Details released about Clearwire and Sprint’s 2009 WiMax roll-out.

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

Is T-Mobile Aiming to be the New “Budget Carrier”?

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.

Palm’s WebOS Applications Now Have a Website.

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

Sprint Nextel to Acquire Affiliate iPCS

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

It seems that Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile) has no interest in buying Sprint afterall.

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

Sprint/Nextel introduce Motorola Debut.

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

HTC Hero not EV-DO Rev. A?

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.

Got a Moment? How about a little Android?

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).

Sprint introduces the Intrepid

Sprint introduced the Intrepid, a new smartphone running Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system. The Intrepid has EVDO Rev. A for Sprint’s speedy 3G network, and also comes with quad-band GSM/EDGE radios for international roaming. Some features include a 2.5-inch, 320×240 touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, 3.2 megapixel camera with video capture, support for mircoSD cards up to 32GB, stereo Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. The Intrepid will come with access to the Marketplace for Windows Mobile, Bing search client, and Microsoft’s TellMe and My Phone services, too. The Intrepid will be available starting October 11 for $150 after rebates on contract.

HTC Hero WILL be available to EPRP on Oct 11!!

News was posted at Sprint that the HTC Hero will in fact be available to all “employee” type plans (except SERO) on Oct 11 when the device launches in all normal consumer channels, contrary to earlier info that stated otherwise…Great news for those who have been slobbering over all that Android goodness on Tmo but weren’t on “normal” consumer plans. This handset will have the same plan restrictions as the Pre and Instinct so SERO account holders will have to change plans or choose a different phone.