Sprint touts off-Net networks

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Another Billion into Networks, as Sprint
PCS Heads for 3G; Cingular Makes Plans,
Too

Another Billion into Networks, as Sprint
PCS Heads for 3G; Cingular Makes Plans,
Too 06/22/2004 10:34 AM
Sprint PCS joins the third-generation cellular rush in the U.S. by committing a billion dollars to building a 1xEV-DO network: The company had previously signaled its interest in waiting and then deploying an EVDV (data/voice) network that might have had higher download speeds and integrated voice into the same 3G footprint. Now they say that some markets will have their brand of service year's end with many more in 2005. Cingular, meanwhile said today that UMTS could appear as soon as next year. Cingular had recently expressed doubts that with the current available spectrum they could deploy 3G data networks before 2006. Now, they plan a trial of two kinds of UTMS: one operates at 384 Kbps (unclear if this is the rated speed or the typical speed), and another at up to 14.4 Mbps. That's megabits per second. Trials will start in Atlanta this summer, and extend in 2005 to the rest of the country. AT&T Wireless, which Cingular is in the middle of acquiring, has reiterated its plans in the last few months to try UMTS's W-CDMA flavor in a few cities by the end of 2004. T-Mobile's plans are obscure, but EDGE (2.5G/100 Kbps) should be on its way. Nextel will most likely pursue a private cell data plan with higher speeds but that use none of the popular flavors. Suddenly, some towns with no-better-than-modem wireless speeds could have four competing cellular data networks with 100 to 400 Kbps average download speeds. (All of these flavors ostensibly have restricted uploads of about 50 Kbps, however.) Expect price competition. At $80 per month flat for Verizon Wireless's high-speed network, the race to the bottom will start in earnest. Verizon Wireless will still likely have a leg up by offering service first in most competitive cities....

TeraSpan Networks Completes Last Mile
Build for Sprint Canada

TeraSpan Networks Completes Last Mile
Build for Sprint Canada 06/17/2004 11:39 AM
BC Technology Jun 17 2004 4:19PM GMT

STSN and Sprint PCS Roam Lopsidedly; and
Whither Cell Companies' Wi-Fi Networks?

STSN and Sprint PCS Roam Lopsidedly; and
Whither Cell Companies' Wi-Fi Networks? 02/17/2004 05:02 PM
STSN and Sprint PCS will offer bilateral roaming on each other's Wi-Fi networks. The hitch? Sprint PCS has two locations, neatly avoided in this press release: I spoke to STSN last week about today's announcement, and while they want to position it as bilateral roaming, it's really a resale agreement from them to the carrier unless Sprint PCS follows through on the plan they spoke to me and other press about last July in which they had originally intended to build 1,300 of their own locations. So far, Sprint PCS has built two Wi-Fi hotspots that they own and operate. STSN has over 500 mostly hotel properties in North American, and nearly 200 in Europe that aren't covered in this agreement, with a worldwide total of 900 including a couple of hundred properties yet to be built out. I asked Michael Jones, the senior VP of sales at STSN, whether we would start seeing more of a clearinghouse approach in which networks linked through an intermediary fee settlement system instead of these one-at-a-time peering arrangements. He said, "We are very selective at choosing who we are peering with." Apparently, in testing, they're finding that some hotspots don't offer the consistency they want and haven't secured their systems in a way that STSN requires. Jones agrees that industry standards for hotspot operation would make it easier to move to a clearinghouse model. "There has to be some form of governance over those service-level requirements," he said. Meanwhile, Sprint PCS's failure to build out even a fraction of the locations that they predicted eight months ago seems to be an industry trend. Even though 2004 was finally supposed to be the year of the hotspots, we haven't heard boo from Cometa since they deployed 250 locations in Seattle (their first of many cities, they said, to get that kind of coverage), SBC (which predicted thousands of locations over a couple of years), T-Mobile (Kinko's, Borders, and Starbucks seems to still be their primary focus), or AT&T Wireless (a few airports and other deals, but mostly reselling Cometa and Wayport). Sprint PCS customers can roam to networks owned by Wayport, Airpath, Cometa, and Concourse. I spoke to a Verizon Wireless manager by accident a few weeks ago, and he said that the company doesn't plan to do more than resell service. Nextel has its own cards up its sleeves related to the licensed...

IP3 Networks, Sprint, and Safari Telecom
Offer High-Speed Internet Access at
Ryder Cup 2004

IP3 Networks, Sprint, and Safari Telecom
Offer High-Speed Internet Access at
Ryder Cup 2004 09/17/2004 11:38 PM
Investors Business Daily Sep 18 2004 3:43AM GMT

WiFi, Cellular, and Wired Networks
Merging To Form Pervasive Networks in
Homes and Offices, Says INSIGHT Research

WiFi, Cellular, and Wired Networks
Merging To Form Pervasive Networks in
Homes and Offices, Says INSIGHT Research 12/22/2004 01:46 AM
Pervasive networks—a ubiquitous “fabric” of computing, information, entertainment, and telemetry capability tied together by high-speed wired and wireless networks—are emerging from a flurry of new communication technologies now being used in home and office networks. Though communications carriers do not offer this type of continuous communication as a service today, the piece parts are already in place. [PRWEB Dec 20, 2004]

Accessing Wireless Sensor Networks:
Gridlogix adds support for Dust
Networks’ SmartMesh™ Wireless Sensor
Network

Accessing Wireless Sensor Networks:
Gridlogix adds support for Dust
Networks’ SmartMesh™ Wireless Sensor
Network 06/17/2005 04:45 PM
Gridlogix, Inc., a leading creator of enabling interoperable XML Web Services technology today announced enhanced support for Dust Networks’ SmartMesh™ wireless sensor network. SmartMesh is a wireless mesh sensor network used in remote monitoring and control. The Gridlogix EnNET® XML Web Service application extends the functionality of the SmartMesh system to include robust protocol translation between the wireless mesh network and other automation protocols and systems. EnNET translates the SmartMesh wireless protocol into BACnet/IP, SNMP, and LonWorks® allowing Dust Networks’ wireless sensor network to be seamlessly integrated with existing automation networks. [PRWEB Jun 16, 2005]

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 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]

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]

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 cut 1,100 workers

Sprint to cut 1,100 workers 06/16/2004 11:30 AM
Citing increased competition in the long-distance market, the company says its will begin laying off employees in July.

Sprint Name Wins Out

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

Sprint to axe 1,100 jobs

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

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 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 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...

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.

Sprint earnings down 87%

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

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 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 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.

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....

Bluetooth Phone Available from Sprint

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

Sprint plans credits

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

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.

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...

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....

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.

Speculation Swirls Around Sprint

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

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

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 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 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...

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 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 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.
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