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.
Without the distraction of a pending merger, Sprint is now focused on the competition. One of its prepaid arms, Boost Mobile, is cutting its monthly prices by $5 per plan while… Read more »
Sprint-T-Mobile may be dead, but there are potentially many more companies that would like to hyphenate their names with T-Mo. France’s Iliad is preparing a new offer, while Dish Network lurks… Read more »
If you’d like a fast phone that’s unapologetically plastic, you could do a lot worse than the HTC One E8, which Sprint officially announced on Friday. It will cost $100 with a… Read more »
Ting’s customers may use less cellular data than the national average, but they’re also a paying a lot less each month. That reflects the company’s pay-for-what-you-consume billing model. Read more »
Thanks to Softbank, Sony may have another avenue to sell its smartphones, which sorely need a sales boost: Sprint will reportedly sell the next Sony Xperia flagship, expected at next month’s… Read more »
Verizon had the launch exclusive but the HTC One M8 with Windows Phone will be available on other U.S. carrier networks. On Thursday, T-Mobile announced the phone will arrive in time… Read more »
AT&T stole Verizon’s thunder in the Mid-Atlantic, but the big surprise is that T-Mobile has moved into the number-two slot in two of J.D. Power’s six regions. Read more »
If a recent sales estimate is in the ballpark, then Amazon hasn’t sold many Fire Phones at all. So how do you explain that it is the best-selling on-contract handset on… Read more »
Verizon is the last major U.S. carrier to get the VoLTE ball rolling but the wait is nearly over. Soon, the company will introduce Advanced Calling 1.0 with video calls and… Read more »