Sprint has announced it that will start carrying the Motorola Q. Up to this point, Motorola Q was only available through Verizon Wireless, since its launch in May 2006.
Initially, Sprint will sell Motorola Q to business channels and starting in February Motorola Q will be sold in all retail channels.
The Motorola Q features:
Windows Mobile [...]
Sprint Nextel has raised as of October 1st, 2006 the amount it charges users to send an outgoing SMS message. The original rate was 10 cents per message which was increased by 50% to 15 cents. This is a significant percentage wise increase where other carriers charge around 10 cents per message.
Sprint Nextel [...]
Sprint Nextel, six months after the deal was first announced, completed the acquisition of Nextel Partners. Sprint Nextel orignally owned about 31 perscent of Nextel Partners common stock. After the deal is completed, Sprint Nextel will reach out to 54 million addtional people in mid-size and rural areas of 31 states.
According to Business Week, Sprint has a plan to close the $70 billion Sprint - Nextel merger on Friday. Sprint is ready to move forward with the deal despite the legal challenge from Alamos Holdings, Sprint’s largest wireless affiliate.
The $35 billion merger of Sprint and Nextel Communications won approval from the Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department yesterday. The merged mobile phone provider, Sprint Nextel Corporation, will become the third largest wireless phone company in the United States. It will have about 44.6 million subscribers following Cingular and Verizon Wireless, [...]
Motorola and Nextel Communications have announced the launch of the Motorola i560 mobile phone.
Acording to Nextel press release, the Motorola i560 is designed for anyone who exposes a handset to extreme conditions, from construction and public safety workers to rock climbers and cyclists. The Motorola i560 is certified to meet military standards for dust, shock, [...]
According to News.com, Nextel is planning to ask the FCC for more time to comply with the December 31 deadline.
The FCC set a deadline for 95% of all wireless handsets to be locatable to 911 services.
Nextel estimates that 70 - 85 percent of all customers’ cell phones will be complient with the FCC’s request by [...]
Motorala and Nextel announced the availability of the Motorola i760. Motoral calls it “a fashionable new handset with advanced features, including a large color display and five different ways to communicate.”
The Motorola i760’s five ways to connect:
Digital cellular phone service
Direct Connect
Group ConnectSM
Direct Talk
Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)
The Motorola i760 also features 262K colors display and [...]
Business users using the BlackBerry 7520 can take advantage of applications utilizing global positioning systems (GPS) . These new applications are an extension of previously used services available on Nextel Assisted-GPS.
The new applications are set to increase the productivity, increase cost savings, and improve the customer service.
Most of the GPS solution partners target [...]
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