Viewers of Telemundo's soap opera, "Sin Senos No Hay Paraiso" ("Without Breasts There is No Paradise) who are also Sprint (NYSE: S) subscribers, will be the first to help decide the fate of lead character Catalina in an attempt to "get the audience more engaged," Telemundo digital media and...
Clearwire had a lot to be thankful for last week when it announced that its six-month long process of merging with Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel was completed on the day after Thanksgiving. Today, the company provided details on the close, including it's plans for the upcoming months as the...
FCC chairman Kevin Martin has dropped his controversial proposal to overhaul telecoms rules from today's meeting of the commission. Martin was hoping to get a vote on the controversial Intercarrier Compensation rules and Universal Fund, but the opposition was too much to ignore. As the AP notes, not only...
The National Football League has confirmed that it won't be putting out an iPhone version of its NFL app anytime soon, despite the relative popularity of the Major League Baseball's app for the device, reports alleyinsider.com. Why? The NFL already has a lucrative, exclusive deal with wireless carrier Sprint...
Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) is one step closer to finalizing its merger with Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel's WiMax division after it came to an agreement with iPCS, which filed a temporary injunction against the joint venture, alleging that the new Clearwire will be violating a deal it has with Sprint...
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...
Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) shareholders approved the company's merger with Sprint's WiMax business today during a special meeting. Clearwire said it's on pace to close the transaction by the end of the year, at which point the new Clearwire will receive $3.2 billion in fresh capital from Intel (NSDQ: INTC),...
The head of Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel's CDMA business, John Garcia, is leaving, WSJ reports. No reason was given for his departure and a company spokesperson declined to comment. Sprint's CDMA business makes up 70 percent of its customer base. Keith Cowan, president of strategy and corporate development, has...
There's four major wireless carriers in the U.S., and all but Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) have a default mobile search provider. Both AT&T (NYSE: T) and T-Mobile USA use Yahoo! (NSDQ: YHOO) and Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel uses Google (NSDQ: GOOG). With those three tied up, it leaves a...
-- Orange Launching 60 TV Channels In France: Orange is gearing up to launch a mobile TV service in France that will feature 60 channels of high-quality video on the carrier's 3G and UMA platform, Unstrung reports. The service is the first of its kind to use 3G and...
Sprint (NYSE: S) just can't get a break. A fresh class-action lawsuit is accusing the carrier of cheating thousands of retail store employees out of sales commissions due to a computer snafu, The Kansas City Star reports. A Sprint spokesman told us the matter is still very early in...
-- Mywaves Adds Indian Studio Content To Platform: Mukta Arts, a 30-year-old film studio in India, is bringing its content to mywaves to promote upcoming films and pictures from its existing catalog. The new channel will include trailers, behind-the-scenes interviews, music videos, outtakes from films and promotions for upcoming...
When Steve Elfman, one of Motricity's highest-ranking executives, left to join Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel earlier this year, it appeared to be a bad sign for Motricity, which had just paid $135 million for Elfman's company, InfoSpace (NSDQ: INSP) Mobile. But in an interview with us a couple months...
SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) has decided not to form a joint venture or collaborate on business projects with Sprint Nextel, according to Reuters, which referenced a report in the Yonhap News. Sprint rejected a $5 billion investment by SK and a group of private equity firms in 2007, but...
As expected, the FCC has approved two major wireless deals: Verizon's acquisition of Alltel (NYSE: AT), thereby creating the country's largest wireless carrier, and Sprint's plan to spin off and merge its WiMAX network with Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR). The approvals aren't much of a surprise from an agency that's...
In a critical day for the wireless industry, the FCC made three sweeping decisions today, pushing through two mergers and the approval of the controversial white spaces issue, which will allow for an alternative U.S. wireless broadband network. Perhaps, the Republican-led FCC felt it could spend all of its...
Billing firm Amdocs has signed an agreement to acquire Changing Worlds, which offers everything from personalized portals to mobile advertising and search. Under the deal, Amdocs will acquire all of the private company's shares for $60 million in cash. Additional payments may be made later based on certain performance...
Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel's partnership with the National Football League, which is valued at almost $500 million over five years, is finally kicking into second gear. For the remaining eight weeks of the season the carrier will be broadcasting games that were previously only available on the NFL Network....
Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel reported a third quarter loss of $326 million on revenues of $8.81 billion, as 1.3 million customers, which fled the troubled carrier. The loss amounts to 11 cents a share, far below analyst expectations of three cents a share profit. Sales also failed...
Turns out Barack Obama's campaign wasn't the only one using text messaging during the elections. Wireless subscribers used election day to send them, as well, leading to at least a 10 percent spike above normal, according to three of the top four U.S. carriers. All the carriers extrapolated data...
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