Sprint is having a very hard rising above this rut they are in. Quarter after quarter, Sprint is reporting both financial and susbscriber loss. Unfortunately for them, Q1 of this year did not shape up any better. How bad is it you ask? Well this quarter alone, Sprint lost more than 1 million subscribers. Customer loss is not nearly the ... continued »

This week saw the introduction of a new age to come in Windows Mobile devices. At the May 6th event held by HTC in London, we saw the HTC Diamond in action. Phone Mag provided you with a hands on gallery, a hands on video, and a tour of it's new 3D TouchFLO interface. The device will begin it's availability ... continued »

Talk about on again, off again, but it appears that finally, Sprint and Clearwire are going to get the whole WiMAX thing going. Not without the help from numerous corporate investors though. These investments come from the likes of Comcast, Google, Time Warner, and Intel, who had already invested in Clearwire. Smaller cable provide Bright House, contributed as well. continued »

After weeks of speculation, Nokia finally announced the N810 Internet Tablet WiMAX Edition at the beginning of the month.  While we knew it would be available at some point over the Summer - to coincide with Sprint's increasing WiMAX coverage - what we weren't sure of was the premium you'd have to pay over the standard touchscreen device.  Thanks to ... continued »

NextWave announced today that they are considering a plan to auction off their spectrum holdings. NextWave has hired Deutsche Bank and UBS to investigate the possibility of auctioning it's spectrum off. NextWave has spectrum holdings covering more than 251 million people, which means they have a significant amount to offer. The 700MHz auction was considered to be a last chance ... continued »

The WiMAX Forum, who is a special interest group that represents the WiMAX technology, is saying that by the year 2012 there will be more than 133 million users of the technology. The study says that by that time, more than %70 of WiMAX users will be using the mobile implementation of the technology, on devices such as mobile phones ... continued »

Technical capabilities be damned, WiMAX is here first and LTE might as well not bother.  That's pretty much been the message from Sprint this week, whose representative at the WiMAX Forum Asia has been talking up the company's gradually emerging next-gen network.  Teresa Kellett, Sprint's director of global development, compared the upcoming battle between LTE and WiMAX to the ongoing ... continued »

It's usually tough to summarise a week when we've had a big cellular show, and this one is little different.  Of course, the show in question was CTIA Wireless 2008, held in Las Vegas, and you can review all the coverage courtesy of this tag.  Of the new handsets, Sprint grabbed headlines with the Instinct by Samsung, an obvious iPhone ... continued »

UK wireless regulator Ofcom has announced their single largest release of spectrum to date, the 2010-2025MHz and 2500-2690MHz bands (known as 2.6 GHz), which it claims are ideal for "high-speed, high-capacity mobile data connections enabling the delivery of advanced mobile services using technologies such as WiMAX or evolutions of 3G technology."  Unlike the FCC's recent 700MHz auction, Ofcom will be ... continued »

As the hammer came down on the FCC's 700MHz spectrum auction last month, winners (and losers) were forced to be coy about their plans under the Commission's anti-collusion rules.  That ban on discussion ended late yesterday, and various key players in the proceedings have stepped up to give their version of events.  As expected, Verizon and AT&T have been crowing ... continued »