Sprint's Common Cents Mobile Expands to 500 More Stores

Sprint has expanded the availability of its Common Cents pre-paid service to another 500 Wal-Mart stores across the U.S., boosting its presence to 1,250 stores total. Common Cents, which Sprint launched in May, is a low-cost pre-paid service that charges 7 cents per minute or 7 cents per text. Twenty dollar refill cards are good for 30 days of service and a $30 card is good for 60 days of ...
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Shipments of Bluetooth, NFC, UWB, 802.15.4 and Wi-Fi ICs to increase 20 percent in 2010

The market for short range wireless ICs is forecast to expand this year; total shipments of Bluetooth, NFC, UWB, 802.15.4 and Wi-Fi ICs will increase approximately 20 percent compared to 2009.
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Sprint scales up Partner Interexchange Network with its termination-only service

Sprint Wholesale's (NYSE: S ) Partner Interexchange Network (PIN), a service that provides business-to-business wholesale exchange of voice traffic to any kind of service provider (MSOs, ILECs, CLECs, etc), has been quite a hit after being initially launched last October . Since Sprint began passing PIN traffic in April, the PIN partner base has grown to 67 million telephone numbers, a figure ...
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BlackBerry users relieved

BlackBerry users heaved a sigh of relief yesterday after the government gave the company a two-month reprieve on a threat to ban its messaging services, averting a showdown over security access.
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