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Sprint Nextel is expected to reward long-suffering investors with its first quarterly subscriber growth in more than three years, but the celebration may be short-lived.

Sprint Nextel is expected to reward long-suffering investors with its first quarterly subscriber growth in more than three years, but the celebration may be short-lived.

In terms of unlimited data plans, Sprint is way ahead of other carriers. Presently, Sprint Everything Data plan, with free calls to any mobile phone with unlimited data comes to $79.99 for a month whereas Verizon Wireless offers unlimited at $119.98 and T-Mobile offers $99.99 a month. But AT&T doesn’t offer any unlimited data plan.

Sprint Nextel Corp plans to raise service fees by $10 a month for smartphone customers, bringing its prices closer to those of bigger rivals Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc.

Sprint Nextel Corp plans to increase monthly service fees by $10 a month for smartphone customers, edging its prices closer to those of bigger rivals Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc.

Company announces a $10 activation fee for new smartphones.

Company commits to connected cars working with various partners through the M2M initiative.

Sprint Nextel thinks it can make billions of dollars in revenue from wirelessly connecting devices such as in-car safety systems, but does not expect any material gains from doing this for two more years.

Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile have their own share of 4G smartphones ready for release. Verizon has announced its 4G smartphone HTC Thunderbolt, the successor of Droid Incredible and Motorola Droid Bionic 4G, while Sprint showcased their HTC EVO Shift and T-Mobile had their share with Motorola Cliq 2, the successor of the Cliq XT which was launched last year. Also AT&T will get HTC Inspire 4G and Motorola ATRIX 4G.

Microsoft Corp sold more than 8 million of its Xbox Kinect motion-sensing game system in its first 60 days since launch, outpacing its target of 5 million and outshining Sony Corp's competing Move.

BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion (RIM) is launching a 4G version of its popular PlayBook tablet this summer with wireless carrier Sprint Nextel. RIM is decidedly focused on taking the intriguing tablet war to the tent of Apple CEO Steve Jobs who had lampooned the RIM tablet earlier, saying it will be dead on arrival.

Auriga's previous valuation model had suggested that Sprint’s spectrum was worth $7 billion based on older auction sales of spectrum by the U.S. Government, while the updated model suggests a valuation closer to $9 billion.

Sprint has added the HTC EVO Shift to its lineup, priced at $149, the cheapest smartphone to date.

Wirlesss carrier Sprint has unveiled a new 4G-enabled smartphone HTC Evo Shift priced at $149.99, which will be available starting Jan. 9.

Sprint Nextel Corp , the majority owner of Clearwire Corp , can cut its voting rights in Clearwire without reducing its economic interest in a move to help Sprint avoid liquidity risks if Clearwire ever runs out of cash.

Sprint Nextel Corp plans to expand its tablet computer portfolio in 2011 to court business customers looking to replace expensive laptop computers with the lower cost devices, according to a top executive for the No. 3 U.S. mobile operator.

DBSD North America, a satellite communications company, had its bankruptcy plan rejected by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which said the plan violated accepted law. The plan was sent back to the lower court for further proceedings.

Sprint Nextel promised to save up to $11 billion in the next seven years from a big network restructuring that involves eventually getting rid of the iDen network it bought from Nextel in 2005.

Sprint Nextel has signed a technology deal costing up to $5 billion with Alcatel-Lucent , Ericsson and Samsung <005930.KS> as it phases out an older network and looks to cut costs and pave the way toward easier future technology upgrades.

Swedish group Ericsson has won a five-year deal to supply technology and services to U.S. No. 3 mobile company Sprint Nextel for an unspecified sum.

Sprint Nextel has signed a technology deal worth up to $5 billion with Alcatel-Lucent , Ericsson and Samsung <005930.KS> to pave the way toward easier future upgrades and cut costs.

Clearwire Corp expects to snag another round of funding late this year or early 2011 and may raise as much as $2 billion from selling wireless spectrum, according to its finance chief Erik Prusch.

Clearwire Communications has priced $1.325 billion in debt, with a possibility of raising an additional $760 million.

Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless carrier, is set to unveil details about its plan to launch its LTE 4G wireless networks in the United States.

With Verizon set to roll out their 4G network, AT&T touts recent study proclaiming its network to be the best.

Navigation technology company TeleNav Inc warned that a contract renegotiation with its largest customer could lead to a fall in revenue, sending its shares down 16 percent in extended trade.

Sprint Nextel Corp said it lost fewer valuable contract customers in the second quarter than analysts expected, helped by its most advanced smartphone, the EVO from HTC Corp .

Sprint Nextel said it had lost fewer monthly contract customers in the second quarter than analysts had expected, helped by its high-speed EVO phone from HTC Corp .

Sprint Nextel Corp has been seeing shortages of its EVO high-speed phone from HTC Corp in some places due to better-than-expected demand, the company's chief executive, Dan Hesse, said on Tuesday.