Sprint's upcoming LTE wireless network launch has been tested by an outside source and while they are much faster than its 3G network, the speeds are slower that Verizon and AT&T's LTE setups.
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The company FreedomPop is now taking pre-orders for its 4G "sleeve" for the iPhone 4 and 4S models for $99, which includes 1 GB of free data service.
FreedomPop plans to not only offer a free amount of wireless Internet access to users per month but will allow its customers to actually trade data usage with each other.
Sprint has announced that it is revamping the pricing and data caps for its PC mobile broadband services, along with a new data plan for tablets and dedicated mobile hotspot devices.
Sprint has announced that starting in November its mobile broadband users will no longer have access to unlimited 4G data plans. Mobile hotspot plans will also no longer have 4G unlimited data.
Sprint stock price ended down 19 percent at the end of trading on Friday after it admitted it might need to raise money to fund a new LTE-based wireless network.
Sprint has announced it will launch its own LTE-based 4G network in 2012 which will cover about 120 million people by the end of that year and 250 million people by the end of 2013.
A new rumor suggests that in addition to the iPhone 5, wireless carrier Sprint will also be offering its own version of Apple's iPad 2 for sale, possibly running on Sprint's WiMax service.
The nation's third largest wireless carrier Sprint has announced it will hold a major press event on October 7 in New York City to give a "strategy update."
Sprint has revealed it has canceled plans to release a version of RIM's Blackberry Playbook tablet that would use Sprint's 4G WiMax wireless network.
The US's third biggest wireless phone and data carrier announced its latest financial results and the numbers were not good. Bloomberg reports that Sprint Nextel had a net loss of $847 million for the quarter...
Sprint is rolling out their 4G network as fast as they can. While they're the only provider currently offering the service, Verizon is about to unleash its LTE network in the coming weeks. A few...
While the wireless industry is just barely getting settled on the original WiMax standard, the WiMax Forum Industry Group is hard at work on its successor. According to Engadget via ComputerWorld, "The standard is due...
Today in New York, Sprint held an EVO 4G hype-up gathering. At the event, Sprint CEO, Dan Hesse, announced some previously unknown details about the device. Special for the event, Sprint turned on their 4G...
While digging through the recent Clearwire financials, Android news site Android and Me uncovered a list of 19 cities that will receive WiMAX coverage this summer. There are currently 32 markets covered by Sprint’s 4G...
While most of us are used to getting high speed Internet connections at home, the office or even the local coffee shop, once we are on the road those high speeds have to stay behind....
We've heard a lot about Sprint's foray into the magical world of 4G communication, with its wondrous speeds (up to four times faster than 3G networks) and limited coverage areas. While it may be a...
The long awaited Sprint 4G smartphone announcement has finally been made. At CTIA, Sprint unveiled its first 4G, WiMAX ready smartphone. Dubbed the HTC EVO 4G, this "superphone" can be used as a mobile hotspot...
Sprint is on an ambitious plan to be the dominate 4G provider in the USA, and today has announced more cities that will be covered by its WiMax blanket. Neowin got its hands on...
Sprint's 4G WiMAX network has gotten nothing but good reviews since they showed off their Overdrive 4G/3G portable router at CES. Since then, news has come in that the number three wireless carrier in the...
Sprint, the only cellular operator in the United States with a 4G network, has confirmed to Forbes that they will be launching their first handset that will utilize their high speed data network this summer. Sprint...
At CES, Sprint announced "Overdrive" to utilize its 4G WiMAX network. However, the device had to also be compatible with their 3G network, due to the limited coverage that WiMAX currently has. Sprint's roll-out of...
Rumors have been flying around about what to expect from Sprint's, self proclaimed, "must attend" event on January 6th. The day before CES, Sprint, along with LG and Microsoft, will be making some sort of...
With 3G technology powering most of the first world's mobile phone connectivity, everyone is already looking forward to the next step up. With WiMAX being passed over by most industry players (the struggling Sprint...
Originally announced in May of this year, the merger between the WiMAX divisions of Sprint and Clearwire is coming ever closer to reality: the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today announced that it has unanimously...
Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. announced today they have canceled their plan to combine the high-speed wireless networks they are building. The two companies originally announced the agreement this July, but were unable to...
The United Nations telecommunications agency in Geneva gave the upstart technology called WiMax a vote of approval, providing a sizable victory for Intel and something of a defeat for competing technologies from Qualcomm and Ericsson....
Montreal will soon deliver wireless Internet and mobile IP telephony to residents. A new WiMAX based Wi-Fi network is being deployed across the metropolitan area, as a result of a joint venture between two Quebec-based...
Primus Canada and Mipps Inc. are conducting WiMAX IEEE 802.16e-2005 (3.5 GHz) trials in Hamilton, ON, using new WiMAX equipment from Alcatel-Lucent. The WiMAX trial is free for Hamilton residents and small businesses, and...
At Interop in Las Vegas, Fujitsu Microelectronics America has announced its first mobile silicon on chip WiMax product. The MB86K21 802.16e, samples of which will start shipping in August, is designed to show significant performance...
With the emergence of more WiMAX devices as well as initiatives by telecom services providers, the global WiMAX market is set for robust growth in 2008, according to Sriram Viswanathan, managing director of Intel Capital...
US consumers have a "significant preference" for WiMax mobile wide area broadband over mobile cellular data and Wi-Fi services, research has revealed. An In-Stat survey conducted earlier this year with over 1,200 respondents suggests that...
The relentless development of WiMAX products worldwide seems to have cooled down recently due to confirmed or rumored retrenchments of WiMAX projects by some leading players, according to market sources. Uncertainty over the prospect of...
IBM has joined the WiMax Forum, an industry organisation that promotes the upcoming wireless standard. WiMax is designed to deliver high-speed wireless internet access over a wide range, and operators expect the technology to provide...
Milton Keynes will become the first UK city to use WiMax broadband technology when trials begin in December. The system uses specific bands of radio spectrum to provide long-range wireless access speeds of up to...
The mass market for WiMax technology faces a number of challenges, but will probably reach its potential within five years. "Now that the certification of WiMax equipment has started and coverage areas have begun to...
Intel's next-generation chipset for WiMax devices will support either fixed or mobile versions of the wireless broadband technology, and all the equipment vendors that have adopted the company's current product plan to use the new...
Intel is set to begin volume production of its second-generation WiMAX chips, the Rosedale 2 as well as its WiFi/WiMAX dual mode chip, the Ofer-R, by the end of this year, according to market sources...
The first four WiMAX products have received certification from the WiMAX Forum, the organization said yesterday. Though more than 150 deployments and trials of WiMAX products have already been launched and tested, the certification...
Intel Corp., the world's largest microchip maker, said on Thursday it expected to implement trials of the emerging wireless broadband technology called "WiMax" in Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines by year-end. Intel, which...
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