Articles tagged with: Washington Dc and Sprint Nextel
Improving Phone Coverage on Washington DC's Underground Railway
The metro railway serving Washington D.C. has started deploying underground mobile phone coverage infrastructure, covering 20 of the Metro's busiest stations. The network, which will provide coverage for customers of Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, AT&T and T-Mobile is expected to switch on in October. more
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Sprint Nextel Planning Large Scale Job Cuts
US based Sprint Nextel is reported to be considering a second round of redundancies - said to be be "extensive". The scale of the layoffs isn't clear, but they are likely to be in the range of a few thousand, the Wall Street Journal reports. Daniel Hesse, Sprint's new CEO is planning to raise the issue with the company's board later this week. The future of the troubled WiMAX network is also expected to be discussed. more
