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Sprint axing prepaid carrier Common Cents

Apr 11th

Posted by admin in Techno Updates

Sprint on Friday said it would put an end to its Common Cents Mobile prepaid service and merge it into the Virgin Mobile payLo sevice instead beginning this May. Common Cents was launched less than a year ago, and current users are being informed that service will be unaffected as long as their accounts remain active and they stick to their existing plans. Additional minutes can be purchased from Virgin Mobile.

The Common Cents brand was offered exclusively at Walmart and wasn’t national. Users will get more options under the new payLo plan. The move-out from Walmart will begin in More >

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Sprint may nab LightSquared, Clearwire 4G deals in a month

Apr 7th

Posted by admin in Techno Updates

Credit Suisse analyst Jonathan Chaplin claimed on Thursday that Sprint would have its deal with LightSquared and a new deal with Clearwire could be ready in weeks. He expected the deal, which would let LightSquared lease access to all of Sprint’s cell sites for an LTE-based 4G network, would be done within a month. Clearwire’s deal would focus on getting new wholesale pricing and would probably follow afterwards.

Chaplin predicted Sprint would have to pay as much as $ 2.2 billion up front to make the deals, but the carrier would get $ 500 million immediately from LightSquared to help More >

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Sprint teaser hints Evo View 4G shipping with Android 3.0

Apr 6th

Posted by admin in Techno Updates

A Sprint teaser page has hinted that the HTC Evo View 4G might ship with Android 3.0. Although the version unveiled and which we tried was using Android 2.3, a blurb shows it using “Android 3.0 just for tablets.” The same teaser shows the Evo 3D with Android 2.3 and suggested Sprint was well aware of what its OS plans would be.

HTC has said the Flyer would get Android 3.0, but it has mostly been talking about after-launch upgrades and later releases that would eventually have Android 3.0 preloaded. The Evo View 4G is one of the first carrier More >

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Sprint sells over 250K Airave femtocells

Mar 28th

Posted by admin in Techno Updates

Sprint has announced that its Airave femtocells have been distributed to more than 250,000 customers across the nation. The company’s vice president of network development and engineering, Iyad Tarazi, suggests the number is expected to climb to approximately 1 million over the next few years, according to comments made at the FierceWireless Path to 4G conference.

When compared with the Femto Forum’s suggestion that nationwide femtocell distribution on all carriers has only reached 350,000 units, Sprint appears to account for the majority of current users. Despite the seemingly lackluster numbers, Femto Forum chairman Simon Saunders suggests the personal devices already surpass More >

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Verizon: no interest in buying Sprint to counter AT&T

Mar 22nd

Posted by admin in Techno Updates

Verizon’s wireless chief Dan Mead in a talk downplayed speculation that his network might buy Sprint as a response to the AT&T buyout of T-Mobile. He argued that Verizon wanted to be profitable first rather than try for more market share. He added to Reuters that Verizon wouldn’t stand in the way of the merger, in part because Verizon officials “don’t need them” at Sprint but also because he thought the Department of Justice and FCC might force AT&T to give up too many cell sites or privileges to make it worthwhile.

“Anything can go through if you make enough concessions,” More >

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