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The Rumor of Verizon Offering the iPhone

April 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Deals, Gadgets, Technology, Wireless, mobile phones, smartphones

Today’s rumor mill is abuzz about Verizon possibly picking up Apple’s iPhone when AT&T’s exclusive deal runs next year. I must say I’m rather skeptical about this right now. I’m noticing most of the rumors credit the same source and all look the same. It just takes one rumor…
So let’s think about this. The iPhone [...]

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What’s Not To Love About Sprint?

April 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Deals, Gadgets, Hardware, Technology, Wireless, mobile phones, smartphones

Recently a friend posted a link to a video of one of the new Sprint commercials to our little newsgroup. This of course put me on a quick little rant of all things groovy about Sprint. This then led to someone commenting “…you went there. We won’t be able to get him to shut up [...]

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Barnes & Noble and Sprint to Develop eBook Offering

April 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Deals, Gadgets, Technology, Wireless

You know I couldn’t let an interesting story (just a rumor for now) concerning Sprint pass me by. Rumor has it that Barnes & Noble is working with Sprint Nextel and an unnamed device maker to offer eBook services similar to the Amazon Kindle. Hm…interesting. Barnes & Noble tried this a few years back working [...]

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Cox Communications To Launch Their Own Cellular Network

April 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Business Practices, Deals, Technology, Wireless, mobile phones

Things are about to get a bit busier in the cellular battlefield. Cox Communications is going to be launching their own cellular network soon. To those in the wireless industry it’s been known that Cox planned on doing so. Cox (which is the third largest cable company in the U.S.) originally planned to work with [...]

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Sprint, Clearwire WiMax Deal Is On!

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Business Practices, Technology, Wireless, emerging markets

It finally happened! Sprint Nextel and Clearwire announced the $14.55 billion WiMax deal. Sprint will own 51% of the company (called Clearwire) with Clearwire owning 27% and investors 22%. Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks are all pumping $3.2 billion into the deal. Trilogy Equity Partners will also invest in the [...]

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Still Frustrated With Sprint

April 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Business Practices, Gadgets, Rant, Rant, Technology

Ok…I’m STILL frustrated with Sprint. I’ve been out of town for a bit and unfortunately haven’t been able to voice thse frustrations and give reasons why they frustrate me (while also clearing up some misconceptions and mistakes from previous posts. Can’t have the readers thinking I don’t know what I’m talking about..)
Frustration number one…the Samsung [...]

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More Good News For Sprint and Clearwire’s WiMax Baby

March 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Technology

There’s yet more good news for those of you who have been keeping tabs on the whole WiMax thing that Sprint and Clearwire have been involved (albeit, just talking about) in. Recent reports tell a tale of Comcast and Time Warner Cable willing to pump in another $1.5 billion into this project. Brighthouse Networks and [...]

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