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Sprint celebrates successful LTE launch year, says it’s deployed LTE in 49 markets

December 20, 2012
Sprint LTE Availability

It took Sprint (S) a little longer than its rivals to get LTE services up and running, but the carrier has made admirable progress on getting the United States covered ever since its first launch this past summer. Sprint on Wednesday announced that it has deployed LTE to 49 markets over the past six months [...]

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Sprint improves Chicago LTE coverage, brings 4G to a few other new areas

December 19, 2012
DNA Sprint expands LTE coverage in Chicago, while adding six new territories to its 4G reach

Today, Sprint expanded its existing LTE coverage for customers in the Chicago metropolitan area. Not stopping at the Windy City, the carrier dropped six more regions into its high-speed bucket: Indianapolis, Indiana; York and Franklin County Pennsylvania; Santa Rosa Cailfornia, Vallejo, California; Shenandoah County, Virginia and Southern Puerto Rico. These may not be the highly [...]

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Sprint CEO Hesse says helping block the AT&T/T-Mobile merger was his ‘most important decision’

December 17, 2012
Sprint CEO Hesse

People who rejoiced when AT&T’s (T) proposed T-Mobile merger collapsed can at least partly thank Sprint (S) CEO Dan Hesse for deciding to publicly speak out against it. And in an interview with GigaOM this week, Hesse said that his decision to come out against the merger was the “most important” one that he’s made [...]

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Sprint EVO 4G LTE Jelly Bean update: We’re all patiently waiting this morning …

December 13, 2012
Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE update

There's nothing quite like the rollout of a major update on Sprint, folks. Never experience one before? Picture Times Square on New Year's Eve. Add a dash of a major chess tournament, a giant bag of Doritos, and a case of Red Bull. That's pretty much what we've got going on now. It's a friggin' [...]

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Sprint looks to fully acquire Clearwire, sets eyes on spectrum

December 11, 2012

Two months after Sprint took a majority stake in Clearwire, the company is now looking to take complete control of the remaining 50 percent. CNBC is reporting that the carrier, itself not far removed from agreeing to sell off 70 percent of the business to Japan’s SoftBank, is in “active negotiations” with Clearwire in a bid to [...]

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Android Overload: Sprint LTE coming soon to New York, Samsung working on Exynos 5440 quad-core A15 CPU, and more

December 5, 2012
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Etsy is now available on Android. [Google Play] Raiden Legacy now available for Android. [Google Play] Yesterday now available for Android. [Google Play] Google Play Store introduces private channel for internal enterprise apps. [GoogleEnterprise] Sprint LTE coming to a few cities in New York in the coming months. [LightReading] Looks like Staples will also be [...]

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Sprint adding Spotify Premium to carrier billing for Android customers starting November 11th

November 10, 2012
DNP Sprint adding Spotify Premium to carrier billing for Android customers starting November 11th

A few months back Sprint’s Android customers gained the option to charge Google Play purchases to their monthly wireless bill. In an effort to keep the carrier billing party going, the Now Network will soon be adding this option for Spotify Premium customers. An anonymous tipster has shared with us that starting on November 11th, [...]

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Sprint picking up spectrum, customers in Midwest from US Cellular

November 7, 2012
Sprint

Sprint this morning announced that it will acquire from US Cellular 20 MHz of spectrum in the 1900 MHz band in Midwest markets including Chicago, South Bend, Ind., and Champaign, Ill. It'll also get 10 MHz of spectrum in St. Louis. The moves, which are costing Sprint $ 480 million, will affect some 585,000 USCC [...]

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Sprint pays US Cellular $480 million for spectrum and customers

November 7, 2012

Sprint has cemented a deal with US Cellular to pick up its PCS spectrum and around 585,000 customers across the Midwest. The deal will land them 30MHz within the 1900 MHz band across Illinois, Indian, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio, with the carrier stating that it’ll be putting the extra spectrum to use augmenting its coverage [...]

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