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Rachelle Dragani
Clearwire Board Gives Nod to Sweeter Sprint Bid
05/22/13 11:33 AM PT | E-Commerce Times | 433 Words

Clearwire's special committee and its board of directors recommended that shareholders approve Sprint's increased offer to buy the remaining half of the company. Sprint already owns about 50 percent of Clearwire. It upped its bid to purchase the remaining stake by 14...

Rachelle Dragani
Dish Eyes LightSquared's Wireless Spectrum
05/21/13 12:36 PM PT | E-Commerce Times | 595 Words

Those efforts to form partnerships within the industry also seemed apparent last month when the satellite provider offering to buy Sprint for $25.5 billion.

Dish's offer, despite being unsolicited and somewhat of a surprise, nonetheless followed the trend of consolidation in...

Peter Suciu
Wall Street Gives New T-Mobile Thumbs-up
05/01/13 2:26 PM PT | E-Commerce Times | 709 Words

Metro Moves
While there has been speculation that perhaps T-Mobile and No. 3 carrier Sprint would merge, the acquisition of MetroPCS seems to be a more logical move, as it opens up business opportunities that might not have come with...

Erika Morphy
MetroPCS Shareholders Bless T-Mobile Union
04/25/13 12:22 PM PT | E-Commerce Times | 594 Words

Other deals are still cooking -- such as the rival bidding for Sprint Nextel by SoftBank and Dish Network. There could even be room for further consolidation between the company that loses the bid for Sprint and T-Mobile-MetroPCS.

In the end, it...

Rachelle Dragani
Zact Connects Consumers to Customizable Wireless Plans
05/14/13 12:06 PM PT | E-Commerce Times | 791 Words

While Zact might be full of options for monthly payments, its availability is currently limited to Sprint, and Zact users will have to buy one of two LG handset models - either the Optimus Elite or the Optimus Viper 4G LTE...

Harry Wang
Wanted in Healthcare: More Wireless Devices for In-Home Patients
04/27/13 5:00 AM PT | E-Commerce Times | 919 Words

Orange and Sprint support vital-sign monitoring devices for IDEAL LIFE that can track and help manage chronic conditions such as diabetes and congested heart failure.

Sprint, through BodyMedia, supports connected fitness devices that collect and track fitness progress toward consumers' established...

Jeff Kagan
CTIA's Eye-Opening Competition
04/25/13 5:00 AM PT | E-Commerce Times | 895 Words

Handsets include the new HTC One, LG Sprint 4G, Doro PhoneEasy, Blackberry Z10, Samsung Galaxy S4, Nokia Lumia 920, and Samsung Galaxy Note II.

Wireless is key to areas like security, fraud and privacy; green telecom and smart energy solutions; machine-to-machine...

Patrick Nelson
GrooVeIP's a Great Backup for Minute-Slurping Calls
05/10/13 5:00 AM PT | LinuxInsider | 770 Words

So far so good, and I've found GrooVeIP call quality to often sound better than the Sprint mobile network I've been using.

A separate dialer means you can choose on a per-call-basis between native outbound calling, or GV via GrooVeIP.

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Rachelle Dragani
Q1 Wireless Gains Can't Help AT&T Chase Down Verizon
04/24/13 11:28 AM PT | E-Commerce Times | 595 Words

AT&T is showing it can outcompete T-Mobile and Sprint , but it hasn't been able to win against the nation's largest provider.

With the market becoming more saturated, well-established companies like AT&T must switch focus with their strategy, said Jeff Kagan ,...

Richard Adhikari
Dish Stirs the Pot With $25B Sprint Bid
04/16/13 9:53 AM PT | E-Commerce Times | 675 Words

... Network set up a battle with SoftBank for ownership of Sprint after it bid US$25.5 billion for the company on Monday. The bid consists of $17.3 billion in cash and $8.2 billion in stock. That works out to a combined premium of...

Patrick Nelson
Preparing for a Disaster: Keeping Communications Alive
04/19/13 5:00 AM PT | TechNewsWorld | 720 Words

... Sprint recently presented a mock-up Emergency Response Team deployment of its technology at the Los Angeles International Airport, LAX. Its gear is oriented toward widespread natural disaster communications failures rather than short-term outages or network congestion like that experienced after the Boston...

Jeff Kagan
Wireless: Fertile Ground for Wheeling and Dealing
04/18/13 5:00 AM PT | E-Commerce Times | 866 Words

... to countless conversations with reporters, I have developed a crystal clear idea of why Dish Network and SoftBank want to acquire Sprint Nextel . It has less to do with wireless carrier ambitions, and much more to do with the future --...

Rachelle Dragani
T-Mobile Deal's Fate Now in MetroPCS Investors' Hands
03/13/13 1:32 PM PT | E-Commerce Times | 821 Words

"A merger would give T-Mobile more resources, more scale and more spectrum, but there is always a risk of merging any two wireless companies that don't have compatible technology," Boyland told the E-Commerce Times. "That ruined Sprint Nextel in the past because...

Patrick Nelson
Consumer Signal Booster: An Electronic Gadget Grows Up
02/26/13 5:00 AM PT | TechNewsWorld | 975 Words

Major carriers like Verizon , T-Mobile , Sprint and AT&T have already agreed to approve devices that meet Network Protection Standards, according to the FCC's ruling docket.

As long as signal-boosting devices are approved, AT&T, for one, is OK with the...

Jeff Kagan
The Wild and Wonderful Future of Wireless
04/11/13 5:00 AM PT | E-Commerce Times | 1500 Words

Sprint Nextel is once again becoming a good carrier. It has put up a valiant fight over recent years to regain market share, but it is still struggling for growth. Now it wants to merge with Softbank. If this deal is approved,...

Richard Adhikari
At 40, Cellphones Are Sexier but Still Lousy Conversationalists
04/03/13 2:09 PM PT | TechNewsWorld | 704 Words

Sanyo brought out the first cellphone with a built-in camera, the SCP-5300, which was released in the U.S. by Sprint .

Then came the iPhone in 2007, adding various built-in sensors and a large touchscreen to the mix. It was the first...

Jeff Kagan
Samsung's Galaxy S4 Dims Apple's Glow
03/21/13 5:00 AM PT | E-Commerce Times | 932 Words

A few years ago -- before the great smartphone rush -- I met several high-level Samsung senior executives at a small Sprint Nextel event in Las Vegas. At that time, Samsung was building its brand in the space, but it still was...

Erika Morphy
FTC Gives HTC a Good Shaking Over Bungled Security
02/25/13 4:10 PM PT | E-Commerce Times | 626 Words

Beginning in 2009, HTC began embedding IQ diagnostics software on Android-based mobile devices and Windows Mobile-based devices at the direction of network operators Sprint and AT&T . The carriers were using Carrier IQ to collect a variety of information.

"In order...

Jeff Kagan
Sprint May Not Be Able to Match the iPhone's Pace
08/09/12 5:00 AM PT | E-Commerce Times | 1424 Words

... both Verizon and AT&T rapidly build out their 4G LTE networks in preparation for Apple's launch of the next iPhone this fall, Sprint Nextel is in a very distant third place. The big question is can it keep up? The answer depends...

Jeff Kagan
Solving the Sprint Problem
05/24/12 5:00 AM PT | E-Commerce Times | 1470 Words

Why do some companies, like AT&T and Verizon , seem to hit the ball out of the park, while Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile keep striking out? And what can they do about it?

My Pick of the Week is an interesting trend...

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