Sprint Nextel is in negotiations to acquire the remainder of Clearwire, its 4G WiMax network partner, say news reports. Sprint owns about 51 percent of Clearwire's stock and is the main wholesale customer of its national WiMax network. ...
Tags: Sprint Nextel, Clearwire, 4G WiMax network, WiMax network
Cisco today unveiled its latest ASR 5500 appliance to ease the impact of mobile devices on corporate networks. The platform is designed to deploy in the network as a packet core solution to help not only with current data traffic, but ...
An investor in Clearwire has stepped up its fight to get a better price for the mobile operator, but Clearwire's alternatives to a Sprint Nextel buyout may be limited due to the nature of its spectrum and its business. Though U.S. mobile ...
Tags: Clearwire, Spectrum Craze, Sprint, Bid
More that a dozen retailers including Best Buy, Walmart, Target and 7-Eleven have joined forces to form the Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), a mobile-payments network that will compete with Google and Isis. The retailers claim that they ...
Tags: Walmart, Target, MCX, mobile payments network
Verizon Wireless Thursday announced that it will start upgrading Samsung Galaxy S III smartphones on its network to the Android 4.1 operating system tomorrow. Samsung had unveiled the upgrade of the smartphone to the so-called Jelly Bean ...
Tags: Verizon, Galaxy S III, Jelly Bean, smartphones, Android 4.1
AT&T said it added four new LTE wireless markets on Monday, for a total of 113 markets nationwide. The four new markets are mid-sized cities: Auburn, Ala., Grand Rapids, Mich., Nashua, N.H., and Wilkes-Barre, Pa. AT&T previously lit up ...
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Verizon Wireless, like AT&T, will start shipping the Samsung Galaxy Note II in November, but its subscribers will have to wait a bit longer than users on competing networks. The device will start shipping from Verizon on Nov. 27, while ...
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Mobile payment systems in the U.S. have been long on promise and short on reality. The launch Monday of the Isis system in Salt Lake City and Austin will promote the adoption of mobile payments among users of nine smartphones that support ...
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The Isis joint venture of three wireless carriers announced the launch today of its new mobile wallet system in Salt Lake City and Austin using nine NFC-ready and Isis-ready smartphones sold by the carriers. Consumers interested in using ...
Tags: Isis joint venture, wireless carriers, mobile wallet system, smartphones
Windows Phone 8 smartphones, which officially launched Monday and will ship in November on three U.S. carriers, will support 46 of the top 50 most popular smartphone apps with a Data Sense app for more efficient data usage that will first ...
Tags: Windows Phone 8, smartphones, apps, Data Sense app, data usage
Two weeks after online orders of the Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone reached some AT&T customers, the carrier said the new smartphone will finally be available in its stores on Friday for $199.99 and a two-year contract. "We did let ...
Tags: Samsung, Galaxy S III, smartphone, customers
Marks and Spencer Group plc (“M&S”) announces the appointment of Andy Halford to its Board as a Non-Executive Director. He will take up his appointment on 1 January 2013. Andy Halford is the Chief Financial Officer of Vodafone ...
Tags: M&S, Andy Halford, BoD, consumer business
Showing that it's serious about quickly phasing out its venerable iDEN network and traditional push-to-talk service, Sprint Nextel now plans to charge all subscribers on that system an extra $10 per month beginning Jan. 1. Sprint has ...
Tags: Sprint, iDEN network, service, Sprint Nextel, subscribers
Verizon Wireless said the HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE smartphone will be on its stores shelves exclusively on Thursday for $149.99 after rebate with a new two-year agreement. The HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE smartphone. The 4-in. ...
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Microsoft Tuesday began delivering an update to Windows Phone 8 smartphones that provides unspecified "performance enhancements" that some customers say include an OS fix for random reboots and Wi-Fi enhancements. A spokeswoman said ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows Phone 8, smartphones, OS fix, WiFi enhancements