reuters.com - 5/4/2009
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Sinead Carew NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp posted a surprise quarterly profit excluding items, thanks to cost cuts and strong growth in a new service where customers pay for calls in advance, sending its shares up 12 percent. However, the No. 3 U.S. mobile service suffered its worst ...
digitaldaily.allthingsd.com - 5/1/2009
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digitaldaily.allthingsd.com —
Here’s the flip side of reports that Palm
plans to deliberately keep supplies of the Pre artificially...
low to foster the perception of a shortage and spur demand: There will be a shortage, but it won’t be deliberate or artificial. Collins Stewart ...
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Analyst: “The Pre Is DOA”
insidesprintnow.wordpress.com - 4/28/2009
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insidesprintnow.wordpress.com —
Due to all the fuss about having to
swap to a new plan (for some) in order...
to activate a Pre, here’s a breakdown of the plans it can be activated on - both with the standard price AND the price with a NVP/Employer discount. As posted before, anyone ...
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Inside Sprint Now
sprintgurus.com - 5/4/2009
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sprintgurus.com —
Well, we all know that 6-7-09 is an
interesting date across the Internet for people waiting for...
the release of something that is one of the most anticipated phones in a while. How about a teaser. Soon you will get to know the P100 a lot better. What ...
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Waiting for 6-7? Here are some details I can confirm - ...
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Sprint reports $594M worth of red ink, loses 1.25M customers
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
As the world waits for the Palm Pre to rejuvenate Palm and reinvigorate Sprint (NYSE: S)’s shrinking US wireless network, the No. 3 US wireless network is struggling to hold on to their most valuable market-segment - the post-paid wireless subscriber. Rival carriers have been pulling customers away with high-profile smartphones like the Verizon (NYSE: VZ) BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Storm and AT&T (NYSE: T) iPhone 3G, leading to a $594 million net loss for the first quarter of 2009.
The red ink-stained financial report confirms another bad quarter for Big Yellow. Sprint lost 1.25 million post-paid subscribers in Q1 2009, ...
Sprint- Adding New Pre-Paid Customers, Losing Contract Customers
jkOnTheRun —
The financial woes at Sprint continue as evidenced by the quarterly results recently announced. Sprint was able to add 764,000 prepaid customers during the quarter but saw another 1.25 million subscribers, the lifeblood for any carrier, removed from the books. Sprint posted a net loss of $594 million and blame their continuing problems on the weak economy.
It is apparent that Sprint is going to lean just as heavily as Palm on the release of the Palm Pre smartphone to stop the downspin. They’d better hurry up and get that sucker released is all I can say.
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse hinted at the possibility that they are considering letting a third party take ...
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