May

7

Sprint and all the rumors

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May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

First Sprint was rumored to be taken over in a not so pleasant way by a bunch of Germans aka T-Mobile and now it appears they are trying to stave off any takeover attempts by finally cementing that WiMax deal with Clearwire with cable operator Bright House Networks injecting $3.2 billion to back the venture. [...]

Mar

3

Sprint’s epic collapse

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March 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Sprint has announced their numbers for the Q4 of 2007, and the industry was prepared for some pretty abhorent numbers but no one was prepared for the results. In 2007, Sprint lost $29.5 billion, now consider that Sprint is valued at $23 billion and you can start to see how ugly the numbers really are. [...]

Feb

21

The price of owning a Blackberry

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February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

In the past few months Research in Motion has seemingly been pushed to the background by all the recent exciting product launches in the wireless industry. They appear to be loosing track to Apple’s iPhone, Nokia’s N series, and even HTC’s touch. Not to mention the new SonyEricsson Xperia X1 that is poised to be [...]

Feb

7

The all in one unlimted plan from Sprint

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February 7, 2008 | 3 Comments

In what is a long time coming, a major wireless provider has announced a pilot program that gives an all in one unlimited plan that includes the major features of a power user: Unlimited voice calling, SMS (text messaging), Web, Email, and even MMS (picture messaging). There are some indications that BlackBerry isn’t included but [...]

Jan

25

2007 4Q Financial Reports

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January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

In a stunning announcement AT&T Mobile added a U.S. Wireless Company record of 2.7 million new activations in the 4th quarter of 2007, this contributed to them eclipsing the 70 million subscriber mark. Profits soared to $3.14 billion, a 62% increase from 2006, ARPU went over $50, and data revenues increased over 50%. Of course [...]

Jan

24

The state of the wireless industry

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January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

A glaring stat in the 3Q ‘07 financial numbers of the top U.S. wireless companies shows that one of the top five companies had so few new activations and so many customers leaving, that they had a activation total of -60,000. The company happens to be Sprint and their acquisition of Nextel is looking like [...]

Aug

9

The American Dream…in Europe

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August 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Many recent developments in the mobile phone industry have had one thing in common and that is Europe, a place we left some 300 years ago and have largely forgot about except when they need help stopping Germany from from taking over and making everyone wear really tight leather pants.
Case in point the BlackBerry 8830 [...]

Aug

3

Nokia must be butter cause they are on a roll

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August 3, 2007 | 4 Comments

Nokia is leading the way in the mobile phone industry with innovation and massive profitability and its paying off huge for their stock holders. Lets break the recently announced numbers down and yes there is math involved so get out that number 2 pencil folks…just kidding.
Net Sales of 12.6 Billion (That’s Billion with a B [...]

Jul

29

Google and Sprint marriage

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July 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Google is set to provide fee web search, interactive communications and social networking tools to Sprint’s next generation WiMax wireless data network. This is yet in another agreement from Google trying to firmly implant their presence into the mobile industry. This along with their interest to take part in the FCC wireless spectrum auction with [...]

Jul

23

HP iPAQ 510 Voice Messenger

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July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This week at Content Quake we will be looking at alternatives to the standard of getting new cell phones directly through your cellphone provider.
Ultimately it costs about $1000 for a wireless company to get you to sign the initial contract on the dated line, so these companies have a lot of leeway in how much [...]

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