Nextel News
Wow, Sprint's trying to steal some of that Microsoft-Yahoo! merger thunder, huh? First they hit the headlines as a possible acquisition target for Deutsch Telekom (T-Mobile's parent co.) and now this.
According to the Wall Street Journal (says CrunchGear), the US's #3 mobile carrier is looking to get rid of Nextel after a 2+ year marriage that didn't really do much good for them. Nextel lost almost three and a half million subscribers in '06-'07 and according to CG they're... Addicted to MySpace? Happy to pay for the privilege of checking up on your favorite online friends from your mobile phone? Get ready to save three bucks each month, then, because MySpace Mobile has gone free.
Sprint is promoting free MySpace access for their customers, but in truth the social networking giant's new ad-supported mobile site is free to anyone who wants it. Sprint's making it easier for its customers by including a link to the site on its customer deck (home... No, no, I didn't just mean to call your cell phone dumb. What I meant is that most non-smartphones can't browse the "Real Web" - aka the Web you see on your desktop or laptop computer. While smartphones come with a browser like Internet Explorer or Opera or Apple's Safari that can handle HTML and Javascript and other Real Web goodies, most non smartphones are relegated to WAP browsers. WAP lets you see Web content optimized for mobile phones, and in most cases the carriers use... A few weeks back my man over at Nokia sent me their N810 Internet Tablet to play with (yeah, that same one I watched launch over breakfast last Fall in San Francisco). It's a pretty interesting device, what with its 800 pixel wide, 4.13" touchscreen, slide-down QWERTY keyboard, full Web browser with Flash plug-in, Skype Client, and WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth connectivity... It's not a phone, though, and can't get onto cellular data networks without tethering to a Bluetooth handset. ... Sprint has released a software update to their HTC-built Mogul smartphone which basically doubles the handset's data download speeds - and boosting upload speeds by nearly 8x - by enabling EV-DO Rev. A. The update also enables GPS on the Mogul, which became one of my favorite Windows Mobile devices when I reviewed it last Summer.
This faster, badder, refreshed Mogul now becomes the first phone in the United States to work on an EV-DO Rev. A network, a land until now reserved for... A few weeks back I mentioned that Sprint was offering a $119/month unlimited voice plan in select US markets, this on the heels of MVNO Helio (a Sprint partner) offering a $99 unlimited plan including all you can browse handset data and messaging. Soon after, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon all announced their own special deals on unlimited voice plans, and now Sprint has upped the ante a bit with their newest offer.
Sprint's $99 Simply Everything plan gets you unlimited voice, data,... As reported here last week, all four major US cellular carriers - and a few regional and MVNO outfits, as well - announced unlimited calling plans. While AT&T, VZW, T-Mobile, and Sprint are all offering plans starting at around $100/month, unless you're in dire need of an all-you-can-talk plan right now, you might want to hold off for a bit on signing up for a new plan.
Rumor has it that Sprint may drop the cost of their basic unlimited plan to as little as $60/month within the... Not a week after Sprint SVP Atish Gude gave a Keynote address at CTIA that was all about the wonders that Xohm - Sprint's WiMAX service - will bestow upon businesses and consumers alike in 2008, Sprint and Clearwire have announced their deal to roll out a nationwide WiMAX network is off. According to the Wall Street Journal, the reasons for the breakup are “the complexities of the transaction and the departure last month of (Sprint CEO) Gary Forsee.”
So what now? There are a few... Sprint and AT&T will both soon be seeing some changes at the top of their mobile phone divisions, albeit for very different reasons.
First Sprint CEO Gary Forsee resigned his post under fire from board members, industry analysts, and consumers alike for everything from lousy customer service to losing 337,000 subscribers in the third quarter of this year to investing somewhere around $5 Billion to be the first on the block to offer WiMax. Sprint's search for a new CEO is on,... RESTON, Va. — 04/03/2007 For almost as long as people have been using wireless services, customers have been asking for simple, short and easy-to-read bills. Today, Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) is answering that call with a new bill format that sets the bar higher for the wireless industry.
According to industry studies, billing is one of the top drivers of overall customer satisfaction. And, in a USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll conducted in March 2005, 42 percent of respondents felt that...
Is it time for you to get a new Nextel phone because your original contract is up? Well now those eligible can complete a contract extension of their current Nextel services with a WireFly advertised special. You can complete this process by selecting one of the great Nextel special from WireFly and click “Buy Now from WireFly”.
From the WireFly checkout page you will need to select the yellow box that reads, "Existing Nextel Customers - Get a great new deal on a new phone... OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — 03/21/2007 Sprint (NYSE: S) customers soon will have the power of a new robust GPS-enabled navigation service included at no additional charge in select Sprint data packs. Sprint Navigation powered by TeleNav will give customers the power of a full-featured GPS navigation device right on select Sprint phones, and unlimited use of Sprint Navigation will be included in the new Sprint Power Vision(SM) Navigation Pack, along with two other existing data packs. In addition,... |
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