Sprint is a telecommunications holding company that provides wireless services and is also a major global Internet carrier. It is the third largest U.S. wireless network operator as of 2014, and served 54.3 million customers at the end of the second quarter of 2014. In addition to the Sprint brand, the company also offers wireless voice, messaging, and broadband services through its various subsidiaries under the Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, and Assurance Wireless brands, as well as wholesale access to its wireless networks to mobile virtual network operators. Sprint traces its origins to the Brown Telephone Company, which was founded in 1899 to deploy telephone service to the rural area around Abilene, Kansas.
Sprint’s Spark network in Chicago has sprouted a lot more antennas. Sprint is testing a new technology called 8T8R that promises to make Sprint’s network more resilient and create more capacity… Read more »
At an event in Chicago, Sprint announced the nationwide rollout of its HD voice network as well as new social networking and fitness apps centered around the Galaxy S5 Sport. Read more »
At an event in Chicago on Monday, Sprint and Samsung announced a new high-end handset, the Samsung Galaxy S5 Sport. Unfortunately, this handset is basically identical to the standard Galaxy S5 with a 2.5GHz… Read more »
Virgin Mobile is launching a new PayLo option targeted at either the hard-core texter or the hard-core voice user. The catch is you have to choose between one or the other. Read more »
John Legere and his executive team talk to Gigaom about mobile competition in the U.S. and why mobile data is no longer the rare commodity it used to be. Read more »
T-Mobile won’t charge you the data you consume when streaming Pandora, iTunes Radio, Spotify or any other internet music app. The carrier also plans to launch its own internet radio service… Read more »
The new roaming deals will give a dozen smaller carriers access to Sprint’s 4G network and Sprint’s spectrum, which they can use to add LTE capacity to their own networks. Read more »
In its FCC filings, AT&T says it will connect 13 million additional homes to a tolerable broadband connection with new wireless local loop technologies. It’s failed at this in the past,… Read more »
Although it has yet to be officially announced, the proposed tie-up between Sprint and T-Mobile is likely to come before regulators in the near future. Approval of the merger might have… Read more »