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If you’re loyal to Windows Phone and looking for a new device this holiday season, there aren’t many high-end options to choose from. One of the best is HTC’s One M8… Read more »
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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.
MoreIf you’re loyal to Windows Phone and looking for a new device this holiday season, there aren’t many high-end options to choose from. One of the best is HTC’s One M8… Read more »
After launching its iPhone-for-life leasing program, Sprint announced iPad for Life, in which customers can get an iPad Air 2 or iPad Mini 3 on a 24-month lease. Read more »
The next generation of Wi-Fi will make it easier for both upstarts and huge companies to take on traditional cellular operators in the mobile market. Read more »
With the Nexus 6 difficult to get from Google due to low inventory, carriers are ready to start selling the phone. Here are the various plans, costs and pre-order information which… Read more »
Sprint started growing again last quarter, but its 484,000 net subscriber additions all came from MVNOs like FreedomPop. Sprint is still bleeding valuable postpaid customers, and it’s financial troubles are triggering… Read more »
After its successful iPhone 6 launch, Sprint has decided to experiment more with its new leasing plans. It’s renting just two Android phones for now, but we’ll likely see more to come. Read more »
Samsung’s cellular-equipped Gear S smartwatch, which comes with its own phone number, is headed to the United States. There are significant differences between the data plans that the big four carriers… Read more »
T-Mobile keeps growing, adding new prepaid and postpaid customers and activating new smartphone and even internet-of-things connections. The only area where its lagging far behind the competition is in tablets. Read more »
This is why we can’t have nice things. The Apple SIM that comes with the new iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 was supposed to let customers switch between service… Read more »
Apple’s new SIM card will act as a gateway between the iPad and mobile networks. That gives Apple an enormous amount of power over the carriers. It’s doubtful, though, that Apple… Read more »