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After 9 Months, The Softbank-Sprint Merger Will Be A Done Deal On July 10
It’s been nine months since we first caught wind of Softbank’s $20.1 billion purchase of a majority stake in Sprint, and the story is finally coming to a close. Japanese…
Sprint Acquires KC-Based Handmark For Its Mobile App Development And Advertising Shop, OneLouder
Sprint has decided to get deeper into the social and mobile space, announcing today that it has acquired Handmark and its subsidiary OneLouder. The acquisition is meant to beef up…
Sprint’s Q1 2013 iPhone Sales Show Flat Growth, Off The Pace Worldwide And At Home
Sprint’s Q1 2013 financial results came out this morning, and the news wasn’t great overall. Losses continue to accumulate, and total smartphone sales aren’t faring very well, either, with just…
Sprint Losses Continue With $643M Shortfall In Q1 2013, On Negative EPS Of $0.21, And Revenue Of $5.8B
Sprint’s Q1 2013 earnings today revealed that although Sprint may have slowed its decline, it’s far from out of the woods. Sprint’s reported earnings reveal a slight slowdown with losses…
Dish Makes $25.5B Bid For Sprint To Snatch It Out Of Softbank’s Hands
A dramatic turn of events in the ongoing story of U.S. carrier consolidation: Dish Network is launching a $25.5 billion bid for number-three carrier Sprint, amounting to $17.3 billion in…
Dish Network Chairman Said To Be Seeking A Merger With T-Mobile USA
Say what you will about Dish Networks, but the Colorado company’s brass has some moxie. The satellite media service provider has been trying for years now to link up with…
Quixey Partners With Sprint To Power App Search On Sprint’s Android Smartphones & Online Portal
Quixey, the app search startup that signed a deal to power app search results on Ask.com this December, is today announcing another high-profile partnership, this time with U.S. mobile carrier Sprint.…
Sprint Seals Deal For 100% Ownership Of Clearwire, At $2.97 Per Share Or $2.2 Billion Total
Sprint today announced that it has arranged an agreement with Clearwire to buy out the remainder of the smaller company for $2.2 billion, or $2.97 per share. The final price…
Sprint Faces Cap On Clearwire Deal From SoftBank While Investors Look For More
Sprint’s attempted purchase of Clearwire may have hit a snag, according to a new report from Reuters. Sprint reportedly has a hard cap on how much it can offer to…
Sprint Looks To Buy Out Remainder Of Clearwire For Around $2.1B
Earlier, it was rumored that Sprint was considering a buy-out of the remaining 48 percent of Clearwire shares it didn’t own, after the pending Softbank investment in its company promised…
Who Is This? (Sprint + Google Voice Is Hopeless)
You can’t say I didn’t give it an honest try. It was over a year ago now that I tried switching from an Android phone to the iPhone. The main…
Sprint Reportedly In Talks To Acquire Remaining 49 Percent Of Clearwire, Along With Spectrum Rights
Sprint is said to be in talks to gobble up the remaining 49 percent of Clearwire it doesn’t already own, according to new reports from CNBC and the Wall Street…
Apple’s iPad Mini With LTE Hits Sprint And At&T Retail Today, And Likely Other Stores, Too
Sprint announced this morning that it is now offering the iPad mini and fourth generation iPad with LTE connectivity in “select Sprint retail locations.” Sprint is one of three official…
Windows Phone 8 is hitting Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile this year. But Sprint customers will have to wait until 2013. For unknown reasons, the carrier is not getting any versions…
Sprint Buying U.S. Cellular Spectrum And Customers For $480 Million To Expand Midwest Reach
Sprint today announced that it has made an arrangement with U.S. Cellular to acquire PCS spectrum and also wireless network customers for $480 million in cash, and Sprint’s taking over…
Major Wireless Carriers Hunker Down For Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy, what may essentially be the biggest storm to hit the North Eastern seaboard in history, is barreling toward us, through the Atlantic, at this very second. It’s estimated…
Sprint Q3 2012 Misses, Down $.26/Share On Revenues Of $7.3B, Reports 1.5M iPhones Sold
Sprint, newly acquired by Japanese SoftBank for $20.1 billion earlier this month, has just announced earnings results for the third quarter, perhaps showing just how fortunate this acquisition will be…
Softbank Confirms It Is Buying 70% Of Sprint For $20.1B, Creating World’s Third Largest Mobile Carrier By Sales
Softbank has confirmed the news that it is buying Sprint, the third-largest wireless carrier in the U.S., for $20.1 billion (¥1.571 trillion). In fact, this is turning out to be…
Sprint Launches StarStar Me To Replace Your Phone Number With Your Name
Capitalizing on our increasing loss of memorization skills, Sprint is today launching a new product that will let users replace their usual phone number with their name. And the product…
LG’s Flagship Optimus G Slated To Hit AT&T And Sprint Shelves Later This Year
LG’s last big (and I mean big) smartphone release around these parts was the Intuition, a funky phablet that many a critic panned. Thankfully, the company’s straight-laced follow-up — the…
Sprint And Motorola Party Like It’s 2010: Motorola XPRT Finally Gets A Taste Of Gingerbread
Now that Motorola is owned by Google, you may think that past and present Motorola devices should get the latest and best version of Android. With Sprint announcing quietly on…
Dear AT&T, Take Your iPhone 5 And Shove It Up Your A$$ (UPDATED)
So here’s an interesting predicament that I’ve found myself in today. As you know, the iPhone 5 pre-sale begins at 12:01 Friday morning. I’m ready to pre-order like every other…
Sprint To Launch The $199, Keyboard-Toting Motorola Photon Q On August 19
You know what Sprint’s LTE handset line-up has been missing (aside from more network coverage outside of Texas)? Some variety! Nearly all of Sprint’s LTE devices are monolithic, all-touch slabs…
Sprint’s LTE Service Quietly Appears In The SF Bay Area
Sprint is making solid headway with its new LTE network — it’s already live in 15 (mostly Texan markets) with another four slated to light up before Labor Day rolls…
Motorola & Sprint Preparing To Launch The LTE-Friendly, QWERTY-Packing Photon Q
The folks at Sprint seem to be having a busy day so far — this morning saw (among other things) the release of the carrier’s latest quarterly financials, an announcement…
Sprint’s LTE Rollout Stymied By “Uh, Birds” As It Plans To Activate Four New Markets
Sprint seems to be taking the slow and steady approach to their LTE light-up, but it turns out that’s not entirely by design. When asked about how confident the carrier…
Sprint Q2 2012 Earnings: Net Loss Widens To $1.4B, 1.5M iPhones Sold
U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Nextel has just posted its results for Q2, and while it continues to prepare for a brighter future ahead, it reported a widening net loss of…
FreedomPop Teams With Sprint To Broaden Reach Of Its Freemium Internet Service
FreedomPop, the ambitious startup devoted to bringing freemium internet to the masses, has been awfully busy lately. The last time they popped up on our radar the company had just…
Sprint’s Delayed Galaxy S III Will Be Available On July 1: 16GB For $199, 32GB for $249
Sprint’s version of the Galaxy S III has been a bit delayed due to some supply shortages, but the carrier has just confirmed that the Galaxy S III will be…
Samsung Galaxy S III Review: This Is The Phone You’ve Been Waiting For
The Samsung Galaxy S III is the Android phone of the moment and in many ways it lives up to the hype. Plenty of folks are excited to see this…
