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Palm Pre Plus, Palm Pixi Plus Prices Publicized
Palm lovers who have been waiting eagerly for a wireless network other than Sprint to strike a deal with the company got their wish last week at the Consumer Electronics Show. Today, they’re getting another wish granted: Prices for the new Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus have been released, …(167 words) ... »
Palm Pre Plus, Palm Pixi Plus Prices Publicized
Palm lovers who have been waiting eagerly for a wireless network other than Sprint to strike a deal with the company got their wish last week at the Consumer Electronics Show. Today, they’re getting another wish granted: Prices for the new Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus have been released, …(167 words) Related Topics: consumer,... »
Bye Bye Sprint, No Looking Back
Joel West submits: My blog posting Monday about switching to Verizon (VZ) after 12+ years with Sprint (S) — as posted on Seeking Alpha — brought an email Tuesday from someone at Sprint financial PR which said in part: I saw the post in which you were trying to come up with a... »
Survey Says: Verizon Wireless Is Top Carrier
The first-ever wireless carriers survey from Zagat puts Verizon at the top of the heap. The company got feedback from more than 2,300 wireless customers who rated Verizon, ATT, Sprint and T-Mobile on key performance aspects: reliability, coverage, products, value and customer service. Verizon Wireless scored a 22 (the average …(225 words) Related Topics: carrier,... »
Windstream launches new VoIP/SIP service
Windstream is launching a new VoIP and SIP Trunking solution called Dynamic Office-SIP. The tier 2 telco’s business services solution will combine voice, data, high-speed Internet with IP communications using SIP to provide cost-savings over legacy phone systems. The new IP communications offering provides customers with access to Windstream’s private IP network allowing customers to... »
Will WalMart Be the Next WiMax Tower Host?
A not so wild report has WalMart hosting towers for Sprint/Clearwire's rollout of WiMax. I don't think the report is that far fetched. Having experimented with Mobile WiMax last week in Las Vegas I have to say the experience on the ground and when driving around was one that I'd like to repeat. Related Topics: hosting,... »
My Next Phone Will Be on Verizon
Joel West submits: For more than a year, I’ve been mulling over which mobile platform (and carrier) to choose, given that my original choice has reached the end of the line — and so I’m gonna have to pay switching costs anyway. I’ve been with Sprint (S) for more than a decade. Since 2001, I’ve... »
Sprint in ‘Overdrive’: Touts 3G/4G Wireless Wi-Fi Router
Consumer Electronics Show (CES) — A new wireless router from Sprint will let you share your wireless broadband connection from one Wi-Fi device to another.It’s called the Overdrive, and it’s good where either 3G or 4G service is available. You can connect as many as five devices that are enabled …(141 words) Related Topics: 3g,... »
What Palm Needs to Do to Bounce Back
The last few weeks have been dominated by speculation over two things: the Google Phone and the Apple tablet. One is now a reality. The other is still a myth. And beyond this twin-headed meme, attention has been paid to little else. Forgotten is the fact that BlackBerry is still outselling its rivals and... »
Sprint, Samsung to Trial DTV
Sprint-Nextel Corp. will begin trials of mobile digital television in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore markets during the first quarter of 2010. The service will be available on the Android-powered Samsung Moment.The handset, which boasts a 3.2-inch AMOLED display screen for crisp colors, bright pictures outdoors, and wide viewing angles, …(273 words) Related Topics: handset,... »
My WiMax Experience
I was in Las Vegas a few days ago and got to experience Mobile WiMax for the first time via the Sprint/Clearwire network that's been installed there. My reaction. Think the best of WiFi and a MiFi all rolled into one. Speeds were solid and I was able to make VoIP and Skype calls, including video,... »
Qualcomm Continues to Provide Talent to the Rest of the Industry
Joel West submits: On the day before Christmas, Qualcomm (QCOM) announced that its COO Len Lauer is leaving to become CEO “at another company.” Although his hiring was a big deal three years ago, I didn’t see him quoted a lot during his time as group president and later COO. I kept waiting for someone... »
The State of Google Voice on The iPhone
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) sums up fairly concisely just what is up with the status of Google Voice on the iPhone. If Google GIVES the Nexus One to all GoogleVoice customers, with some kind of incentive to move to T-Mobile, it will initially be AT&T who suffers. Do you remember the old days when... »
Top Stories of 2009: SIP trunking and Unified Communications gain momentum
In 2009 it was hard to look through VoIP news and not bump into another announcement about a SIP or Unified Communications (UC) deal. Both items have gained momentum and are becoming the rule in the VoIP world. According to Infonetics, SIP trunking service revenue is expected to have an 89 percent compound annual growth rate... »
StarTech KVM Console to USB 2.0 Portable Laptop Adapter Review
If you are an IT or network manager you know how frustrating it can be to try and troubleshoot a rackmounted server that doesn’t have a monitor or keyboard hooked up to it. After all, LCD rackmount console can be pretty expensive. Often referred to as “headless servers”, in many cases you... »
Steve Rowley Out at Sprint
Sprint director of indirect channels, Steve Rowley, will be leaving the company at the end of this year. Jaime Jones, senior vice president for general business and public sector, confirmed that Sprint announced a labor force reduction on Nov. 9, “with a goal of really getting to about $350 million …(247 words) ... »
With BendBroadband, HSPA+ Super-fast Wireless Broadband Arrives in the U.S.
BendBroadband, a Bend, Ore.-based cable operator, this morning launched a next-generation wireless broadband network that uses HSPA+ technology, thus becoming the first company in the U.S. to do so. T-Mobile USA has a trial network up and running in Philadelphia, though it has yet to launch a commercial service. HSPA+ is an upgrade to the... »
AT&T Mobile/Wireless – In Spin Control Mode
Let’s face it, AT&T made an error two years ago and miscalculated what the iPhone would mean. I don’t mean that people inside AT&T didn’t know what would happen. They did. Executives inside the mobile division expressed that it would take at least seven billion dollars to double the capacity of their aging mobile... »
Sprint: No Reason to Sell
Jim Van Meerten submits: On Financial Tides I try find stocks I think are the best to buy now but also report on some of the most popular issues. Sprint Nextel (S) has been on the volume leaders list recently. I’m going to look at Sprint’s stats objectively: Has the stock been hitting new highs... »
Verizon, AT&T Wireless Dominance Doesn’t Mean Sprint / T-Mobile Merger Any More Realistic
Tech Confidential submits: As long as Verizon Wireless (VZ) (VOD) and AT&T Inc. (T) continue to expand their dominance of the mobile phone market, speculation about a merger of Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) and Deutsche Telekom (DT) AG’s T-Mobile USA will resonate. Buzz about the creation of "Sprint Nextel T-Mobile USA" resurfaces every few months,... »
HotSpots Are Hot
Let’s face it, the idea of WiFi by the major mobile operators in the USA has been more trial and error, or when they chose to explore it, for the most part it was more like seeing someone dip their toes in the water in the past, as in reality only T-Mobile and to... »
Cramer: The Bulls Charge into Telecom
Ockham Research submits: “Today we saw the bull rotate in telecommunication stocks. Particularly Verizon, AT&T, Windstream, as well as Qwest and Sprint. Close watchers of the show know that we’ve been big fans of the first three for more than a year now…They have gotten so low that their dividends gave you such a... »
The Google Phone
Let's try to clear up the rumor that a Google Phone that reportedly is coming out in January. That is if you can believe any blog that tells you its a rumor. First of, one has to expect that the phone would not be for the traditional mobile network. Honestly if I was Google I'd... »
Sprint Silences iPCS With Close of $831M Takeover
Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) on Friday ended a series of legal battles when it completed the purchase of affiliate iPCS Inc. The Kansas-based wireless carrier received all of the necessary regulatory approvals for the deal on Nov. 25. iPCS was to be delisted from the Nasdaq exchange on Friday evening and, …(212 words) ... »
Sponsored WiFi Access, Sending Party Pays and The Future Of Media
We continue to see more of what I am calling the sponsored model of public WiFi. After all the municipal models failed, with city and county governments in many places buying into a very flawed model that was heavily overplayed by Earthlink and a group of advisors to cities, plus an over dependence on... »
Slap! Sprint Loses “Most Dependable” 3G Claim to Verizon
Like a contestant in a VH1 reality dating show, Verizon Wireless is picking its rivals off, one by one. Fresh from its bloody victory against ATT, wherein it won the right to advertize how crappy the latter’s 3G coverage is, it is now turning its sights to the other big …(289 words) ... »
Sprint Gets All Regulatory Approvals for iPCS Deal
The day after completing its takeover of Virgin Mobile USA, Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) has secured all of the regulatory approvals needed to wrap the acquisition of its affiliate, iPCS Inc., as well. The FCC yesterday approved a spectrum transfer and, on Monday, West Virginia’s public service commission gave the Sprint-iPCS …(160 words) ... »
Sprint Acquires Virgin Mobile USA
Zacks.com submits: Sprint Nextel (S) has officially wrapped up its acquisition of prepaid wireless reseller Virgin Mobile USA (VM). This follows the approval of the transaction by the shareholders of Virgin Mobile USA, which is a joint-venture between UK’s Virgin Group and Sprint. Virgin Mobile USA offers prepaid mobile services to roughly 5.2 million... »
Maine gets $45,000 from Vonage Settlement
According to Maine’s attorney general, the state will get a small chunk from the $3 million multistate settlement with Vonage that was announced last week. Thirty one other states were part of the $3 million settlement due to customer complaints over three main issues: the difficulty of canceling service; a requirement to have a high-speed... »
Will Your Cellular Company Be The Same Company In A Year?
Rethink Wireless has a trolling piece out today about the potential changing landscape in the USA cellular/mobile marketplace. I think we will see a MetroPCS/Leap (i.e. Cricket) link up next year and then a roll up of T-Mobile. Either that or first a roll up into Sprint, and then T-Mobile taking over Sprint and Vodafone... »