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Now You Can Pay For Amazon Prime Through Your Monthly Sprint Bill
Consumers will be able to subscribe to Amazon Prime service on a monthly basis for the first time by adding a Prime subscription to...
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Sprint Offers Money-Back Guarantee To Switch
Sprint wants to take the hesitation out of switching to its network with the launch of a 30-day money-back guarantee to consumers who switch...
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Dixons Carphone, Sprint Ink Deal To Open Up To 500 Sprint Stores
Sprint and Dixons Carphone, the European cellphone and consumer electronics retailer, agreed to form a joint venture to open as many as 500 new...
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Which Wireless Providers Offer Best Purchase Experience?
The wireless purchase experience through carrier channels hit a record high in the latest J.D. Power survey, with AT&T taking the top spot among...
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Sprint Targets Verizon Over Shared-Data Prices
Sprint is simplifying its lineup of shared-data plans and promoting them as offering a better deal than Verizon. The carrier is reducing the number...
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AT&T Fighting Back To Reverse Postpaid Phone Losses
AT&T is getting tired of losing postpaid phone subscribers to other carriers and has joined its national rivals in offering consumers a monetary incentive...
Car Electronics
Sprint, Alcatel OneTouch Team For In-Car Wi-Fi Hot Spot
Sprint is turning cars into mobile hot spots with the launch of the Alcatel OneTouch Ride-fi, which plugs into a vehicle’s 12-volt power socket....
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Sprint Keeps The Rate Cuts Coming
Sprint is pressing down harder on the rate-cut gas pedal. For the second time, the carrier is extending a promotion offering 50 percent off...
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Virgin Mobile Revamps Unlimited Plans
Virgin Mobile, one of Sprint’s prepaid cellular brands, has revamped its lineup of unlimited plans, mostly offering slightly more gigabytes of high-speed data per...
Financial
Verizon Wireless: Competitors Aren’t Stealing Our Subscribers
Verizon Wireless pointed to a continued decline in its retail postpaid churn rate as evidence that cut-rate service plans and other marketing efforts by...
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AT&T Loses, 3 Rivals Gain In Q4 Cellular Subscriber Stakes
AT&T was the biggest and only loser among the four national cellular carriers in the fourth quarter, when the company’s cellphone subscriber base shrank...
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T-Mobile Prices BlackBerry’s Priv Android Phone
T-Mobile priced Blackberry’s first Android phone, the Priv slider, at $719, or $34/month for 18 months when it becomes available January 26 through T-Mobile-branded...
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Sprint Giving Away Free Samsung TVs
It used to be that retailers gave away a soundbar or Blu-ray player with the purchase of a TV, but Sprint is turning that...
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T-Mobile Targets Verizon With Free Hulu Promotion
T-Mobile launched another promotion to steal subscribers from other carriers, this time offering Verizon subscribers a free one-year Hulu subscription if they switch between...
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Sprint Offering 50% Off Competitors’ Plans To Consumers Who Switch
Rate-plan competition kicked into overdrive with a Sprint promotion offering 50 percent off almost all of the current postpaid-rate plans published by Verizon, AT&T...
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Sprint Reveals 4 Android Lollipop Tablets For The Holidays: Tab E, Pixi 7, Slate 8, Slate 10
Cellular-connected tablets were key drivers of growth in Sprint’s third-quarter postpaid net subscriber additions, and the carrier wants to keep it up in the...
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HTC Puffs Up Supply Of Android Marshmallow Phones With A9
HTC’s 5-inch A9 smartphone, one of the industry’s first smartphones with Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS, became available today through AT&T and Sprint, along with...
Financial
Sprint Gains Postpaid Phone Subscribers For First Time In 2 Years
Sprint gained postpaid phone subscribers in the fiscal second quarter ending Sept. 30 for the first time in more than two years, thanks in...
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Sprint Heeds T-Mobile’s Message To Verizon
T-Mobile buzzed Verizon’s headquarters earlier this week to deliver a skywritten message complaining about data-overage charges, but Sprint got the message, not Verizon. Beginning...
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Sprint Throws A Shot In The iPhone 6s Price War With $1/Month Plan
The new iPhones don’t come out until tomorrow, but leasing prices for the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus fell once again with an announcement...
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Sprint’s New iPhones To Boost LTE Speeds
Sprint’s iPhone 6s and 6s Plus will be the carrier’s first iPhones with carrier-aggregation technology to accelerate peak 4G LTE download speeds to 125-135Mbps...
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Sprint To AT&T: Bundle This!
Sprint went on the offensive to blunt the impact of new AT&T-DirecTV service bundles, offering a free year of service to DirecTV subscribers who...
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Sprint To Join Verizon, T-Mobile In Dropping Contracts?
Sprint is backing away from a statement that it would move completely away from contracts later this year but reiterated CEO Marcelo Claure’s observation...
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Sprint Battles T-Mobile Over iPhone
Sprint is preparing for the expected September launch of a new iPhone and taking T-Mobile head-on by letting consumers lease a new base-level iPhone...
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RadioShack Update: Sprint Unpacks Its Bags
OVERLAND PARK, KAN. — Sprint and RadioShack are officially roommates. The carrier, which earlier this year forged a joint leasing deal with the chain’s...
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Sprint Challenges T-Mobile With International Plans
Overland Park, Kansas – Sprint is countering T-Mobile’s cross-border calling initiative with its own Open World initiative. Open World offers free unlimited calls and...
Blogs
Verizon Wireless Fighting Back
Verizon Wireless has long contended it wouldn’t be dragged into the price-war mud, but it has stepped cautiously into the mud up to its...
Financial
SoftBank Chairman: More Confident About Sprint Turnaround
Overland Park, Kan. – Sprint chairman Masayoshi Son admitted he lost confidence in Sprint’s future after a failed bid to merge the company with...
Financial
Sprint Falls To Fourth Place In Subscriber Count
Overland Park, Kan. – Sprint boosted its subscriber base by 675,000 in its first fiscal quarter ending June, but the gain wasn’t enough to...
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AT&T, Verizon Battle To Win Back Smartphone Defectors
Dallas – A limited-time promotion announced today by AT&T gives consumers $300 if they switch from another carrier and buy a smartphone. The promotion,...
CES-2016
Sprint Prepaid Brands Refresh Phones
Overland Park, Kansas – Sprint’s prepaid-service brands are refreshing a handful of low- and mid-priced LTE phones, with Sprint Prepaid and Virgin Mobile replacing...
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Sprint Teams Up With Dixons To Boost U.S. Retail Presence
OVERLAND PARK, KAN – Sprint is teaming up with European CE retailer Dixons Carphone to build out the carrier’s base of Sprint-branded retail stores...
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Sprint Eliminates 600kbps Limit On Video Streaming
Overland Park, Kan. – Sprint swiftly reversed course and eliminated a 600kbps speed cap on video streaming in the All-In unlimited plan launched yesterday....
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Sprint Targeting Rate-Plan Confusion With All-In Plan
Overland Park, Kan. — Sprint is challenging what it called its rivals’ confusing advertising with the launch of an $80 All-In plan that bundles...
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Best Buy Gets Another Exclusive Sprint Plan
Overland Park, Kan. – Best Buy and Sprint tightened their relationship with the launch of a second pricing plan available exclusively through the national...
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Sprint Expands Direct 2 You Delivery Service
Overland Park, Kansas – Sprint today expanded its Direct 2 You service to the New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Denver metro areas....
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Boost Mobile Prepaid Service Adds Live TV
Overland Park, Kan. — Sprint introduced new features to prepaid plans, unveiling a live TV service for its Boost Mobile prepaid brand and launching...
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T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular Price LG G4
New York – T-Mobile and U.S. Cellular revealed their plans for LG’s flagship G4 smartphone following last week’s announcement by Sprint. The phone was...
CES-2016
Sprint Launching LG G4 On June 5
Overland Park, Kansas – Carriers have begun announcing their rollout plans for LG’s flagship G4, with Sprint planning June 5 availability through all distribution...
Industry
Sprint Steps Up Changes With New CMO
Overland Park, Kansas – Sprint tapped Kevin Crull, a 30-year marketing and operations veteran with years of video-content experience, as its new chief marketing...
CES-2016
Sprint Rolling Out LG Stylo With Stylus
Overland Park, Kan. — Sprint is bringing the 5.7-inch LG G Stylo to market with prepaid Boost Mobile and Sprint Prepaid service, as well...
Financial
Sprint: Total Q4 Wireless Subs Up, Retail Postpaid Phone Subs Down
Overland Park, Kan. — Sprint gained 1.21 million net new wireless subscribers in its fiscal fourth quarter ending March 31, compared to a year-ago...