Tag archive: Sprint

Going into effect on Sunday, February 12, AT&T is increasing the activation fee on phone upgrades from $18 to $36 according to a memo issued to all AT&T store managers according to BGR. This brings the activation fee equal to the current rate of $36 for starting a brand new service plan. As directed by AT&T corporate management, store employees are supposed to define the fee as costs associated to picking out a new phone as well as… Read More

All four major U.S. cell phone carriers have now released their financial results for the fourth quarter of 2011, and all three of iPhone carriers tout their success during the quarter, bolstered by new subscribers to their wireless voice and data services. No surprise for a phone more popular than all Android smartphones combined, right? But with it comes a heavy toll. The Apple iPhone carries a higher subsidy than any other phone the carriers… Read More

The addition of Apple's iPhone to its mobile lineup gave Sprint a boost in both revenue and customers during the fourth quarter of 2011. Despite these gains, America's third-largest wireless company still posted a loss of $1.3 billion, or $0.43 per share, thanks in part to the high cost of subsidizing the iPhone. Sprint's revenue rose 5 percent to $8.7 billion. According to its earnings report, Sprint sold 1.8 million iPhones… Read More

According to a report from Apple enthusiast site 9to5Mac, the next revision of the iPhone will be hitting store shelves during the summer months of this year. This release window would align with the upcoming contract expiration date of 1.7 million AT&T customers that purchased the iPhone 4 within the first three days of release on June 24, 2010. The same source that provided this information to 9to5Mac also predicted that the iPhone 4S was… Read More

Like so many wireless carriers, Sprint subsidiary Virgin Mobile will soon begin throttling the data speeds of those who use the most data on its 'unlimited' data plans. Currently, Virgin Mobile users who have used more than 2.5GB of data in Dec. 2011 are being sent to a mobile site that warns them that, beginning March 23, 2012, any data they use in a month over the 2.5GB limit will be slowed down to 256Kbps. We don't… Read More

Those of you on Sprint, your time is coming. Sprint is expected to debut its LTE network in the first six months of 2012 and it looks like the Galaxy Nexus may be the first device to take advantage. Yesterday, The ad above appeared on CNET. It shows a 4G LTE version of the Galaxy Nexus with a 1.5GHz dual-core processor (faster than the Verizon and Unlocked models, which are 1.2GHz dual-core). Though carriers love to meddle with designs, it… Read More

Samsung is about to release a bunch of white phones. That's right, white! But not just regular ol' white — “Frost White.” Don't get too excited. According to a press release out this morning, the robustly named Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch will be available in Frost White through Sprint staring on January 8, this coming Sunday. Customers can purchase the device at Sprint retail stores, through Sprint.com, or… Read More

Number three U.S. mobile operator Sprint is patting itself on the back at the end of the year, touting its “Network Vision” plan that included nationwide 3G service upgrades and the first steps towards its own 4G LTE network. The update included some interesting almost promises for people itching to get on the 4G bandwagon: Sprint plans to start offering its first LTE devices in mid-2012, and anticipates having most of its LTE… Read More

LG has been evaluating its Optimus smartphone range over the past few weeks, in order to see which models would be blessed with an upgrade to Android 4.0. Initially, it was just a handful of phones on the list, but according to a new post on their official Facebook page, several other devices have been deemed suitable too. However, while LG gives, it also takes away, as those in line for a taste of Google's new version of Android are… Read More

U.S. mobile operator Sprint earlier this week admitted it has sold customers some 26 million phones with the controversial Carrier IQ software installed; now, the company has disabled data collection using Carrier IQ, and says it is evaluating how best to gather network diagnostic information going forward. Sprint's move was first reported by Geek.com, then confirmed by Mobile Burn and other outlets. In a statement, Sprint indicated it… Read More

Number-three mobile operator Sprint has filed separate lawsuits against Time Warner, Comcast, Cox Communications, and Cable One, alleging the companies violate a dozen Sprint patents related to digital phone technology. The patents in the suits date back to the 1990s, and some of them are the same patents that Sprint used back in 2007 to extract an $80 million settlement from Vonage over its VoIP operations. In all the complaints, Sprint says… Read More

Responding to questions from U.S. Senator Al Franken regarding its use of the controversial Carrier IQ software, US mobile operator Sprint has revealed (PDF) that it has installed Carrier IQ on more than 26 million handset — but insists its use of the software is limited solely to diagnostic data and does not constitute a breach of users' privacy. Furthermore, Sprint says that it only has Carrier IQ active on about 5 percent of the… Read More

In an interview with Bloomberg, Dish Network CEO Joseph Clayton says the company would be interested in partnering with T-Mobile to build out satellite-assisted nationwide broadband network, should T-Mobile's tending $39 billion merger with AT&T collapses. “We want to use [our spectrum] to create a national wireless network, video, voice, and data,” said Clayton. “We've got expertise in satellite TV, and we… Read More

Aspiring LTE provider LightSquared may have hoped to put GPS interference problems behind it by switching to a spectrum block controlled by Inmarsat, but Bloomberg reports that it's not quite out of the woods yet. Tests by the U.S. government conducted in at the beginning of November found that LightSquared's proposed mobile broadband service caused harmful interference with three quarters of GPS units it tested. The report will… Read More

Among the top four US wireless carriers, Verizon is the best, according to this year's annual satisfaction survey by Consumer Reports magazine. AT&T, well, not so much. For the second year in a row, AT&T has scored the lowest among all major US wireless carriers, with particularly bad scores in the value, voice and phone departments, which were derived from a survey of more than 66,000 Consumer Reports subscribers. AT&T also… Read More