Sprint is trying to convince investors that it really could be the comeback story of the year -- next year. Or maybe the year after.
Once again, there are rumblings that the third- and fourth-largest U.S. wireless carriers may merge to form a larger combined No. 3. But would this be enough to keep the U.S. wireless market competitive for consumers?
How's the broadband access in your community -- or perhaps in other places where you'd like to live, work or send your kids to school?
A Democratic plan to build a nationwide, interoperable broadband network is essential to public safety, according to members of a panel testifying at a Senate committee hearing who are calling for a new model for wireless communications.
If you've followed broadband discussions in Washington, DC, then you've heard that wireless is the future of communications.
When President Obama announced his vision for a national wireless initiative last week, he emphasized how widespread high-speed wireless broadband would boost the economy and increase opportunities for individual Americans.
You've seen the 4G advertisements from T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon, bragging about a much-better wireless network with blazing fast speeds.
Clearwire on Monday unveiled "Rover," a pay-as-you-go 4G network that it hopes will attract new users to its flailing and unprofitable mobile broadband service.
If your smartphone seems more like a slowphone, hang in there. The next generation of wireless technologies, known as 4G, promises blazing-fast data transmission speeds.
Verizon Wireless could make good on its promise to get 4G wireless broadband to rural America.
To no one's surprise, Sprint kicked off CTIA 2010 here by announcing its first 4G phone.
The 4G revolution in wireless won't just make Web surfing on your mobile phone faster; it could help you say good-bye to traditional cable and DSL broadband.
Despite claims from mobile phone carriers, the next generation of mobile technology, or 4G, will only be slightly faster than current 3G speeds, at least initially.
There's been a lot of talk in 2009 about the next generation of wireless technology, known as 4G wireless broadband, but the current generation of 3G wireless technology is far from dead.
Sprint is betting the farm on the WiMax standard. The U.S. mobile phone carrier's customers are melting away. Yet it has scrimped on cellular network capex to double down on wireless broadband. Putting another $1 billion into cash-burning partner Clearwire, while a rival technology is catching up, amounts to a binary bet for shareholders.
Verizon Communications has had a change of heart about using Wi-Fi to extend its wireless broadband offering as the company announces free access to Wi-Fi hot spots for its Fios and DSL Internet customers.
Verizon Wireless will start selling Netbook computers from Hewlett-Packard starting May 17, the company said in a statement released Thursday.
I'm zipping through the streets of Portland, Ore., in a Lincoln Navigator while a "Knight Rider" episode streams over the Internet to a screen mounted to the car's dashboard.
Move over, Korea and Japan. Australia may soon be the envy of the world when it comes to advanced wireless networks and services.
Fortune: WiMax: Not dead yetupdated: Fri Dec 19 2008 08:21:00
For the last couple years, depending on who you asked, WiMax was either bound for spectacular success or it was dead on arrival.
The announcement of the departures of Chairman Serge Tchuruk and Chief Executive Patricia Russo came as the world's largest fixed and mobile telecom gear maker reported its sixth consecutive quarter of losses
Colorful earbuds have become increasingly popular with headphone manufacturers, possibly because of consumer demand for something a bit more stylish than plain white or black.
Just over a year after Apple birthed the first iPhone, the long-awaited, next-generation iPhone 3G has arrived bearing a mildly tweaked design and a load of new features.
Review: Forget the rocky launch. Once you get the iPhone 3G up and running, it lives up to expectations
The new Apple iPhone went on sale Friday morning, but early reports of software problems overshadowed the debut of the faster, cheaper device.
Almost one year after the original Apple iPhone went on sale, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has announced a 3G version of the device, finally putting to rest months of rumors and speculation.
Apple announced on Monday a much faster iPhone that's half the price of the current model.
The iPhone 3G is cheaper, faster and better. It's also one of the riskiest business moves Apple has ever made
AT&T Inc.'s profits for the next two years will take a hit as it subsidizes the new low price of the latest iPhones, the company said Monday
Steve Jobs unveils Apple's latest incarnation of its revolutionary device, with a fanfare that seems justified
Just minutes before Verizon Wireless formally announced it would acquire rival Alltel for $28 billion, Vodafone Chief Executive Arun Sarin told Fortune that he liked the growth prospects of a Verizon-Alltel deal.
Time Warner is dangling an eye-popping $10.9 billion gift to shareholders as part of its spinoff of Time Warner Cable. But it's a gift that will keep on taking in the form of $10 billion in additional debt and a heavy financing burden shifted to the cable unit.
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