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Sprint’s device strategy centered on the iPhone

Published on: 8th November, 2011

During the recent Strategy Update event of Sprint in New York, the company outlined that the iPhone was the core of its future device strategy. It reiterated that the absence of an iPhone was the main reason for customers leaving the carrier. Dan Hesse, Sprint CEO, claimed that the iPhone would bring customers back. He [...]

Seven sates joined a DOJ lawsuit aiming to block T-Mobile and AT&T

Published on: 29th September, 2011

There is increased resistance to AT&T’s buyout of T-Mobile after seven states recently joined the DOJ lawsuit intending to lock the proposed deal. Washington, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Massachusetts, Illinois and California all agreed that such a merger would reduce competition. Officials from the Department of Justice were very pleased to receive this kind of [...]

Over 250,000 Airave femtocells sold by Sprint

Published on: 31st March, 2011

Sprint announced to have distributed its Airave femtocells to more than 250,000 of its customers nationwide. Iyad Tarazi, sprint’s vice president of network development and engineering, said this number was expected to reach about one million over the next years, as comments were made at the FierceWireless Path to 4G conference. The Femto Forum suggests [...]

Verizon not interested to counter AT&T by acquiring Sprint

Published on: 24th March, 2011

Wireless chief of Verizon Dan Mead minimized speculation that his carrier would intend to buy Sprint as a direct response to the acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T. he claimed that his company would rather try to be profitable first and only after that would adopt strategies to get more market share. He also mentioned to [...]

Sprint softens Evo Shift 4G ad to please Apple?

Published on: 31st January, 2011

Sprint may have probably deliberately toned down an anti-iPhone talk in an ad for the Evo Shift 4G with the intention of courting Apple. The spot focuses on multiple laudatory quotes related to the phone, the last of them touting the Android phone as being superior to Apple’s iPhone 4. it is unclear when the [...]

BlackBerry PlayBook will get 4G on Sprint network in summer

Published on: 11th January, 2011

Research in Motion recently confirmed the possibility of a 4G-capable version of its BlackBerry PlayBook on Sprint. The seven-inch tablet will have a new version with built in WiMAX meant to improve the speed of downloads for the dual-core tablet. However, the new model of the slate is not expected to ship until this summer. [...]

Windows Phone 7 will launch on Verizon and Sprint in January

Published on: 20th December, 2010

A recent report confirmed earlier rumors that both Verizon and Sprint would receive Windows Phone 7 devices soon. According to the unnamed source, it is not clear if the handsets for these carriers would be unveiled at CES. What the devices would be is also unknown, but there are some clues about the HTC Trophy [...]

Sprint CEO admits iPad helpful, not commenting on iPhone

Published on: 1st November, 2010

Sprint has been collecting the rewards of the iPad although an official deal is not in place, said Dan Hesse, chief of the carrier, in an interview. Spint’s CEO said that most of the iPads were Wi-Fi models and he had remarked a boost to sales of the Sierra Wireless Overdrive. Good for getting the [...]

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab with 4G may arrive to Sprint in November

Published on: 6th September, 2010

According to a recent brief rumor, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab could get a unique-to-Sprint model. The tablet’s CDMA-friendly variant is due for Sprint, as soon as November, as an unnamed BGR source declared. If the rumor is true, the tablet will benefit from both 3G through EVDO and 4G through WiMAX; this would make Samsung’s Galaxy [...]

Sprint’s 4G now available to seven cities across the USA

Published on: 14th July, 2010

Sprint’s 4G mobile data service has now been brought to seven more cities around the world: Rochester and Syracuse in New York, Merced and Visalia in California, Eugene in Oregon, but also Tri-Cities and Yakima in Washington. The high-speed service from Sprint is currently available in 43 markets, with even more launches; this includes cities [...]

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