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News Disney hasn't built its own cellular network but is instead leasing capacity from US service provider Sprint Nextel. You might think kids are too young for mobile phones but your mobile operator doesn't. [10 Apr 2006]
BlackBerry outages 'due to software upgrade'
News Several customers with Cingular, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless' service reported delays, outages and problems with their BlackBerry Internet Service, or BIS, starting early this week and... [16 Mar 2006]
Mobile TV turns consumers off
News Three of the largest cellular operators in the US, Cingular Wireless, Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless, have already launched video services. Sprint Nextel and Verizon... [06 Mar 2006]
Vonage debuts wi-fi phone
News Cable operators Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner, Advance/Newhouse Communications, which have joined Sprint Nextel in a new joint venture, plan to come up with a wireless solution that allows... [13 Dec 2005]
Mobile WiMax: It's up to standard
News In the US, Sprint Nextel is already testing the technology in its laboratories. An industry standards group has approved a new specification for WiMax that includes mobility support, paving the way for... [09 Dec 2005]
Cingular dishes up 3.5G delights
News Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless, which both use a technology called EV-DO, already offer data services over their 3G networks on handsets. Cingular Wireless on Tuesday launched its third-generation... [07 Dec 2005]
Cisco splashes $6.9bn for set-top box maker
News Some, including Comcast and Cox Communications, have struck a deal with Sprint Nextel to also offer mobile phone service. Cisco Systems, the dominant player in equipment that runs the internet, will buy... [21 Nov 2005]
Intel pours more cash into worldwide WiMax
News Besides Intel, AT&T, Cisco, Fujitsu Microelectronics, Motorola, Nortel Networks, Samsung and Sprint Nextel, to name a few, are supporting 802.16 as a standard. Intel on Wednesday announced a slew of new... [11 Nov 2005]
RIM picks Intel for BlackBerry
News The processor is capable of tapping into UTMS (Universal Mobile Telephone System) wireless networks, a WCDMA-DS based technology used by Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless, Intel executive vice president... [28 Sep 2005]
VoIP: Vonage to go mobile
News On Friday, mobile phone operator Nextel Communications, which is in the midst of being purchased by rival Sprint, began offering a $40-per-month service providing unlimited access to 7,000 hot spots run... [16 May 2005]
US desperate for more mobile phones
News The study also indicated that consolidation in the mobile-phone industry would concentrate dominance in three companies - Cingular Wireless, Verizon and Sprint-Nextel - whose products will be found in... [14 Apr 2005]
3GSM: Motorola CEO says telecoms must simplify
News He talked up push-to-talk, immediate communication handset technology, even if his company's trailblazing-though-proprietary offering looks set to be dropped over time by the merged Sprint-Nextel... [17 Feb 2005]
Verizon buys MCI in $6.7bn deal
News In December, Sprint announced the acquisition of Nextel Communications in a $35bn merger that will create a giant in the mobile phone business to better compete against the top two providers, Cingular... [14 Feb 2005]
Telco mergers may spell bad news for hardware firms
News And with the Sprint-Nextel Communications merger pending, the pressure could continue, he added. The rapid consolidation of phone companies in the telecommunications industry could spell trouble for... [09 Feb 2005]
Leader: Closure at the end of the calendar year?
Leader There was the weighty marriage between US mobile operators Nextel and Sprint and Oracle finally getting its way with PeopleSoft, another enterprise software vendor. Normally as we approach Christmas and... [23 Dec 2004]
