Meer: NTP Sues Verizon, AT&T, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Slashdot | 2007-09-13 05:10:17
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that following in the wake of their patent suit against Research in Motion (RIM), NTP has filed suit against Verizon, AT&T, Sprint Nextel, and T-Mobile for infringing on several patents. All of the patents in question relate to the delivery of email on mobile devices. "Five of the eight patents being used in the telco cases were the subject of NTP's 2001 patent suit against Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry. In November 2002, a jury found that RIM infringed upon NTP's patents. The case continued to make headlines until 2006, when RIM agreed to pay NTP a settlement of $612.5 million, nearly four years after RIM had first been found guilty of infringing on NTP's patents."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Meer: Sprint-Nextel Q2 Profits Beat Expectations | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Neowin.net | 2007-08-09 07:45:10
Wireless provider Sprint Nextel Corp. on Wednesday said second-quarter profits dropped sharply on takeover costs and expenses tied to its planned rollout of a WiMax network. The Reston, Virginia-based company, with operational headquarters in Overland Park, Kansas, said it earned $19 million, or 1 cent per share, during the three months ending June 30, compared with $370 million, or 10 cents per share, during the same period a year ago. And although profits are down sharply, the company said it earned 25 cents per share, still managing to beat the 22 cents per share prediction of analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial. However, revenue during the quarter rose only about 2 percent, from $10 billion to $10.16 billion, missing Wall Street's estimate of $10.2 billion.The company, which has struggled to keep up with rivals AT&T and Verizon Wireless, said it increased its subscriber base during the quarter by 400,000, up to 54 million customers. Wholesale channels contributed 155,000 new subscribers while affiliates generated 33,000 new subscribers. During the same quarter, AT&T added 1.5 million customers while Verizon Wireless added 1.6 million customers, but lost 300,000 through the bankruptcy of Amp'd Mobile. Read full story...
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Meer: Sprint Nextel Vs. 41 Schools and Non-Profits | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Slashdot | 2007-05-08 04:30:45
netbuzz writes "A case of corporate bullying, or good network citizenship? Sprint Nextel has let slip the dogs of law on the FCC and 41 non-profits, most of them school systems, in an effort to get the FCC to stop granting these organizations special dispensation when they fail to renew their wireless spectrum licenses. These licenses were granted as part of the Educational Broadband Service. The school systems, many of them rural, argue that they don't have the staff or the resources to keep on top of the paperwork and shouldn't be punished for such bureaucratic lapses. (Some generate revenue by leasing unused portions of the spectrum to carriers such as Sprint Nextel.) The schools' argument may sound a bit like 'the dog ate my homework' to some, and Sprint Nextel makes a fairly compelling case that a greater good would be served if the FCC would stop enabling such tardiness."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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