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• As Contracts Move To Rival Carriers, Sprint's Loss Expands

  PaidContent - 2009-10-29

  Sprint (NYSE: S) has seen its customers continue to flock to rivals like AT&T (NYSE: T), which have added more customers thanks to its exclusive relationship with Apple’s iPhone, and as a result, saw its Q3 loss widen to $478 million from last year’s $384 million. Revenues fell as...

  Tags: Revenue, NYSE Euronext, AT&T Corp., Sprint Communications, Carrier, Operational Accounting, Finance, Mobile, Money, Earnings, Companies, SprintNextel, David Kaplan

• An Update on 'Take Back the Beep'

  BNET - 2009-08-14

  Last month, I wrote about David Pogue's "Take Back the Beep" campaign, an effort to get cell-phone companies to remove or make optional those incredibly annoying, 15-second recorded instructions ("Press 5 to send a numeric page," etc.) that accompany most people's voicemail. Those useless memos have long...

  Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., T-Mobile, Voicemail, AT&T Corp., Instruction, Sprint Communications, Carrier, Telecommunications, CC Holland

• Report: More Job And Price Cuts On The Way For Sprint

  Content Next - 2008-12-08

  With not enough employees taking Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel up on its voluntary buyout offer, the latest analyst speculation is guessing that the carrier will put up to 10 percent of its workforce out on the street after the holidays. It appears everything is on the table as Sprint...

  Tags: Job, Sprint Communications, Carrier, Companies, Operators, SprintNextel, Money, VC M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions, Matt Kapko, Sprint Nextel Corp., AT&T Corp.

• Sprint Nextel May Outsource Thousands Of Jobs

  Content Next - 2008-11-19

  Outsourcing is now standard among cellphone carriers, whether it's for call centers or retail sales. But as Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel looks for ways to right its listing ship, it is mulling a fairly dramatic outsourcing effort that could involve thousands of its IT and network-operations employees, the Kansas...

  Tags: Job, Network, Sprint Nextel Corp., Outsource, Sprint Communications, Carrier, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Matt Kapko, Companies, Operators, SprintNextel

• FCC Burns The Near-Midnight Oil As Votes Are Tallied

  - 2007-09-17

  It's gotten to be a habit at the Federal Communications Commission FCC to push back the normal start time (9:30 a.m. or 10 a.m.) of its monthly open meeting, but the agency really pushed the envelope, keeping the votes and reporters on hold until 8:45 p.m. last...

  Tags: carrier, commission, compliance, E911, FCC, Government, Sprint Communications, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS

• Sprint, T–Mobile: Local carriers drag feet

  - 2007-01-15

  If you're ditching your home phone to go wireless only, your local phone company has your number. The problem, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile say, is the local phone giants don't want to give that number up. In a recent petition to the Federal Communications Commission, the two cellphone carriers say...

  Tags: carrier, FCC, Government, mobile, phone, Sprint Communications, T-Mobile, The Yankee Group, WIRELESS

• Sprint’s NextLeap in Wireless: WiMax

  - 2006-10-01

  Sprint Nextel has given WiMax technology a green light, becoming the first major U.S. carrier to back WiMax for its fourth-generation (4G) wireless data network. Sprint, the third-largest U.S. mobile operator, plans to start rolling out the WiMax network in late 2007 and hopes to reach as many as 100...

  Tags: carrier, network, Sprint Communications, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, WIRELESS

• How Vital is Data?(telecommunications industry)

  - 2006-09-01

  By Brad Smith Wireless data's becoming a trigger for carriers' revenue streams. All you need to do is look at the latest financial results to see that wireless data is becoming more important to operators -...

  Tags: carrier, network, NETWORKING, Sprint Communications, telecommunications, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, WIRELESS

• Sprint Nextel ad campaign talks up network 'power'.(News)

  - 2006-08-21

  Byline: KELLY HILL Sprint Nextel Corp. is launching a new advertising campaign focused on the quality and capabilities of its network. The new tagline for the carrier's ads will be: "Sprint. Power Up.'' ...

  Tags: advertisement, carrier, network, Sprint Communications, Sprint Nextel Corp.

• Sprint plays kingmaker in mobile TV with IPWireless trial

  - 2006-03-01

  Sprint plays kingmaker in mobile TV with IPWireless trial Since Sprint Nextel merged and became aggressive about plans to build out its large holdings in 2.5GHz, it has been assumed that these plans would rest on WiMAX. The telco is in close alliances and equipment trials with two pre-WiMAX vendors,...

  Tags: carrier, IPWireless, mobile, Sprint Communications, TVs, WiMAX, WIRELESS