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Article | 6/11/2012 Mobile networks nearing normal coverage after Sandy
Cellular coverage for some carriers approached normal levels in the northeastern U.S. a week after Hurricane Sandy made landfall, but some areas remai...
Article | 2/11/2012 Investor wants Clearwire to sell spectrum, prevent a Sprint buyout
A major investor in WiMax operator Clearwire told the company's board on Thursday to sell its excess spectrum for up to US$9 billion to prevent Sprint...
Article | 31/10/2012 Japan's Softbank books record profit as Sprint deal unfolds
Japan's Softbank, which announced a US$20 billion deal to acquire U.S. mobile operator Sprint Nextel earlier this month, said it booked a record opera...
Article | 30/10/2012 Sandy slams mobile, wired and cable networks as far west as Michigan
Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy knocked out mobile, phone and cable service in many parts of the eastern U.S. on Monday, with about one in four cell sites...
Article | 25/10/2012 Sprint hits delays in LTE rollout
Sprint Nextel's deployment of its ambitious Network Vision infrastructure, which includes the gradual rollout of 4G LTE technology, is about three mon...
Article | 24/10/2012 Sprint Direct Connect Now makes push-to-talk an Android app
Push-to-talk, once the killer app of Nextel's iDEN network and more recently a feature offered on certain Sprint Nextel phones, has finally made the t...
Article | 20/12/2011 Professor files net neutrality complaint against Verizon Wireless
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should investigate Verizon Wireless for allegedly blocking Google Wallet on a new smartphone available to t...
Article | 16/12/2011 New Clearwire funding won't guarantee LTE plan
Clearwire's big payday on Tuesday, when it raised US$734 million through a stock offering and a new investment by majority owner Sprint Nextel, helped...
Article | 10/12/2011 DOJ tells judge there's not active AT&T's deal with T-Mobile
The U.S. Department of Justice will file a motion to stay or dismiss its lawsuit to block AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile USA because the agency be...
Article | 6/12/2011 Clearwire plans $300 million stock offering for LTE
Clearwire plans to raise as much as $345 million in stock transactions to help fund its LTE (Long Term Evolution) network deployment and other activit...
Article | 3/12/2011 Comcast to phase out Clearwire service
At least one of the cable operators that struck a wireless spectrum deal with Verizon on Friday now plans to stop reselling WiMax mobile service from ...
Article | 2/12/2011 Sprint, Clearwire lay out deals on LTE, WiMax, funding
Sprint Nextel may help finance Clearwire's LTE network and keep offering WiMax service through 2015 under a set of agreements worth as much as US$1.6 ...
Article | 30/11/2011 Mobile industry rolls out gaming rating system
Mobile telecom trade group CTIA and the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) will roll out a rating system for mobile applications similar to ra...
Article | 17/11/2011 Cox stops selling mobile service
Cox Communications, which planned its own mobile network in 2008 but later settled for reselling Sprint Nextel service, stopped selling wireless altog...
Article | 16/11/2011 Stanton: Jobs wanted own network with unlicensed spectrum
Steve Jobs initially hoped to create his own network with the unlicensed spectrum that Wi-Fi uses rather than work with the mobile operators, said wir...