Cellular coverage for some carriers approached normal levels in the northeastern U.S. a week after Hurricane Sandy made landfall, but some areas remained cut off from mobile service because of ongoing power and telecommunications outages. ...
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Softbank, which announced a $20 billion deal to acquire U.S. mobile operator Sprint Nextel earlier this month, said it booked a record operating profit in the first half of its fiscal year. Softbank said its sales in the April-September ...
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Two days after Hurricane Sandy hit northeast U.S.coastal areas,power and communications outages are continuing to be a concern,especially in lower Manhattan. Verizon posted a dramatic photo online early Wednesday showing the lobby of ...
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IDG News Service-Softbank's planned US$20 billion investment in Sprint validates the way the U.S.government handled last year's proposed merger of T-Mobile USA and AT&T,Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said Thursday. The proposed 2011 deal,which ...
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IDG News Service-Sprint Nextel's deployment of its ambitious Network Vision infrastructure,which includes the gradual rollout of 4G LTE technology,is about three months behind schedule due to several factors,the company said during its ...
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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 transformation into a downloadable Android app called Sprint Direct Connect Now. The ...
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Samsung Telecommunications America has upgraded the TecTile application, which programs NFC stickers, to automate functions on its smartphones. The most talked-about application for NFC (Near Field Communication) is payments. But the ...
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Sycamore Networks(NASDAQ--SCMR),whose optical switches and telecom software have powered carrier networks around the world since 1998,says it is shutting down.The company is selling off assets of its Intelligent Bandwidth Management ...
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Board members at Sprint Nextel are expected to discuss whether to pursue a merger with rival mobile carrier MetroPCS during a meeting Friday,according to a news report. Sprint,which considered a merger with MetroPCS earlier this year,may ...
Computerworld-The Isis mobile wallet network will launch Monday in Salt Lake City and Austin,Texas,the Isis consortium announced Wednesday after an earlier delay in the launch. In an emailed statement,Isis marketing head Jaymee Johnson ...
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IDG News Service-Samsung Mobile on Wednesday said it would start rolling out Android 4.1,code-named Jelly Bean,to Galaxy S III smartphones in the U.S. Galaxy S III smartphones run on Android 4.0,code-named Ice Cream Sandwich.The Jelly ...
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IDG News Service - If $8 billion shows up in Sprint Nextel's wallet as planned in Softbank's proposed takeover, the No. 3 U.S. mobile operator may pay off debt, speed up its rollout of LTE, or even buy its network partner, Clearwire. ...
Softbank will acquire a 70%stake in Sprint Nextel,with the boards of both companies agreeing to the deal,which will be announced Monday,according to CNBC. Japan's third-largest wireless carrier will pay$20 billion for the ...
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WiMax broadband provider Clearwire said an email problem caused it to send out numerous messages about subscribers'account status in error on Friday. Various emails told subscribers that they had to update their payment details,that their ...
A recent independent study of LTE coverage within four U.S.cities showed Sprint's networks lagging far behind those of both Verizon Wireless and AT&T. In comprehensive testing in Dallas,Fort Worth,Kansas City and Atlanta in mid-August and ...
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