(Reuters) – Sprint Nextel Corp agreed to buy United States Cellular Corp businesses in Chicago, St. Louis, central Illinois and three other markets to expand coverage as it upgrades its network. The No. 3 mobile phone service provider said on … Continue reading
Sprint has been the US mobile industry’s foster child for nearly two decades. Will it find a home in Japan’s SoftBank? – By Laurence Capron, Strategy Professor, INSEAD & Will Mitchell, Strategy Professor, Toronto and Duke University – SoftBank has generated headlines this month … Continue reading
September 4, 2012 **Editor’s Note: Please click here for a recap of the biggest channel-impacting mergers of Q2 2012 or here for the biggest M&A during that time in the service-provider and BSS/OSS spaces.** The chance that Sprint will merge with T-Mobile still exists, at least according to one … Continue reading
By David Goldman @CNNMoneyTech May 29, 2012: 4:02 PM ET Sprint plans to shut down the Nextel Network next year. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The Nextel chapter of Sprint’s disastrous 2005 merger is just a year away from coming to a close. Let’s … Continue reading
Faster than a desktop computer! Nimbler than an iPad! It’s not a phone, it’s not a tablet. It’s super phone! Rather than getting smaller, smartphones are getting bigger — and more powerful. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, … Continue reading
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Sprint (S) has been on a seeming death spiral for the past six years. While a decade ago, Sprint was lauded as having the best wireless technology with its CDMA network, the company squandered its lead and now rests as … Continue reading
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced a final rule specifically prohibiting interstate truck and bus drivers from using hand-held cell phones while operating their vehicles. The joint rule from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and the Pipeline and … Continue reading
Here’s a great new commercial from Samsung that pokes fun at the people who camp out overnight waiting for iPhones: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVkH9Hgvda4] … Continue reading
Original story: http://www.businessinsider.com/ios-5-update-2011-11#ixzz1dKkLIS87 Apple just released an update to iOS 5, version 5.0.1, is now live for download. The update fixes the software bugs that caused several iPhone 4S owners to suffer from horrible battery life. Other improvements: New multitasking gestures for the original iPad and a … Continue reading