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By matt buchanan
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31 comments
Latest by SneakerFiend: Its way more likely that they will bundle up with sprint. Comcast is about speed (according to them) and well EV-DO on sprint's network being run off of the mogul is super fast. And didnt comcast in the past want to buddy more »
laptops
An Acer Aspire 5920 With Built-in WiMax Cometh
The latest laptop to feature built-in WiMax comes from Acer in the form of an updated Aspire 5920. According to InfoWorld, plans are to sell it through "Sprint Nextel and other companies" along with WiMax service in a manner similar to mobile phone service packages. Unfortunately, no information has been made available about the laptop itself or how much all of this will cost. Acer hopes to deliver the laptop by the end of the year. [InfoWorld]
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Sprint is providing 600 phones to the Archdiocese of New York for the Pope's visit. In addition, "the Pope's caravan will be tracked through Actsoft's Comet Tracker GPS solution loaded on Sprint phones, transmitting data over a secured network in near real-time for optimum security and accuracy." That's right: the Pope uses Sprint. I don't think there's a more badass celebrity endorsement than that, do you? I can't wait for the ad campaign.
Sprint Hooks the Pope Up with Phones; Holiest Celebrity Endorsement Ever
Sprint is providing 600 phones to the Archdiocese of New York for the Pope's visit. In addition, "the Pope's caravan will be tracked through Actsoft's Comet Tracker GPS solution loaded on Sprint phones, transmitting data over a secured network in near real-time for optimum security and accuracy." That's right: the Pope uses Sprint. I don't think there's a more badass celebrity endorsement than that, do you? I can't wait for the ad campaign.
4:30 PM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By Adam Frucci
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70 comments
Latest by robinandtami: It's really a total waste of time to debate which religions are "right." Noone knows, and noone ever will. If you must believe; just believe what lifts you and inspires you to be a better person, and don't worry about more »
giz explains
We've been talking a lot about emerging mobile tech lately, tossing around crazy acronyms and words like WiMax, LTE, 3G, G-Spot, EDGE and whatnot. A lot of you probably already know this stuff cold, but in case you don't, here's the quick and dirty guide to what you need to know.
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Mobile Term Madness: LTE, WiMax, EV-DO and More Explained
We've been talking a lot about emerging mobile tech lately, tossing around crazy acronyms and words like WiMax, LTE, 3G,
2:00 PM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By matt buchanan
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32 comments
Latest by Faforce: How do I know if my phone is on GPRS or Edge? My phone is capable of both, no icon comes up to tell me anything. Otherwise, great guide. Cleared up a lot. Thank you more »
rumor smashed
Rumor Smashed: LG Voyager NOT Coming to Sprint or AT&T
Earlier this week, we posted a rumor about the possibility of the LG Voyager coming to Sprint and AT&T. We finally got in touch with LG reps, who told us the rumor is false, false, false. They say they have no intention of bringing the Voyager to Sprint, AT&T or any other carrier and don't know how the rumor started. [LG Voyager on Giz]
12:50 PM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Adrian Covert
1,732 views,
8 comments
cellphones
LG Voyager Coming to Sprint and AT&T?
According to Korean news outlet Electronic Times, an LG offical has been quoted on record as saying the LG Voyager will be coming to AT&T and Sprint sometime this year. The phone has sold 1.1 million units as a Verizon exclusive with its touchscreen front and flip-open keyboard. IntoMobile questions the success the Voyager would have against the iPhone on AT&T's network, as the two phones are in direct competition against each other. Going to Sprint would also put the Voyager in a cat fight against the recently launched Samsung Instinct. We have yet to hear officially from LG on the matter, so for now, we'll file this under rumor. [Electronic Times via Into Mobile]
7:08 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Adrian Covert
3,187 views,
21 comments
Latest by tetrapod: @nitefire77: It's one thing to say the Voyager is better, but to call the Iphone crap is just plain ignorant. I've used them both side by side for hours, and the only two things better about the Voyager are the keyboard, and more »
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Sprint Licenses Visual Voicemail, Can Use It Without Being Sued
When I groped Sprint's Instinct at CTIA and was flipping through the features, one of the reps made sure to show me visual voicemail—a necessity for any device taking on the iPhone. Apparently, he didn't just mean visual voicemail in the generic sense, it's the real, patented deal, licensed from Klausner—who's currently suing the balls off of Apple and AT&T for patent infringement. Smart move, since they'll likely win the suit, given that RIM, AOL and Vonage, among others have also paid to license the patent. Course, the Instinct's still no iPhone-killer. [Forbes, Thanks John]
1:55 PM on Mon Apr 7 2008
By matt buchanan
3,469 views,
29 comments
Latest by mobilelite: its not visual voicemail unless you can READ it. SimulScribe came out with visual voicemail you can Read and listen to way before the iPhone even came out. free trail on their site simulscribe.com more »
