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How To Break A Contact Without Paying Fees

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 06.01.2012

Want to cancel your gym membership in favor of outdoor exercise this summer? Beware the cancellation fees. A key part of customer retention strategy, ...

Sprint To Pull Plug On 2G Network

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 05.30.2012

NEW YORK (AP) — Sprint Nextel Corp. on Tuesday said it will shut down the Nextel network as early as June 30 next year, cutting off service for its ...

Who Will Win the Battle for the Mobile Wallet?

Brett King | Posted 05.22.2012

Brett King

Over the next five years paying with your phone will become as commonplace as paying with cash, which is why every man, his bank and his phone company are in the battle to win the mobile wallet space. So who's going to win?

And America's Most Satisfying Phone Company Is...

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 05.15.2012

NEW YORK -- Improvements in customer satisfaction at Sprint Nextel Corp. and AT&T Inc. have narrowed differences among the Big 4 wireless carriers to ...

Sprint CEO Slashes His Salary Over 'Investment With Apple'

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 05.10.2012

NEW YORK (AP) — Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse on Friday said he's cutting his 2012 pay by $3.25 million after shareholder complaints about how his 201...

Sprint Makes Big Promise On Unlimited Data For iPhone

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 04.25.2012

Sprint-subscribed iPhone users, rejoice! According to CNET, Sprint Nextel will continue to offer an unlimited data plan for the next iPhone -- whet...

Customers Flee From Nextel As Shutdown Looms

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 04.25.2012

NEW YORK — The iPhone boosted struggling Sprint Nextel Corp. in the latest quarter, letting it beat AT&T and perhaps even Verizon in recruiting ...

Shocked By Your Wireless Bill? Here's Some Good News

The Huffington Post | Emily Cohn | Posted 04.20.2012

Have you ever been shocked by a sudden increase in your cell phone bill? One in six of us have, according to the Federal Communications Commission. ...

Sprint Sued For Alleged Tax Fraud

Reuters | Posted 04.20.2012

By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) - The state of New York on Thursday sued Sprint Nextel Corp for more than $300 million, accusing the compan...

Jason Gilbert

More Ice Cream Sandwich Updates Roll Out (And More Delayed, Too)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Gilbert | Posted 04.07.2012

Here's some more news on the never-ending Ice Cream Sandwich update front for those still waiting. First, Sprint has confirmed that the Nexus S -- ...

These Are The Prices AT&T, Verizon And Sprint Charge For Cellphone Wiretaps

Forbes | Posted 04.04.2012

If Americans aren’t disturbed by phone carriers’ practices of handing over cell phone users’ personal data to law enforcement en masse–in many...

Woman Denies Buying Hundreds Of Dollars Worth Of Pay-Per-View Porn

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.02.2012

Porn on the cable bill can be embarrassing enough, but imagine being forced to pay up for lewd movies you didn't even watch. That's exactly what V...

Math Prof Predicts How Fast Usain Bolt Could Run

Reuters | Kate Kelland | Posted 05.29.2012

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Usain Bolt, already the world's fastest man, could lop another 0.18 seconds off his 100 meter sprint...

Bankruptcy Risk?

Reuters | Posted 05.19.2012

(Reuters) - Shares in Sprint Nextel fell 4.5 percent on Monday after an analyst report said there is an increasing risk that the No. 3 U.S. mobile pro...

Sprint Will Return $65 Million To Struggling Startup

AP | Posted 05.16.2012

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Wireless carrier Sprint Nextel Corp. ended its spectrum hosting agreement with start-up LightSquared, whose network looks...

All 4G Sprint Phones Now 1 Penny

The Huffington Post | Jason Gilbert | Posted 03.12.2012

Amazon Wireless has launched another of its "smartphones for a penny" deals, and this time around its sale is all about Sprint. All of Sprint's 4G ...

Catherine New

More Smartphones, More Money

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 03.02.2012

Just last year my 70+ year old mother asked me to help her program the VCR. Then in February she bought an iPhone. I knew change was afoot. Like thos...

Loren Berlin

Sprint Customer: 'This Is Draconian'

HuffingtonPost.com | Loren Berlin | Posted 03.01.2012

Alina Simone, 37, is so traumatized by her fights with Sprint, her cell phone carrier, that she sometimes ignores mail from the company. "I am afr...

Sprint To Raise $2 Billion

Reuters | Posted 04.28.2012

(Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp <S.N> plans to raise $2 billion in debt in a private transaction, the company said on Monday. Spri...

Sprint Loses $1.3 Billion

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 04.09.2012

NEW YORK (AP) — Sprint dug deep into its pockets in the latest quarter to put iPhones in the hands of its customers. The perennially money-losing co...

Sprint Eliminates 4 Top Execs

Reuters | Carey Gillam | Posted 03.07.2012

* Alves to head consumer as well as business sales * Bowman, Johnson, Carney, Rogers leaving * Other changes expected in...

The Top 10 Ways Mobile Carriers Tried to Screw Us in 2011

Josh Levy | Posted 02.15.2012

Josh Levy

AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon do so many bad, annoying and anti-consumer things that it's almost impossible to document it all.

What's Next For Sprint's High-Speed Network

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 01.31.2012

NEW YORK — Sprint is mending fences with independent subsidiary Clearwire, pledging to use the data network it's planning to build out and to pa...

Unlimited Data Facing The Axe

Posted 11.26.2011

By Sinead Carew NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel may be forced to abandon the biggest advantage it has over its rivals - unlimited data service...

Sprint Ending Unlimited Data For Some

The Huffington Post | Jason O. Gilbert | Posted 12.21.2011

Sprint has announced that they are ending their much-ballyhooed, much-advertised unlimited data plans -- but not for smartphone users. The company...