By: Matthew Pankey October 29th, 2009
Sprint has done much better this time than they have have in the past. They have only lost 135,000 net retailer subscribers.
““Sprint achieved its best net retail subscriber results in more than two years and improvement in both post-paid and prepaid gross subscriber additions in the third quarter,” said Dan Hesse, Sprint Nextel CEO. “Sprint is beginning to attract more customers with the industry’s best device line-up and the clarity and simplicity of our offers, seven sequential quarters of improvement in customer care satisfaction, a network declared to be most reliable by PC World magazine, and recognition from Newsweek magazine which ranked Sprint 15th of 500 companies on its 2009 Green Ratings list — the only telecom company in the Top 100. ”
More at Sprint.
By: Matthew Pankey October 26th, 2009
At only $99 bucks on contract, the Paml Pixi offers WebOS at a bargain price. You’ll get WebOS, a full QWERTY keyboard, a Multi-Touchscreen and a new Facebook app. You can get all this starting on November 15th.
More details from Sprint
and yes, an Everything Data Plan is required.
Per the Sprint statement
“Palm Pixi requires activation on a pricing plan including unlimited data, such as Sprint’s Everything Data plans with Any Mobile, Anytime”
Don’t kill the messenger.
By: Matthew Pankey October 22nd, 2009
Sprint and Clearwire when and where it will launch WiMax service in 2009. Sprint, Clearwire and Comcast will each launch WiMax service in Philadelphia in the next few weeks. Chicago will follow some time in November and the Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., markets will go live in early December. Clearwire and Sprint will also launch 4G service in Charlotte, Greensboro and Raleigh, N.C.; and Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth and San Antonio, Texas, in November. Honolulu and Maui, Hawaii, will be coming in December as well. There is no word on 2010 releases as of yet.
Clearwire info
By: Jeff Estep October 20th, 2009
BGR and Engadget have both reported that T-Mobile is about to announce Project Dark (or Project Black) that includes several new initiatives including installment plans for phone purchases and so called “all you can eat plans” for prices previously unheard of in the post-paid side of the industry. They are also going to be greatly increasing their 3G footprint with internet transfer speed of up to 21Mbps. (CDMA 3G max is 3.1Mbps)
Sprint is currently in no danger of being surpassed by T-Mo as the #3 carrier having tens of million more subscribers. Sprint helped to re-create the currently accepted idea that unlimited isn’t only for large corporations anymore in large part when it announced its “Simply Everything” plans last year and again by recently enhancing its Everything Data to include Any Mobile Anytime allowing unlimited voice calls to any cell phone. This move by T-Mobile has the potential to to bring large numbers of subscribers from other companies seen by consumers as “expensive but worth it”. Stay tuned for details as they emerge.
By: Matthew Pankey October 20th, 2009
Got a Pre? Now you can browse the WebOS applications online. The site offers screen shots and descriptions, but you will still need your phone to access user ratings. Click the link below for more info.
Palm App Catalog
By: Matthew Pankey October 19th, 2009
Today Sprint Nextel and its affiliate iPCS announced that Sprint will buy iPCS for the cool price of $831 million. As part of the acquisition agreement, both parties have agreed to close all pending litigation between them (iPCS has sued Sprint for a number of reasons, mostly citing breach of contract). The deal also puts a halt to Sprint’s planned divestitures of its iDEN network in regions where iPCS operates. Of course this deal is subject to regulatory approval and should be completed later this year or early 2010.
More at Sprint
Update: Apparently iPCS shareholders are not going down without a fight.
Businesswire
By: Matthew Pankey October 16th, 2009
In an interview with Deutsche Telekom CFO Timotheus Hoettges, he has questioned just how competitive The US market is. He seems to think that the four big carriers are locked in combat as far pricing, services and new technology. Saying:
“There are four national players in the U.S. market for 300 million households, while in Europe, where we have 350 million households, there are 50-70 operators,” Hoettges said, after a conference in Frankfurt today. “We believe in our chances of being the challenger.”
So is Sprint safe? Let us know in the comments.
GigaOM
By: Matthew Pankey October 14th, 2009
Released on Boost Mobile last month, the Motorola Debut is now available to Sprint/Nextel customers. Available for $99.99 with a two-year service agreement and a $50 mail-in rebate the Debut is said to be the first slider with Nextel to feature their popular Push-to-Talk service.
Features include a 1.3 megapixel camera, music player with stereo speakers, Bluetooth, GPS Navigation and the ability to swap from a PTT call to a phone call.
More at Sprint
Photo credit: Motorola
By: Juan October 13th, 2009
Seems that the HTC Hero has been shipped with an error that shows that the device cannot connect to EV-DO Rev. A. This is an error that HTC will be addressing soon with an update.
Our sources confirmed that currently, the Hero displays a connection to EV-DO Rev. 0 when in fact it is to the EV-DO Rev. A. Stay tuned for more news on this.
By: Matthew Pankey October 7th, 2009
The new Moment for Sprint. The Moment runs Google’s Android OS with Google mobile services, such as Goggle Search, Maps, Gmail and YouTube. The Moment is a horizontal slider that has a 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen display and has a full QWERTY keyboard. It makes use of an optical joystick for on-screen navigation, is run by an 800Mhz processor, and has WiFi, GPS, a 3.2 megapixel camera with camcorder, and stereo Bluetooth. The Moment will be available November 1 for $180 after a $50 instant savings and a $100 mail-in-rebate, with a two-year contract. Customers can pre-order starting today (10/07/09).
