sprint in comment and analysis
Tech Visions: New media is IT's next frontier
Comment The US National Football League (NFL) expects to see $900m from digital media developments, such as a new five-year Sprint contract to deliver NFL programming to mobile devices. Not true, says Silicon Valley-based Howard Greenfield. [29 Nov 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: That WiMax 3G phone tablet thing
Comment Well, a few mobile operators are looking at WiMax already - Sprint in the US is one and Korea Telecom in Samsung's home market. Jo Best weighs in on the mobile plans for this much-hyped wireless technology. [20 Nov 2006]
Motorola gets serious about the enterprise
Comment The handset maker is working with the tech's chief cheerleader Intel and supplies US operator Sprint with the kit to gets its WiMax network off the ground. Why did a handset maker splash out $3.9bn to buy a company that has created bar-code... [21 Sep 2006]
Radioactive: Which way for wireless broadband?
Comment In the US, Sprint Nextel has a swathe of 2.5GHz spectrum that it must use by 2009 and WiMax is one of the technologies it is evaluating. With commercially deployed equipment, Motorola will be favourites to win business from Sprint. [27 Jul 2006]
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 the end of the year, the pace eases up in the... [23 Dec 2004]
Radioactive: We want our mobile TV
Comment In the US, Sprint PCS is making $2m a month on its two mobile TV services - Sprint TV (downloads) and MobiTV (streaming). We've been hearing about TV on mobile phones for years but so far the research has said people don't want it. [01 Dec 2004]
Leader: Is virtual success good enough in mobile?
Leader Ma Bell will be back in mobile - an MVNO piggy-backing on Sprint's network. How many mobile operators does the UK have? Most people could probably name the four main ones, then of course there is newcomer 3, with its third-generation network. [18 May 2004]
Leader: Friday 13 February unlucky for some - including Vodafone?
Leader If Cingular does win AT&T Wireless - leapfrogging Verizon Wireless into the US number one spot - Verizon's natural counter-move would be a bid for Sprint PCS. The speculation surrounding AT&T Wireless and whether Vodafone will make a bid for the on... [12 Feb 2004]
Has push-to-talk got what businesses need?
Comment Subscribers to the networks of Sprint, Verizon Wireless and - most famously - Nextel have been using PTT for some time. New revenues from voice? That's the prize mobile operators are hoping push-to-talk technology will deliver. [22 Jan 2004]
Crossing the Channel: What IP can do for storage
Comment For example, Cisco, Hitachi Data Systems and Sprint successfully tested replication over a distance of nearly 6,000km. IP is boosting the distance limitations of traditional storage networking technologies, claims Anthony Plewes. [02 Sep 2003]
Cometa - Wi-Fi gold at the end of the rainbow?
Comment We're trying to tie costs into revenues as much as possible," admits Joe Gensheimer, Cometa CEO and a former Sprint senior veep. The idea of massive, wholesale Wi-Fi networks is gaining popularity, as witnessed by the birth of The Cloud in the UK... [18 Jun 2003]
Of Gore, Hague and more dot-com disasters
Comment The Democrats have traditionally been seen as more interventionist than the Republicans - see the aborted MCI Worldcom/Sprint merger and the DoJ versus Microsoft battles for reference - but one former Gore aide thinks that's all wrong. [09 Nov 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: ASP action; B2B ecommerce hubs; and Cisco: worth more than Microsoft
Comment The US Qwest Communications operation claims more bandwidth than AT&T, Sprint and MCI Worldcom combined. This week has seen announcements from both Qwest Communications in the USA and KPNQwest in Europe positioning the two companies as... [03 Apr 2000]
Transatlantic Cable: Net access (and coffee) to go
Comment Since then, one company (Sprint PCS) has started offering Net access as an additional service, but it is (so far) the only one doing so. Confession time: you might picture me writing this in some plush office overlooking the Golden Gate bridge... [14 Dec 1999]
CRM: it's what you do with it that counts
Comment Many of the 50 sample companies - which included giants such as Eastman Kodak and Sprint - are not using datawarehouses properly for meaningful analysis, and few are exploiting applications that allow proper collaboration with customers, the Meta... [15 Nov 1999]
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