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Sprint Catches Virgin

No. 3 wireless operator agrees to pay $483 million in stock to acquire the wireless provider, boosting its position in the prepaid-calling business.
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Sprint to Lease More Network Capacity

Facing a prolonged decline in its consumer business, mobile carrier is looking to boost its sale of network access to device makers such as Amazon and Garmin.
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TV Seeks Slice of Mobile Pie

63 U.S. stations plan to begin beaming to new generation of mobile phones, MP3 players, GPS devices, in-car systems.
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New Handset, OS Boost Palm Shares

Stock of beleaguered company vaults 32 percent after pivotal product rollout at CES.
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Will Sprint Modem Save Mobile WiMAX?

The carrier’s modem that does both 3G and WiMAX will appeal to a small segment of the business market and do little to stave off the onslaught of LTE, analyst says.
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Hell Week for Telecom

Monumental losses, layoffs, employee buyouts, and lowered forecasts marked a difficult week for telecom, but startups could be the biggest casualties to come.
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AT&T Snacks on Wi-Fi Provider for $275M

Wayport, backed by Sevin Rosen, New Enterprise, extends AT&T service from Starbucks to McDonald’s and hotels.
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FCC Approves Verizon Wireless-Alltel

Federal Communications Commission signs off on so-called whites space rules, the Verizon Wireless-Alltel merger, and the tie-up of Sprint’s and Clearwire’s WiMAX businesses.
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WiChorus Nets $18M for WiMAX

Despite credit concerns in the carrier market, investors believe WiMAX, with billions of dollars worth of projects in the pipeline, will soldier on for some time.
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Android Not Yet Good Enough?

Analyst says the G1 has flaws that are to be expected from version 1.0 of its Android-based operating system.
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Israeli WiMAX Chip Maker Nets $22M

Altair Semiconductor will use its new cash haul to speed its transition from engineering company to a marketing one courting major carriers.
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Industry Braces for Google G1 on Android

T-Mobile is set to officially debut the first phone, dubbed the G1, to sport Google's Linux-based Android operating system. The search king, expected to grab at least 4 percent of the market, will become the latest agitator to shake up the industry.
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Virgin Mobile USA Dials Up Helio for $39M

Deal for money-losing post-paid service sets up $50M investment by Korea’s SK Telcom and Branson's Virgin Group.
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Cable Giants Talk WiMAX

Comcast and Time Warner Cable are testing the waters for a joint venture with Sprint and Clearwire that may not solve cable's long-term problems.
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Sprint Nextel's Bad Connection

No.3 U.S mobile carrier posts $29 billion loss and suspends dividends.
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Sprint Expected to Wage Price War

No. 3 U.S. mobile service provider Sprint Nextel is expected to offer flat-rate calling plans at up to a 40 percent discount to its rivals, analysts say.
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Sprint: WiMax Coming Soon

The wireless provider says the company is on track to launch commercial services for its next-generation WiMax high-speed wireless network at the end of April.
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Vodafone, Nokia Team on Services

Market saturation and falling handset prices are forcing phone makers into services. But can they really compete with carriers?
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Sprint in Talks With Google

The mobile service provider is talking with Google to put the search king's applications on its cell phones, according to a source.
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Vonage, Sprint Settle Patent Beef for $80M

Internet phone service Vonage agrees to pay Sprint $80 million to settle its patent dispute and license the wireless carrier's technology.
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