Sprint to cut 1,100 workers

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Sprint to lay off 1,100 workers

Sprint to lay off 1,100 workers 06/16/2004 04:29 PM
Sprint said today it plans to lay off 850 workers in its Sprint Business Solutions division and as many as 250 employees in corporate jobs that support that division, including IT workers.

Sprint to Lay Off Additional 550 Workers
(AP)

Sprint to Lay Off Additional 550 Workers
(AP) 05/07/2004 07:08 PM
AP - Sprint Corp. announced it will lay off an additional 550 workers by the end of the year as a result of its ongoing restructuring of its wireless and traditional phone divisions, bringing the total number of job cuts to 2,550.

Sprint PCS goes CSS

Sprint PCS goes CSS 11/19/2003 12:31 AM

The Sprint PCS site has relaunched, using XHTML 1.0 transitional and CSS. It's another great example of a mostly web standards compliant commerical/corporate; there are a few validation errors thanks to a quarrelsome CMS. France Rupert is the lead developer behind the new site and is promising a detailed writeup of the process and challenges behind the redesign. France hails from Kansas City, so hopefully we'll be able to get him along to a web meetup in the not too distant future.

In related news, WaSP have an excellent interview up with Dan Cederholm, lead developer behind the high profile Fast Company and Inc.com web standards redesigns and squire of Simple Bits. The interview has a lot of great anecdotes about how switching to standards saved both time and money.

Sprint to Get Behind WiMax

Sprint to Get Behind WiMax 02/06/2005 01:11 AM
Technocrat.net Feb 6 2005 2:25AM GMT

Sprint Tries Out New IBM Tools

Sprint Tries Out New IBM Tools 07/06/2004 01:52 PM
Sprint Corp. will be among the first customers to take advantage of new software IBM introduced last week to help wireless carriers provide better service to enterprise customers.

New Sprint TV Service Is Not TV

New Sprint TV Service Is Not TV 11/17/2003 09:13 AM
Techfocus Nov 17 2003 8:29AM ET

Sprint goes to the videos

Sprint goes to the videos 12/03/2003 12:35 AM
Sprint PCS plans to unveil its own version of cell phone video on Wednesday, a service designed to let people exchange 15-second homemade videos.

Sprint PCS goes to the videos

Sprint PCS goes to the videos 12/03/2003 01:24 PM
CNET Dec 3 2003 12:17PM ET

Sprint earnings down 87%

Sprint earnings down 87% 04/20/2004 10:15 PM
USA Today Apr 21 2004 2:49AM GMT

Sprint Rebate

Sprint Rebate 02/25/2003 12:20 PM
Through the end of March, Sprint is offering a $100 rebate on the Handspring Treo 300, Samsung SPH-i330, and Toshiba...

Sprint Announces LG MM-535

Sprint Announces LG MM-535 03/14/2005 06:02 PM

Sprint is showing off the LG MM-535 slider phone, with a 1.3-megapixel camera, 3D sound, and video-on-demand services. Jon Gales from MobileTracker thought he recalled the MM-535 to have Bluetooth, but there's no word on it in Sprint's feature lists.

Expect the LG MM-535 for around $230 after rebates.

LG MM-535 announced by Sprint PCS [MobileTracker]

Sprint Name Wins Out

Sprint Name Wins Out 06/24/2005 09:26 PM
SiliconValley.Internet.com Jun 25 2005 1:57AM GMT

Sprint Gets BlackBerry

Sprint Gets BlackBerry 08/16/2004 12:41 PM

Ooh, I can slide this one in short and sweet: Sprint is getting BlackBerry, later this year. Details to follow.

Read - BlackBerry Coming to Sprint [SlashPhone]

Gold for GB sprint four

Gold for GB sprint four 08/28/2004 02:48 PM
Britain's men's 4x100m relay team win a stunning gold medal in Athens.

The New AT&T Wireless Is Sprint

The New AT&T Wireless Is Sprint 05/18/2004 03:04 PM
This isn't a huge surprise, considering that everyone expected this move back in March, but AT&T has made it official that they've signed an MVNO agreement with Sprint to use their network for their own wireless carrier offering. Just like Sprint's deal with Virgin Mobile, Sprint gives AT&T the network, and AT&T does all the branding. They plan to offer bundled offerings that tie the mobile phone service to their local, long distance and VoIP offerings - all of which makes sense. What still hasn't be made clear, however, is if they'll go back to using the AT&T Wireless name. They get the rights back as soon as the current AT&T Wireless completes the deal to be acquired by Cingular (late this year). However, the AT&T Wireless name has such a bad reputation these days, they may be better off not doing so. Besides, the level of confusion among consumers probably isn't worth it. Still, it is amusing to trace the history of AT&T's wireless offerings from a startup they bought, to something they spun out, to something they wish they had again. Of course, maybe they get the last laugh. They got a lot of cash in spinning out AT&T Wireless and now they'll have a wireless offering without actually having to run a network. Either way, it's a bit amusing to see what will more or less amount to a "new entrant" in the space just as everyone was calling for the entire US wireless carrier market to consolidate.

Sprint to axe 1,100 jobs

Sprint to axe 1,100 jobs 06/17/2004 06:50 AM
Competitive market blamed

Sprint plans credits

Sprint plans credits 08/09/2004 07:48 AM
USA Today Aug 9 2004 12:02PM GMT

Sprint rolls out new VPN products

Sprint rolls out new VPN products 01/28/2004 12:30 PM
Sprint Corp. Wednesday announced three new VPN choices for users including its first Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) offerings.

Sprint, SBC in Wi-Fi Deal (NewsFactor)

Sprint, SBC in Wi-Fi Deal (NewsFactor) 08/27/2004 03:26 PM
NewsFactor - U.S. telecom carriers Sprint (NYSE: FON) and SBC Communications (NYSE: SBC) have announced a reciprocal deal, under which their customers will be able to use both companies' wireless Internet connections more easily.

Sprint PCS Keeps Roaming, Isn't Building

Sprint PCS Keeps Roaming, Isn't Building 07/16/2004 08:19 PM
Sprint PCS quietly sloughs off its own building plans?: This article notes that Sprint PCS said it would have access via 2,100 access points within a year. True. But they told me that 1,300 of those would be locations that they built out themselves. In this Wi-Fi Planet article linked above, the general manager of wireless LAN service for Sprint PCS -- not the person in this role last summer -- said, We are not deploying those ourselves. But that's not entirely accurate: they're building Truckstop.net locations via their managed services division, and then Truckstop.net is operating those locations and allowing Sprint PCS to roam on them. So they're not deploying, but they are building and supporting....

Sprint, Nextel to Merge

Sprint, Nextel to Merge 12/19/2004 03:18 PM
Sprint and Nextel announced their $40 billion merger of equals: Sprint's CDMA technology has been a block to offer push-to-talk (PTT) services that Nextel has made great profits on. Nextel has no migration plan for next-generation data services, although they've been testing approaches that aren't integrated with their iDEN voice technology. Sprint has already committed to spending billions on 3G high-speed voice and data systems. In seemingly unrelated news a few days ago, Cingular dropped its challenge to the FCC proposal that would allow Nextel to reorganize its scattered chunks of frequency, giving them new contiguous spectrum in exchange for paying for the cost of moving the public-safety incumbents to Nextel-vacated frequencies. It's a multi-billion-dollar deal that the FCC offered, and Verizon Wireless and Cingular Wireless now no longer oppose it, and one would expect Sprint and Nextel to accept the deal, although Nextel wants to pay substantially less. The new Sprint Nextel is at a rough parity with the subscriber base of Cingular-post-AT&T Wireless acquisition and Verizon Wireless (all on their lonesome). Sprint Nextel will have 35 million subscribers, Cingular 47 million, and Verizon Wireless 42 million. T-Mobile becomes a distant fourth (about 16 million subscribers) with no data upgrade plan in sight. This didn't elude the Wall Street Journal, which filed this report in which T-Mobile notes that worldwide they have about 70 million cell phone users which allows them to compete on scale for handsets and network components....

Sprint touts off-Net networks

Sprint touts off-Net networks 07/22/2004 04:27 PM
The long-distance giant reveals how many companies have signed up for its "Peerless IP" offering.

Bluetooth Phone Available from Sprint

Bluetooth Phone Available from Sprint 12/23/2003 12:54 PM
BrightHand Dec 23 2003 11:57AM ET

Coming in '05: AT&T Mobile (Via Sprint)

Coming in '05: AT&T Mobile (Via Sprint) 12/30/2004 12:04 AM
AT&T is expected to announce as soon as next week details about how it plans to offer mobile phone service using Sprint's cellular network.

Sprint Rings Up UMG, WMG (Reuters)

Sprint Rings Up UMG, WMG (Reuters) 01/18/2004 10:21 AM
Reuters - Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group are the latest players in Sprint PCS Vision's blossoming Music Tones business.

Sprint PCS Bundles in Wi-Fi Interface

Sprint PCS Bundles in Wi-Fi Interface 07/29/2004 05:13 PM
Sprint will include a Wi-Fi user interface on its Novatel wireless data cards: The feature just offers a single interface--users must still use a separate Wi-Fi card or their laptop's built-in Wi-Fi capability to connect. Having a single interface means that customers will have the same experience whether they are using a Sprint-owned hotspot, a hotspot from an operator that Sprint has a roaming agreement with, or the PCS network, said a Sprint PCS spokeswoman. A single interface like this is surely helpful but it seems that at this stage the market is ready for tighter integration that includes the access on a single card as well....

What Sprint told us last week

What Sprint told us last week 12/08/2003 05:57 PM
Almost forgot to mention that we met with Sprint last week and was able to glean the following nuggets of information: 1. They still haven't decided whether or not to carry Sony Ericsson's T608 cellphone. Basically, Sony Ericsson quit making CDMA phones (at least for North America) and they are trying to sort out who would support the phone if it broke, etc. Also, even if they do decide to offer the T608, they haven't settled on whether or not it would have Bluetooth enabled (though we'd love to see how long it took someone to hack that). 2. They're thinking about carrying Samsung's i600 Smartphone. 3. The PCS Vision network is due to get a bump up in speed early next year. Sprint is going to improve the compression, which should mean faster download speeds. 4. Sprint should finally support SMS (rather than the cumbersome web interface they have...

Speculation Swirls Around Sprint

Speculation Swirls Around Sprint 05/06/2004 07:31 AM
TheStreet.com May 6 2004 11:24AM GMT

A second Sprint phone with Bluetooth?

A second Sprint phone with Bluetooth? 06/22/2004 03:53 PM
Engadget Jun 22 2004 8:35PM GMT

Sprint claims 'world spe

Sprint claims 'world spe 06/18/2004 10:08 PM
Techzonez Jun 19 2004 2:21AM GMT

Sprint Has 3G 1xEV-DO in Sights

Sprint Has 3G 1xEV-DO in Sights 06/23/2004 02:51 AM
3G Jun 23 2004 7:28AM GMT

Sprint Nextel's New Logo

Sprint Nextel's New Logo 06/24/2005 04:02 PM

Every time a pin drops, an angel gets its wings.

That's all I've got. I actually don't hate it, really, and it'll be good for Sprint to ditch the red and white (also Verizon's colors) to go with something a bit more shocking. Now they just need to co-brand a phone with DeWalt with swappable drill bits.

AT&T, Sprint in Wireless Pact

AT&T, Sprint in Wireless Pact 05/18/2004 08:54 AM
TheStreet.com May 18 2004 1:18PM GMT

Sprint Press Releases

Sprint Press Releases 03/19/2003 10:25 PM
Sprint plans to offer the Samsung SPH-A600 and the Samsung SPH-i700 and Hitachi G1000 Pocket PC Phone Edition devices. The...

Sprint and SBC announce Wi-Fi roaming
pact

Sprint and SBC announce Wi-Fi roaming
pact 08/27/2004 01:31 PM
SiliconValley.com Aug 27 2004 1:45PM GMT

Sprint, SBC Make Roaming Deal… Again?

Sprint, SBC Make Roaming Deal… Again? 08/27/2004 01:30 PM
Sprint and SBC said their Wi-Fi customers can roam between the networks: Just a month ago, USA Today published an unconfirmed report that the two had struck a roaming deal. The most important aspect of a roaming deal between Sprint and SBC may be that it opens up more access to airport hotspots for customers. Airports have been hotly contested space and operators have fought to "own" airports. That may change anyway, however, with a recent clarification of FCC rules that would allow airlines or shops in airports to deliver their own Wi-Fi services. That means that eventually, multiple operators may build networks in each airport. Other than airports, the rest of the agreement between SBC and Sprint may include a lot of overlap. They both already have deals with Wayport and Concourse. Sprint has a roaming agreement with AT&T Wireless, which could also become redundant assuming the AT&T Wireless/Cingular merger goes through. Cingular is part-owned by SBC. At the end of July, USA Today reported that Sprint had just 12 of its own hotspots, which likely does not include its Truckstop.net hotspots that are technically built by Sprint's managed services division. Even if this deal doesn't significantly expand SBC's network, it's one more roaming deal which is a good thing. Such deals help increase the number of networks users can access, which in turn makes subscribing more attractive....

Sprint Says It Will Merge Two Classes of
Its Stock

Sprint Says It Will Merge Two Classes of
Its Stock 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
Sprint, which pioneered the use of tracking stock in the telephone industry, said that it would merge its two classes of stock.

Sprint to bake in BlackBerry for
businesses

Sprint to bake in BlackBerry for
businesses 08/16/2004 01:48 PM
Research In Motion's BlackBerry e-mail and data services will be carried on Sprint's networks.

AT&T to re-enter mobile market with
Sprint

AT&T to re-enter mobile market with
Sprint 05/18/2004 10:31 AM
Spurred by uncertainty over its current wireless contract, the long-distance giant announces a five-year deal with Sprint and says it will launch new cellular services before the end of 2004.
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