Articles tagged with: Nextel and Tim
Mobile Phones Get Smarter at CTIA with Touch Screen Tech
This month's International CTIA Wireless 2009 event in Las Vegas showcased in the mobile handset's industry increasing focus on smart phones, as illustrated by prevalence of announcements related to touch-screen technology, according to iSuppli. more
Related Tags: android, google, sony-ericsson, , wi-fi, microsoft, nokia, sim, iphone, samsung, wimax, apple, isuppli, sprint-nextel, gps, wind, lte, docomo, ericsson, ovi, palm, blackberry, rim, sony, kyocera, mobile-internet, touch-screen, navteq, sprint, smart, windows, las-vegas, ctia, kyocera-wireless
Mexico's Iusacell Loses 600,000 Customers Due to Clean-Up
The Mexican mobile market finished the year on 77.93m customers with a below-par performance for customer growth in Q4 2008. In fact, the quarterly increase of 2.24m was the smallest gain since Q2 06 and the smallest fourth-quarter gain in five years. The main cause of this was Iusacell's loss of 0.56m customers as the result of a customer clean-up programme. more
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Head of Sprint's CDMA Network Resigns
Sprint nextel has lost another senior director after the President of the CDMA network division, John Garcia resigned suddenly on Friday. Keith Cowan, currently Sprint's President of strategy and corporate development, will take over Garcia's duties until a permanent replacement can be found. more
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Private Equity Firms Interested in Buying Sprint Nextel's iDEN Network
Sprint nextel is attracting interest from private equity firms who are reported to be interested in taking control of the company's iDEN network. The company has confirmed that it would consider a sale, but that no specific activity is currently being carried out. more
Related Tags: deutsche-telekom, wimax, sprint-nextel, alltel, cdma, iden, sprint, telekom, USA
KU researchers hoping to improve broadband wireless services
As cell phones become mobile computers with broadband Internet access, University of Kansas researchers examine technologies that could aid in the widespread deployment of high-speed wireless access for the Sprint nextel network. more
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Growth of Unlocked iPhones Means Trouble for Synchronoss
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) -- While products from Apple -- such as the iPod and iPhone -- are known to have a "halo effect" that can boost other businesses, at least one company has found that the devil is in the details. more
Related Tags: cisco, ipod, sprint-nextel, sprint, weather, vodafone-group, andrew, goldman-sachs
Who are the 20 Largest Operators in the Americas?
At the end of the September quarter, the ten largest networks in the Caribbean and Latin America region all had a minimum of 10 million customers. This remains the case in the current quarter, with those same ten and only those ten having passed this mark. In fact, the status quo is essentially undisturbed, with each of the ten remaining in the same place as they were three months earlier. In the light of this, we have decided to deviate slightly from our normal practice and to display the leading CALA operators together with their North American counterparts. more
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Vivo, Oi, TIM win first 3G licenses
Brazilian mobile operators Vivo, Oi and TIM picked up on Tuesday three of four 3G licenses available for area 1, news service AgĂȘncia Estado reported. more
Related Tags: 3g-license, oi, 3g-licenses, vivo, Brazil
SK Telecom: Offered to Buy Sprint Stake in Mid-Nov
SEOUL -(Dow Jones)- South Korea's SK Telecom, Friday said it had sought to acquire a stake in U.S. wireless services provider Sprint nextel, although it still has to receive the company's official response to its offer. more
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