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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 chipmakers and device manufacturers to start... [09 Dec 2005]
AT&T Wireless to join the 3G fray?
News Sprint will likely be the next major cell phone service provider to make the push to 3G, having sunk $1bn into building a network set to launch later this year. AT&T Wireless, rumored to be launching its next generation cell phone network, has... [20 Jul 2004]
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]
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 network, which it says will give mobile... [07 Dec 2005]
Microsoft caters for CDMA mobile devices
News Sprint PCS is the only other major CDMA carrier in the US. Microsoft will step up its fight with Nokia today with plans to unveil software that powers mobile phones based on Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technology. [06 Jan 2003]
Cheat Sheet: Femtocell
Cheat Sheet Sprint Airwave is being rolled out in the Denver and Indianapolis areas, with Nashville coming soon, backed by equipment from Samsung. I'll avoid the Austin Powers gags. Thanks. Tell me, what does it mean? [25 Sep 2007]
Will Google's Android rock the mobile world?
News In the US Google has managed to sign up two of the top four wireless operators: Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA. Consumers shouldn't expect Google's new mobile phone software to revolutionise their mobile experience overnight - or anytime soon. [06 Nov 2007]
Yahoo! fuming over trade secrets theft claim
News MForma is an 800-person company that has focused primarily on games and music applications for mobile phones, and provides content for carriers including Cingular Wireless, Orange, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, Vodafone and others. [28 Feb 2006]
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]
Mobility for the masses
News And last week, Sprint announced availability of its Pocket PC phone that runs Windows Mobile 5.0. During the CTIA keynote address on Tuesday, Mary McDowell, senior vice president and general manager of enterprise solutions for Nokia, said... [28 Sep 2005]
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]
