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Greg Bensinger, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on April 6 at 10:18 am PT
Over the next few weeks, Sprint Nextel Corp. plans to introduce two smartphones with the tantalizing promise of super-fast speeds on the carrier’s 4G LTE network. One problem: These phones are most likely to reach the promised top speeds in just one town: Kankakee, Ill.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 8 at 4:33 am PT
Sprint said it added 1.6 million customers in the quarter, including 500,000 Sprint-brand contract customers.
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Greg Bensinger, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on January 2 at 4:15 am PT
Sprint Nextel Corp. said Sunday it gave billionaire Philip Falcone’s LightSquared Inc. wireless venture a 30-day extension to a Dec. 31 deadline to get Federal Communications Commission clearance to operate its network.
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Greg Bensinger, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on October 13, 2011 at 2:55 pm PT
Clearwire Corp. Thursday reported better-than-expected customer and revenue growth for the third quarter, and a prepaid wireless carrier said it is considering a deal to buy wholesale capacity on the company’s fourth-generation wireless network.
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Greg Bensinger, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on October 10, 2011 at 2:46 pm PT
Sprint Nextel Corp. shares fell Monday to their lowest level since February 2009 on continued concerns about the costs from rolling out a fourth-generation wireless network and selling Apple Inc. iPhones.
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Greg Bensinger, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on August 25, 2011 at 1:01 pm PT
Samsung Electronics Co. will introduce its Galaxy S II smartphone next week — considered its best shot at cutting into the iPhone’s market-share dominance — but the company will have to do it without the biggest U.S. wireless carrier: Verizon Wireless.
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Greg Bensinger, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on August 12, 2011 at 1:16 pm PT
Sprint Nextel Corp. has abandoned plans to sell a version of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet that runs on its high-speed network, citing a lack of demand from business customers.