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BlackBerry Curve 8350i Push-to-Talk Smartphone for Sprint

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Photo: BlackBerry Curve 8350i Push-to-Talk Smartphone for Sprint Photo 1Sprint today announced the BlackBerry Curve 8350i, the newest Nextel Direct Connect-capable BlackBerry smartphone. The BlackBerry Curve 8350i is the latest BlackBerry smartphone to use push-to-talk technology. With Direct Connect, customers can connect within the US and to users in ...

Motorola i576 Rugged Push-to-Talk Clamshell Shown for Sprint

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Photo: Motorola i576 Rugged Push-to-Talk Clamshell Shown for Sprint Photo 1Sprint today displayed the Motorola i576, a new rugged iDEN push-to-talk clamshell. Certified to military specification 810F for dust, shock and vibration, the i576 is a stylish clamshell with rich features. It delivers Nextel Direct Connect services for ...

Verizon Wireless Tops Wireless Call Quality Study

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Verizon Wireless, Alltel, Sprint Nextel, and U.S. Cellular each ranked highest in wireless call quality in their respective regions, according to a J.D. Power and Associates study released on Wednesday. Verizon Wireless lead the way with the highest ranking in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, West, and tied with Sprint Nextel in the Southwest Region. Alltel ranked the ...

NFL Mobile Live Lets Sprint Users Watch Real-Time NFL Games

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Sprint and the National Football League today introduced NFL Mobile Live, a wireless service for live access to NFL action. With NFL Mobile Live, customers can listen to live radio broadcasts of every NFL game throughout the 2008 regular season. They can also watch all eight Thursday Night Football telecasts beginning Nov. 6. ...

Sanyo Katana Eclipse from Sprint has Lighting Effects

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Photo: Sanyo Katana Eclipse from Sprint has Lighting Effects Photo 1Sanyo today unveiled the Sanyo Katana Eclipse, its first multimedia phone to combine unique lighting effects with Sprint's Mobile Broadband Network. The Katana Eclipse's unique illumination capabilities let users assign lighting effects to specific callers, alerts and messages. ...

Motorola Names Qualcomm COO to Head Cell Phone Division

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Motorola today named Sanjay Jha, Qualcomm's former chief operating officer, to head its mobile devices business. Jha will also be co-chief executive of the parent company, sharing the responsibility with incumbent Greg Brown. Brown will take responsibility for Motorola's other two divisions. Schaumburg, Ill.-based Motorola's handset division has been posting heavy losses for the last few years. The handset unit had a smash hit with the RAZR phone in 2004 and ...

Judge Rules Sprint Early Terimation Fees are Illegal

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Early termination fees that cell phone carriers charge customers who break service contracts took a big hit when a judge said charges by Sprint Nextel violate California state law. In a tentative ruling issued today, the judge said Sprint will have to pay $18.3 million to customers who sued over the fees and credit $54.8 million to those who were charged but did not pay the fees. The same judge is considering ...

Sprint Nextel to Sell Cell Towers for $670 Million

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Sprint Nextel has agreed to sell nearly all its cell phone towers to a private-equity-backed firm called TowerCo in a deal that will generate about $670 million in cash for the struggling wireless carrier. The nation's third-largest wireless provider said Wednesday it plans to lease space on the towers for its wireless phone and broadband operations, which it said was cheaper than owning the towers outright. In recent years, wireless carriers have ...

Verizon Settles Lawsuit Over Early Termination Fees

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Verizon Wireless has agreed to pay $21 million to settle a lawsuit filed by California customers upset with the company's early termination fees. Early termination fees, charged when a wireless subscriber breaks a contract before it ends, have been in the sights of the Federal Communications Commission, where Chairman Kevin Martin wants to construct a national framework for the way they are assessed. Wireless carriers have long enforced penalties of as much ...

Sprint to Launch Advanced Push-To-Talk Phones

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

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