As they’re making their list and checking it twice, customers can download holiday-friendly apps for their Sprint device to help organize, navigate and shop during the busy holiday season. A variety of useful applications are available to Sprint customers through the Android Market, Palm App Catalog, BlackBerry App World and the Sprint Digital Lounge.
“As more consumers are purchasing smartphones, they are looking for mobile apps that can make them more productive,” said Len Barlik, vice president of wireless and wireline services for Sprint. “Mobile applications are one the fastest growing segments in the wireless industry. Sprint customers can choose from thousands of apps and find the ones they want for fun, work or even to help with their holiday preparations.” | |
Sprint today announced the launch of Sprint 4G mobile broadband throughout the Austin area. As a result, streaming video, fast file downloads and uploads and turbo-charged web browsing are no longer just home, office or coffee shop benefits. Sprint 4G customers can enjoy a blazing fast wireless mobile broadband experience across the city, whether they’re working at a remote location, taking a break on campus, sitting at a favorite eatery, or as a passenger on the freeway or public transportation.
Austin is one of the first communities in Texas to enjoy 4G wireless connections from Sprint, the first national wireless carrier to test, launch and market 4G technology. Sprint 4G delivers download speeds up to 10 times faster than 3G.1 Sprint 4G is like a hotspot designed to reach across Austin. View 4G coverage at www.sprint.com/4G.
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| Boost Mobile (a division of Sprint) today announced the availability of Motorola Debut i856w. Designed for fashion savvy consumers, Motorola Debut i856w adds stylish ivory coloring and flattering front and back detailing to Boost Mobile’s first slider phone.
Motorola Debut i856w creates a striking balance of modern luxury and design edginess with its combination of subtle color tones, finishes and modern graphics. As with Motorola Debut i856, the stylish slider easily glides open and closed for instant communication. In addition to multi-media features like a music player and threaded text messaging, Motorola Debut i856w provides one-touch instant access to the easy-to-use 1.3MP camera with video capture and playback directly on the face of the phone. |  |
Sprint today announced that it will be the only wireless carrier to offer live NFL Network game telecasts via its exclusive NFL Mobile Live application and on Sprint TV beginning Nov. 12 when NFL Network televises the first of its eight-game Thursday Night Football schedule. Both NFL Mobile Live and Sprint TV are available at no additional cost to Sprint data subscribers with a data plan.
The first televised game features the San Francisco 49ers hosting the Chicago Bears on NFL Network. NFL Network’s Thursday night telecasts will be available to Sprint subscribers including games on Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 26) and special NFL Network games on Saturday, Dec. 19, and Christmas Day (Friday, Dec. 25).
One of Sprint’s most popular applications, NFL Mobile Live reached 1 million users more quickly than any other application in the company’s history during the 2008 season. Usage of NFL Mobile Live nearly tripled since the 2008 season, making it Sprint’s No. 2 most-popular sports and news app behind Sprint TV. Sprint subscribers can download NFL Mobile Live by texting NFL to 7777 (standard text-messaging rates apply). More information is available at www.sprint.com/nfl or www.nfl.com/sprint.
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Sprint Nextel Corp. today announced that the company will take actions in the fourth quarter of 2009 to reduce internal and external labor costs by at least $350 million on an annualized basis. The actions include the elimination of 2,000 to 2,500 positions within the company. The impact on geographic locations will vary, and many impacted positions will be eliminated by December 31, 2009.
The reduction impacts positions companywide, including those previously announced this month in the Wholesale organization, as well as a reduction in contractor and other outside labor. The company is taking this action in a careful manner to ensure that there is no impact on the improved customer experience that has been reflected in much higher levels of satisfaction in customer surveys and in independent performance tests. Sprint has pledged to not waver on the company’s commitment to quality service and products.
Sprint has seen a notable reduction in calls per subscriber to customer care and increased customer satisfaction resulting from customer service improvements for seven sequential quarters. In this period, the company has been able to discontinue the use of 27 call centers as call volume has decreased in the wake of service improvements.
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Sprint announced it will add the new BlackBerry Curve 8530 smartphone to it’s lineup of devices (as well as Verizon Wireless). Customers can visit http://www.sprint.com/blackberrycurve8530 to pre-register for this next generation of the popular BlackBerry wireless device on America’s most dependable 3G network1 with the affordability of Sprint’s Everything Data plans featuring Any Mobile, AnytimeSM. Pricing and availability will be announced at a later date.
BlackBerry Curve 8530 smartphone makes it even easier to enjoy music on-the-go with dedicated keys to skip to the next song on a playlist, pause or play. It comes preloaded with several multimedia applications including BlackBerry Media Sync, Sprint Music Store, Sprint TV and Pandora. It also boasts dedicated applications for a smoothly integrated social networking experience with Facebook, MySpace and Flickr. BlackBerry Curve 8530 will be available in three color options – Black, Royal Purple and Red.
Sprint’s BlackBerry Curve 8530 will offer BlackBerry App World for instant access to thousands of applications. Sprint has employed an open Internet approach, and the Sprint Application Developer Program has been providing tools for third-party developers, since Sprint first launched the Wireless Web on its phones in 2001.
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Sprint has launched the SANYO SCP-3810 offering the essential features consumers rely on to stay connected. SCP-3810 is polished with a luxurious mirrored finish in trendy Regal Red or Black Onyx, with a translucent OLED display glowing through, to subtly show the time or caller ID. It boasts a 1.3 megapixel camera and a large, easy-to-use keypad and a large, 2.4-inch QVGA screen with a convenient large-font option for better legibility. Operating on Sprint’s 1xRTT network, SCP-3810 offers instant access to the Web, email and text messaging. BASIC SPECIFICATIONS - Two color options: Regal Red and Black Onyx
- Dimensions: 3.8 inch x 2.0 inch x 0.7 inch; Weight: 4 ounces
- Main Display: 1.45 inch x 1.93 inch, 65K color TFT LCD (240x320)
- Standard battery: Removable lithium ion (Li-ion) battery provides up to 5.8 hours of continuous talk time
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Sprint Nextel and Clearwire today announced the launch and availability of their 4G WiMax wireless broadband service in several markets. They two largest markets are Chicago, Illinois, and Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas. Sprint also announced that several markets are now live which in North Carolina, which includes Cary, Chapel Hill, Charlotte, Durham, Greensboro, High Point, Raleigh, and Winston-Salem. Residents will be able to purchase laptop dongles that enables them to access the WiMax network and Sprint's EVDO 3G network in areas where WiMax isn't available.
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Sprint today unveiled Dell Inspiron Mini 10, the first netbook available from Sprint on America’s most dependable 3G network. This companion PC offers blazing-fast Internet access in a convenient, affordable and portable package that can easily fit in a purse, backpack or briefcase. It is now available at select Sprint Stores throughout the Twin Cities for just $199.99 with activation on a Sprint Mobile Broadband plan and a two-year service agreement, after a $100 mail-in rebate.
Dell Inspiron Mini 10 features embedded EV-DO Rev. A wireless service from Sprint that supports faster data rates and higher system capacity, enabling customers to send and receive large amounts of data at broadband speeds comparable to DSL. These faster speeds enable customers to take advantage of robust applications and services, such as wireless voice-over-IP (VoIP), high-speed video telephony, music on-demand and video messaging.
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Sprint today announced the launch of Sprint 4G mobile broadband throughout the Philadelphia area. As a result, streaming video, fast file downloads and uploads and turbo-charged web browsing are no longer just home, office or coffee shop benefits. Sprint 4G customers can enjoy a blazing fast wireless mobile broadband experience across the city, whether they’re working at a remote location, relaxing in the park, sitting at a favorite eatery or as a passenger on the freeway or public transportation – all for just a $10 per month premium over current Sprint 3G mobile data plans.
Philadelphia is one of the first cities to enjoy 4G wireless connections from Sprint, the first national wireless carrier to test, launch and market 4G technology. Sprint 4G delivers download speeds up to 10 times faster than 3G.1 Sprint 4G is like a hotspot designed to reach across Philadelphia. View 4G coverage at www.sprint.com/4G.
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Sprint today announced Nov. 15 as the first day of nationwide availability for Palm Pixi (announced September 9), exclusively available on America’s most dependable 3G network from Sprint. It will cost just $99.99 with a two-year service agreement, after a $50 instant rebate and $100 mail-in rebate and be available at Sprint stores, online, through telesales at 1-800-SPRINT, and at Best Buy, RadioShack and select Wal-Mart stores. (Palm Pixi fact sheet pdf). Running the Palm webOS mobile platform, Palm Pixi lets the user keep multiple activities open and move easily between them, like flipping through a deck of cards, using natural gestures. This allows for easy movement between messaging and email or searching the Web while listening to music, and items are rearranged simply by dragging them. Universal search also makes finding things easy, providing results from both the device and the Web.
Palm webOS brings together the user’s most important information from their phone, at work or on the Web into one logical view. In addition to linking information from Google, Facebook, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and LinkedIn, Palm Pixi adds Yahoo! integration to Palm Synergy3. Palm Synergy offers: | 
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Clearwire Communications, Comcast and Sprint today announced plans to launch their respective 4G mobile Internet services in additional cities in the fourth quarter of 2009. Each of the companies will offer 4G under their own 4G brand.
Clearwire, Comcast and Sprint will each launch commercial 4G service in Philadelphia in the next several weeks with official launch events and retail store openings to follow. In November, Clearwire, Comcast and Sprint will begin sales in Chicago. All three providers will begin selling in Seattle/Tacoma area in early December. Consumers and businesses should expect to see additional network expansions throughout these cities, and a wide-range of independent marketing and advertising initiatives.
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Boost Mobile (a division of Sprint) today announced that calling and texting to Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands is now included in the Boost Mobile $50 Monthly Unlimited and UNLTD By Boost plans.
UNLTD By Boost is the regional wireless service plan operating on Sprint’s CDMA network that includes nationwide talk, text and Web for $50 a month plus applicable taxes and fees. The UNLTD offer is in the following 13 states: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. |
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Sprint Nextel Corp. today announced it will acquire iPCS for approximately $831 million, including the assumption of $405 million of net debt. This transaction value represents 6.4x projected 2010 Adjusted Earnings Before Income, Taxes, and Depreciation. Sprint expects to achieve approximately $30 million of synergies annually in the transaction and expects the transaction to be free cash flow accretive to Sprint in 2010.
Under the terms of the agreement, Sprint Nextel will commence a cash tender offer to acquire all of iPCS’ outstanding common shares for $24.00 per share. This price per share represents a 34 percent premium to iPCS’ closing stock price as of October 16, 2009. The agreement also requires a minimum of a majority of the shares outstanding (on a fully-diluted basis) to be tendered in the offer.
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Sprint today announced availability of the first slider phone offering push-to-talk service, Motorola Debut i856 (also available at Boost Mobile). The handset combines Nextel Direct Connect, best-in-class push-to-talk services, with a stylish multimedia device for both business and consumer applications.
Motorola Debut’s compact slider form factor offers a smooth gliding action for easy one-handed operation, keeps the keypad secure when not in use and offers easy access when needed for instant communication between two people or a group of people, next door or in the next state. It is also the first device to offer the upgraded ability to switch from an active push-to-talk call to an interconnect voice call at the touch of a button.
Motorola Debut can be purchased with Nextel Direct Connect calling plans in all Sprint sales channels, including Sprint retail stores, Business Direct Sales, Telesales (1-800-Nextel-9) and Web sales for just $99.99 with a two-year service agreement and $50 mail-in rebate (excluding taxes). |
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Sprint today announced the upcoming availability of Samsung Moment, Samsung’s first U.S. handset integrating the open and innovative Android platform with the high-speed connectivity of America’s most dependable 3G network2 (EVDO Rev. A.) and the best value in wireless with the Any Mobile, AnytimeSM calling feature. Samsung Moment offers simple device navigation through an optical joystick located just below the expansive display. It features Wi-Fi capability, integrated GPS navigation and accelerometer. Additional features include:
- 3.2-megapixel camera with flash and camcorder with auto-focus
- Stereo Bluetooth 2.0 wireless technology
- Expandable memory up to 32GB
- Sprint TV with live and on-demand programming
- NFL Mobile Live and NASCAR Sprint Cup MobileSM
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The Sprint Open Developer Conference in Santa Clara, Calif., Oct. 26-28, will deliver valuable insights and support from a strong cross-section of leading mobile platforms, from Android and Palm webOS to Java ME, RIM and Windows Mobile, and provide hands-on coding sessions, breakout sessions, event sponsor exhibits and networking opportunities for developers. The conference will address enterprise M2M business solutions, approaches to make developers more profitable, 4G technical/development resources and more.
Steve Elfman, president of Network Operations and Wholesale for Sprint, Jason Mackenzie, vice president of HTC America, and Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer, directors of Developer Relations for Palm, will be leading keynote addresses during the conference. Their keynotes will focus on the relevance of Sprint's truly open initiatives and what that means for developers. In addition, Android team members and technical subject matter experts from Google will lead developers in an in-depth technical discussion.
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Yesterday (Sunday, Sept. 27) Sprint launched a unique form of video entertainment designed to encourage wireless users to belt it out, sing a goodbye song to their current wireless carrier, and choose Sprint instead. In a sign that the times they are a changin’, Sprint is offering Any Mobile, Anytime – a new feature of Sprint Everything Data plans that offers customers unlimited mobile-to-mobile calling from the Sprint Network to ANY wireless phone on any U.S. wireless carrier network at any time.
Sprint’s call to action behind the new spots is simple: go to www.mobilegoodbye.com, choose a preferred tune (based on your current wireless carrier), then watch as a hip crooner bursts into a breakup song aimed at the restrictive calling circles of T-Mobile, AT&T or Verizon Wireless. | |
Sprint today announced the upcoming availability of Samsung Instinct HD, the latest follow-up to the award-winning Samsung Instinct, which made its debut last summer exclusively from Sprint.
Samsung Instinct HD boasts an attractive and intuitive user interface as well as the high-speed connectivity of America’s most dependable 3G network3 (EVDO Rev. A).With Samsung and Sprint’s first high-definition 5-megapixel camera and camcorder and TV-out HD connection, it allows photo and video playback on an HD capable auxiliary device but it does not provide HD playback directly on the handset.
Samsung Instinct HD further improves on the original with an enhanced Web browsing experience, including a full Opera Mobile 9.7 browser, WiFi capabilities, an Ambient Light Sensor and Accelerometer. It also features a Proximity Sensor with haptic feedback that gives users a gentle vibration as they experience the virtual QWERTY keyboard. Beginning Sept. 27, customers will be able to purchase Samsung Instinct HD at Best Buy Mobile, Sprint’s exclusive national retail partner. It will then be available Oct. 11 in all Sprint company-owned retail channels, including Web and telesales for $249.99 with a new two-year service agreement after a $100 mail-in rebate (taxes and service charges excluded). | 
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