In the past couple of weeks, Sprint has introduced two ground breaking products - the MiFi personal hotspot and the Palm Pre. There's no question that each of these products is exciting and each advances the Mobility Revolution. My question is, which do you think is the most revolutionary? As a Sprint executive who speaks at conferences, I occasionally get to borrow some...read more
Verizon recently introduced a femtocell product that is strikingly similar to Sprint's Airave, introduced many months ago . Meanwhile, rumors are that AT&T is close to launching their femtocell product. What's not to like about awesome wireless coverage at home? Apparently, the pricing - that's what. Many commentators are taking all three carriers to task for...read more
Last week at CES, Palm introduced a new mobile operating system and the first device to use that OS. According to Palm's CEO, Ed Colligan, WebOS has been designed from the ground up to support developers . However, it was the user experience that seemed to excite so many. The software supports all of the cool features in the latest hot smartphones (multitouch,...read more
As you might guess, I love wireless technology. So, come Christmas time, it's time for me to give and to get cool new wireless technologies. In years past, my favorite gifts have included watches that receive a signal from the atomic clock, (even an ultra-geeky Microsoft SPOT watch one year), <a href="...read more
This past week, Sprint held it's annual Application Developers Conference. Unsurprisingly, a key focus of the event was <a href=" http://www.internetnews.com/mobility/article.php/3790081/Sprint Takes to the Open Mobile Road.htm" target="_blank">openness - from the launch of Titan , to a keynote address by Google Android's Rich Miner . (Make sure to tune in...read more
Earlier this year , Sprint announced a huge (and complex) deal to merge our Xohm WiMax business with Clearwire. The new company would receive $3.2B in funding from strategic investors including Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks. On Friday, the deal was completed. The company has also announced that their Mobile WiMax services will be...read more
I serve on Sprint's Executive Steering Committee for Corporate Social Responsibility . Today, we had one of our regularly scheduled committee meetings and I must say I'm really impressed with everything that this company is doing to make the world a better place. Consider just some of our activities around the environment: Sprint has made a significant commitment to...read more
Last week I was in Dallas with one of our sales teams. RIM was also in the meeting, providing an update on the device roadmap. Everyone was pretty excited about the new Blackberry Curve for the iDEN network. Why were we excited? True, it's a long overdue update to the iDEN Blackberry portfolio, but the big buzz was about WiFi. What's so special about WiFi? ...read more
On Friday, Sprint announced third quarter financial results. We are pleased with our customer satisfaction improvements, churn improvements, positive free cash flow, and the improved position of our debt obligations. However, media reports generally did not focus on those items. Instead, headlines announced either our loss of customers or our financial operating loss...read more
I'm a long time Windows Mobile user. In fact, I switched from the Palm Pilot to the Palm PC , back with Windows CE was in its infancy. I made a brief return to the Palm OS when I came to work at Sprint and our Windows portfolio was nascent to say the least. But once the PPC6600 became available, followed by the PPC6700 , I was back in the Windows Mobile fold. But...read more
