By: Juan July 28th, 2009
Award given to Sprint for world’s first commercial launch of femtocell, allowing customers to get enhanced wireless coverage at home.
Sprint announced it has received a Femtocell Industry Award for its August 2008 launch of the world’s first commercially available femtocell, AIRAVE by Samsung. AIRAVE acts like a mini cell tower that works with any Sprint phone and a broadband Internet connection to provide enhanced in-home wireless coverage.1 Given by the Femto Forum, a global organization founded in 2007 to promote femtocell deployment worldwide, the Femtocell Industry Awards recognize outstanding achievement within, and contributions to, the femtocell industry.
By: Juan July 28th, 2009
Sprint Exclusive NFL Content Delivered over America’s Most Dependable 3G Network Gives Fantasy Football Players and Fans Unequaled Mobile Access to the NFL.
Just in time for the start of training camp for NFL teams across the country, Sprint announced that its exclusive NFL Mobile Live application is now available on the Palm® Pre™ phone.
NFL Mobile Live, the only wireless source for complete, live access to NFL action, was sent to Palm Pre customers as part of an over-the-air software update from Palm. When customers accept the update to Palm webOS™ 1.1.0, NFL Mobile Live is automatically installed. Once installed, customers can use Palm Pre’s universal search to locate the application by simply typing NFL on their keyboard from the main screen or launcher, and then tapping the NFL icon to open the application.
By: Juan July 28th, 2009
Sprint has decided to expand its prepaid mobile services, as it signed a $483 million deal on Tuesday to acquire Virgin Mobile. The move adds 5 million subscribers to its previously held 49 million. Sprint sees the prepaid market as a more lucritive one in today’s economy, as well as a way to introduce new customers to the Sprint brand.
Though Virgin Mobile will be owned by Sprint Nextel, it will keep its name and remain seperate from Sprint’s existing Boost Mobile brand. The two brands use different Sprint networks and different phone models (Virgin uses Kyocera and Samsung phones on Sprint’s 3G CDMA network, Boost uses Motorola phones on Sprint’s iDEN network).
