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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Layoffs Begin at AOL

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Monday, October 19, 2009

Sprint Nextel Silences iPCS

acquisitionsWireless company iPCS is a legal thorn in Sprint’s side no longer. This morning, Sprint said it would acquire its litigious affiliate for $831 million, including the assumption of $405 million of net debt.

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

LOL @ AOL

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So That’s Where the Palm Pre Marketing Budget Went

images3The consolidation of the prepaid cellphone market has begun in earnest. This morning, Sprint Nextel said it will acquire Virgin Mobile USA in a $483 million stock deal that will give the company a clear lead in the prepaid arena, where low prices are becoming ever more popular with consumers beaten into submission by the continuing recession.

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Friday, July 24, 2009

Palm Pre Customers Apparently as Constrained as Palm Pre Supply [Updated]

sprintstoreSprint best step up its marketing efforts for the Pre because according to Pali Research, demand for Palm’s new device is slowing, and quickly. During the week ending June 26, Pali estimates that Sprint sold 50,000-60,000 Pre handsets. In the weeks that followed, it sold “less than 40,000,” and then, “over 30,000”–again, according to Pali. Now the research outfit says sales have declined by another 5,000 units.

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Hospital Confirms Apple CEO’s Liver Transplant

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Monday, May 4, 2009

Sprint: Tourniquet, Please, Redux

ackroyd_juliachildjpgIt’s almost as if Sprint Nextel’s postpaid customers can hardly wait for their contracts to expire so they can jump to another carrier. The troubled wireless carrier lost more than one million postpaids in the first quarter of 2009 amid fierce competition from rivals AT&T and Verizon Wireless.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Sprint: Fewer Dropped Calls, Employees

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Monday, January 26, 2009

Sprint Prepares for Launch of Palm Pre With Massive Layoffs

What a great choice of carrier partner Palm has in Sprint Nextel, eh? A company with a longstanding reputation for lousy customer service, poor network coverage, high churn and Keystone Kops-style management disorganization. A company that lost 1.3 million customers in the third quarter. And now a company that plans to sack 8,000 employees, or 14.3 percent of its workforce, by the end of March–a month rumored to see the introduction of Palm’s new hail-Mary handset, the Pre.

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Friday, November 7, 2008

Yahoo: Songe d’Automne

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Monday, September 29, 2008

Xohm: No Long-Term Commitments Besides Baltimore Residency

Among the announcements forgotten for a moment amid the shrieks of agony and general keening on Wall Street today, one from Sprint Nextel announcing a single-market launch of Xohm, its new WiMax wireless service. The company lit up Xohm only in Baltimore today, fulfilling its promise to have the service up and running by the end of September. That said, it’s still nearly a year late.

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Steve Jobs: Alive and Kicking

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Explain Our SMS Pricing? Sure. Space Telescope Transmission Costs x 4

If wireless providers applied the per-byte pricing scheme they use for SMS texting to other data transmitted over their cellular networks, it would cost nearly $6,000 to download a single 4 MB song. Yet the price of text messaging has doubled industrywide in the last three years. Why?

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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Dell: If at First You Fail Miserably …

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$73 Million: How’s That for an Early Termination Fee …

Sprint Nextel is finally reconsidering its $200 early termination fee, albeit under duress. A California judge ruled Tuesday that the company must pay $73 million to the nearly two million class-action customers who sued it for slapping them with early-termination fees.

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