FCC Chairman Ajit Pai made a statement (PDF) in which he approved of the merger between T-Mobile and Sprint. In the statement, he says his approval came after the two companies made some commitments regarding their 5G network. FCC Office of Commissioner Brendan Carr also made a statement (PDF) approving the merger. VentureBeat provided a good summary of what commitments
Sprint has announced two innovative new products. One is a standards-based 5G Samsung smartphone expected to launch in the summer of 2019. The other is a new Magic Box product called Sprint TREBL. It won the 2019 CES Innovation Award in the Smart Home product category. Sprint confirmed plans for an innovative, standards-based 5G smartphone expected to launch in summer
The Pokémon GO Team at Niantic has announced that they are working with Sprint. This collaboration makes Sprint the first U.S. Partner of Pokémon GO. Niantic and Sprint are working together to create a special Pokémon GO experience at over 10,500 Sprint locations around the United States. It is scheduled to begin on December 12, 2016. As part of this collaboration,
Since the mass adoption of the cell phone happened starting in the 1990’s, like everyone else I’ve gone through a long succession of cell phones. My very first cell phone was a Motorola bag phone. Remember those? Analog cell phones could sound surprisingly good. Of course, in fringe reception areas, the sound quality would often become quite crackly and was
When I got my first cell phone in 1995, I opted for a plan that included a whopping 60 minutes of monthly airtime. Back then, cell phones were still looked at as "emergency contact devices" by most people. But much has changed in the last two decades. Today, cell phones are ubiquitous and there's an expectation that we can use
Sprint is about to release something that could make life a little easier for people who do a lot of traveling. It will also help families who are in the United States and who make calls to family members who are traveling. Sprint is going to update Sprint Spark and add international Wi-Fi calling (to certain locations) at no additional
Last fall I got a Samsung Galaxy S3 phone. I love the S3. It's an awesome piece of technology. Sometime overnight a couple of evenings ago, it developed a hardware problem and the next day it would no longer boot. It was working perfectly when I went to bed, but when I woke up something had gone wrong. So, I