Eric M. Zeman, PhoneScoop, 2/3/2012

A company called Ting has this week launched its cellular phone service using Sprint’s CDMA and WiMax networks. Ting, which is operated by Tucows, provides inexpensive, no-contract access to mobile services. Potential customers will need to buy a Ting-branded phone from Ting, which range from the Samsung Reclaim for $45 to the Motorola Photon for $545. Phone prices are subsidized only slightly. Voice minutes, messages, and data can be each be ordered separately so that customers get the services they want at the cost they need. Voice plans range from “XS” at $0 per month for zero minutes to “XXL” at $52 per month for 3,000 minutes. Text messaging plans range from $0 to $14 and data plans range from $0 to $60 per month, depending on amounts. Users must pay $6 per handset per month at a bare minimum to keep the service active. The service includes voicemail, picture and video messaging, three-way calling, caller ID, tethering, hotspot at no extra cost. Ting is available anywhere Sprint services is provided.

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Clearwire said WiMax data use by subscribers of Sprint and other partners grew at twice the rate of customer growth

Clearwire exceeded 10 million subscribers in the fourth quarter but still needs to raise more money to build its planned LTE network, a task that could be funded in part by an upcoming $300 million stock offering.

The U.S. WiMax operator, which powers Sprint Nextel’s 4G services, released selected preliminary fourth-quarter results on Tuesday before posting final results in the coming weeks. Wholesale and retail customers reached 10.4 million, most of those from wholesale partners, primarily Sprint.

While Clearwire estimated it had a net gain of 900,000 wholesale customers in the quarter, an 11 percent gain from the third quarter, it said aggregate WiMax network use by wholesale subscribers grew at twice that rate. Heavier data use on smartphones led the trend, with customers using 30 percent more data compared with the previous quarter. In the full year 2011, total data use by wholesale and retail customers grew 165 percent.

Sprint is the only major national carrier still offering unlimited monthly data use on smartphones, without throttling. But like other operators, Sprint continues to look for more capacity to meet continuing rapid growth in demand. It will continue to sell WiMax devices with two-year contracts at least until the end of this year and expects to use Clearwire’s WiMax network at least for the next few years. But both Sprint and Clearwire also plan to build LTE (Long-Term Evolution) networks to further expand their capacity and be able to tap into a large expected market for LTE phones, tablets and other devices.

During the fourth quarter, Clearwire and Sprint announced a long-awaited plan for coordination on LTE, in which Sprint invested more in its partner and said it had deals to buy capacity on Clearwire’s LTE network. Sprint also hopes to use LightSquared’s planned LTE network as part of a complex 15-year plan to host that network on its Network Vision infrastructure, but that partnership is on hold pending regulatory approval for LightSquared’s network. Sprint plans to offer LTE in the first half of this year.

For the fourth quarter, Clearwire estimated it achieved positive adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) for the first time, though including those factors, it expects to post net losses “for the foreseeable future.”

The company estimated it had $1.11 billion in cash and cash equivalents at the end of 2011, up from $711 million at the end of the third quarter. During the quarter, it raised $716 million through the sale of new shares. But the company said it still needs to raise more capital to build its LTE network, which it would operate alongside the WiMax system.

Clearwire also said Tuesday it is planning an offering of first-priority senior secured notes, to be offered by subsidiary Clearwire Communications, to raise $300 million. It did not give a date for the offering. That money could be invested in the future LTE network, company spokesman Mike DiGioia said.

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Sprint to move phones wholesale to 4G and NFC

Sprint in commentary during CES confrimed that it was dropping WiMAX on smartphones. The initial LTE smartphones were ultimately representing a full-scale switch to the technology for 4G phones, PCMag was told. The carrier was being more aggressive than it had suggested before and, when promising LTE in mid-year, had meant between January and June, Owens explained.

Simultaneously, consumer product marketing VP Trevor Van Norman mentioned to Light Reading that the company planned for NFC (near-field communication) to be a standard feature in every smartphone. While there would be some edge case free or low-end phones tat wouldn’t have it, every other smartphone would get it from now onwards.

The planned switch may have given clues as to future iPhone releases. Sprint has committed to a multi-year deal with Apple to carry the iPhone and would have to either make a special exception for a 3G phone or else knows to expect LTE, NFC, or both. Both technologies have usually been left to Android, where Google takes a piece of Google Offers discounts.

Sprint regularly adopts basic technology first. It picked 4G well before other carriers were ready to deploy. Google helped it become the first to ship with a full NFC payment system in place through Google Wallet on the Nexus S 4G and now the Galaxy Nexus.

On Windows Phone, Owens said the HTC Arrive had sold poorly enough to reduce reasons to “jump back into the fire.” A return might come in August or September, although with who wasnt mentioned.

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Apple, Motorola, and three major wireless carriers are the latest to face a class-action lawsuit over a smartphone privacy scandal, with Carrier IQ, HTC, and Samsung also facing allegations that they spy on users with software installed on smartphones. While Carrier IQ makes the software, it is installed on phones manufactured by hardware companies and sold by carriers, providing plenty of targets for lawsuits.

We noted the existence of two class-action lawsuits targeting Carrier IQ, HTC, and Samsung last week. Another was filed in US District Court in Delaware Friday against a bigger roster including Carrier IQ, AT&T, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA, HTC, Apple, Samsung, and Motorola Mobility. Filed on behalf of four plaintiffs who are iPhone, HTC, and Samsung phone users and also customers of AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile, the suit notes that “defendants Samsung, Apple, Motorola, and HTC pre-install Carrier IQ software on cell phones used by its customers on the AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint networks.”

Carrier IQ and its customers say the software only collects diagnostic information to help them improve service, but the lawsuit says that “[i]n addition to collecting device and service-related data, Carrier IQ’s software can collect data about a user’s location, application use, Web browsing habits, videos watched, texts read and even the keys they press.” The suit claims violations of the Federal Wiretap Act, Stored Electronic Communications Act, and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, while demanding monetary compensation as well as a permanent order preventing the defendants “from installing software on cell phones that could track the users’ information in violation of federal law.”

Whether the charges can be proven is unclear. Customers must assent to smartphone privacy agreements that typically allow some sort of data collection, and some security researchers have disputed the claim that Carrier IQ software collects more than is lawful. Carrier IQ has denied any invasion of users’ privacy, while Apple told Ars last week that it used Carrier IQ to record diagnostic information anonymously, and “did not record keystrokes, messages or any personal information for the diagnostic data.” AT&T and Sprint have also told us their use of Carrier IQ software is aimed at gathering information to improve device and network performance, and that they do not collect personal information, like text messages or photos.

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We knew more or less that an announcement of this sort was coming. Back in July, Dan Hesse had teased us face-to-face with the promise of a “great story this fall around 4G,” and now the time to tell that tale has arrived. At its strategy event today, Sprint finally went public with plans to “simplify its network” by converting its 1900MHz holdings and LightSquared’s 1600MHz spectrum (“pending FCC approval”) to LTE, an industry favorite. Helping the operator make that transition is the swath of 800MHz spectrum it reclaimed from the, now defunct, iDEN push-to-talk network — which had been a drain on the company’s resources. This spectrum, acquired from Nextel, will be phased out by mid-2013 and rolled into LTE. The company plans for a rapid deployment of this new 4G network, with the first LTE markets and handsets to hit in mid-2012, and the full rollout mostly completed by 2013. Current subscribers signed up for WiMAX plans won’t have to worry as their devices will continue to be supported throughout 2012.

Beginning tomorrow, Sprint’s consolidating its 4G LTE (including LightSquared), 3G and Direct Connect networks into one single architecture. All the major technical milestones, such as test calls and field integration, have cleared their hurdles and work on over 22,000 cell sites are currently in process. Samsung, Alcatel Lucent and Ericsson have partnered with Sprint to install multimode 3G and 4G base stations to handle the network’s future traffic, essential for deploying the multitude of frequencies required by hosted devices. Prospective iPhone 4S users on the network will be able to take advantage of better signal strength and improved voice service as Sprint intends to also offload the latter onto 800MHz.

Expect a steep “reduction in roaming costs” and deeper signal penetration throughout the operator’s expanding national footprint over the course of the next two years. Naturally, LTE speeds on this new network will be significantly improved over the currently in-use WiMAX, and a planned implementation of WiFi offloading should help to cut congestion by 20 percent. By the end of next year, Sprint aims to have a combined WiMAX/LTE population coverage of 176 million — with 123 million covered by LTE and 76 million overlapping both. When the network build-out is nearly complete in 2013, the company should have over 250 million blanketed in LTE, far outstripping the stagnant 120 million served by WiMAX.

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Ruggedized Kyocera DuraMax will be first phone to support Sprint Direct Connect push-to-talk service

Sprint on Sunday will launch a new rugged wireless phone along with a next-generation push-to-talk service called Sprint Direct Connect that offers speedy data capabilities.

The ruggedized Kyocera DuraMax, which will be available on Sunday for $69.99 with a two year service agreement, is the first Sprint handset to use the new PTT (Push-to-Talk) service.

The DuraMax is designed to be the workhorse for the new Sprint Direct Connect service, which will be supported by two more phones that are slated to ship in the fourth quarter.

The rugged phone set for release next week has a 2-in. display, a 3.2 megapixel camera and is designed to meet high-level military standards for resisting dust, operating at extreme temperature levels, and for vibration and water immersion.

The new upgraded Sprint PTT service will gradually transfer the older Nextel Direct Connect PTT service from the iDEN network to Sprint’s CDMA (Code-Division Multiple Access) network to give faster 3G data speeds to users, generally in the 500 Kbps range. The iDen network has average data throughput speeds of just 20 Kbps to 30 Kbps.

The older iDEN network will be phased out in 2013 as part of Sprint’s plan to consolidate its networks with new equipment that serves multiple radio bands and technologies.

Sprint today said it will assist customers with migration plans to new feature-rich phones, such as the new DuraMax, over Sprint Direct Connect.

Sprint will also sell Nextel Direct Connect phones until iDen is sunseted, a spokesman said via email.

The Sprint Direct Connect coverage area will grow to match Sprint’s CDMA voice coverage area, an increase of almost three times the square miles covered by iDen today, by early 2012, Sprint said.

Also in 2012, an international PTT calling plan will begin rolling out, Sprint said.

Sprint is retaining most of the services familiar to iDen PTT users, such as Direct Connect for instant one-to-one PTT calling nationwide with any other Direct Connect customers. In addition, the newer phones will have high-speed data access, high-resolution cameras and Bluetooth, Sprint said.

PTT calling is mostly used in the services and construction businesses. It’s similar to walkie-talkie communication used in military and emergency responder settings.

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Sue Marek, FierceWireless, 8/11/2011

The third time is not always a charm–at least not when it comes to the cable industry succeeding at selling wireless services. By my count, the cable industry has made at least three attempts over the past two decades to gain a foothold in the wireless industry and build the elusive quad-play offering of cable, wireless, landline and Internet. So far these attempts (including its latest venture reselling Clearwire’s WiMAX service) have met with little success.

Some may think I’m premature to declare Comcast and Time Warner Cable’s participation in Clearwire (NASDAQ:CLWR) a failure (these two companies along with Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S), Google, Intel, Trilogy Equity Partners and Bright House Networks invested $3.2 billion in Clearwire in 2008). But during the company’s recent second quarter earnings call with investors, Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt noted that customer response to the WiMAX service has so far been lackluster. He even hinted that there might not be much of a market for the quadruple-play that the cable providers have been working so hard to provide to customers. Britt also said that while Time Warner Cable isn’t ready to give up on wireless, it probably won’t invest any more money in Clearwire.

Meanwhile, Comcast lost its most vocal supporter of wireless when Dave Williams, formerly the senior vice president of wireless at Comcast, left to join the wireless infrastructure firm Stoke. In an interview with FierceBroadbandWireless, Williams wouldn’t comment on Comcast’s view of the wireless industry, but he did hint that the cable industry is becoming very interested in Wi-Fi.

In addition, Roger Enter of Recon Analysis recently noted in a FierceWireless column that in the second quarter Clearwire announced 1.5 million wholesale net adds while at the same time Sprint Nextel announced it added 1.7 million 4G WiMAX customers. Entner said the  discrepancy indicates that Clearwire’s cable partners have lost 200,000 WiMAX subscribers.

With all these attempts but no clear success, I wonder if the cable industry can succeed at wireless. Jim Barthold, senior analyst with NPD’s Connected Intelligence Group, thinks that the cable companies are intent on offering wireless service but just haven’t given it much of a priority–at least not yet. “I think they have other things they are working on and they are not getting pushed to do wireless,” Barthold said. “When it does become a priority, they will move fast.”

Barthold added that Clearwire’s Aug. 3 announcement that it will deploy LTE-Advanced in addition to its existing WiMAX network may be an indicator that the firm’s cable partners are looking for a more widespread 4G offering.

Cable industry executives have repeatedly said that cable must have a wireless offering if it wants to remain competitive with the telcos. In fact, at the National Cable Show earlier this summer, several cable executives were quoted as saying that wireless must be part of their offering.

Perhaps the answer to cable’s wireless dilemma lies in the vast amount of spectrum some have accumulated. Time Warner Cable and Comcast are both investors in SpectrumCo, which purchased $2.4 billion worth of AWS spectrum licenses during the FCC’s 2006 spectrum auction. Although neither has made an attempt to actually use that spectrum, it certainly could be their next step should they decide to give up on the wholesale game.

Let’s revisit cable’s various wireless attempts:

1994: Sprint, Tele-Communications Inc., Comcast Corp and Cox Cable formed a joint venture in which the companies planned to build a nationwide network to provide wireless, local and long distance phone service and cable TV to consumers. The companies won PCS licenses and built a network. However, in 1998 Sprint assumed control of the business and bought the cable companies’ interest in the company.

2005: Comcast, Cox, Time Warner and Advance/Newhouse formed a joint venture with Sprint Nextel to provide a quad-play cable TV, high-speed data, landline and wireless service to their customers. But the quad-play idea never panned out and Pivot never grew beyond the initial 33 markets Sprint launched in November 2007. Sprint said that Pivot was being hindered by provisioning issues. Time Warner later said that demand for Pivot services was “tepid.” Pivot users eventually were given the option of switching to Sprint’s regular service.

2008: Sprint and Clearwire announced that they would combine their WiMAX businesses and create a new company that would include a $3.2 billion investment from Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Trilogy Equity Partners.  The new company was named Clearwire and Comcast, Time Warner, and Sprint decided to operate as MVNOs selling Clearwire’s WiMAX service. Clearwire announced Aug. 3 that it will deploy TDD-LTE equipment in addition to its WiMAX network but the company admitted it needs $600 million more in capital to do that.

This timeline clearly shows that cable companies have continually underestimated the challenges of delivering wireless services. Recon’s Entner says that that cable companies are experts in bundling different products into packages. They know they need a wireless solution in their portfolio, but have not yet figured out how to do it. If there is a lesson to learn from cable’s tangled history in wireless, it’s that wireless is a complicated business–one that requires commitment and focus. After three attempts and lackluster response, let’s hope that the cable industry is able to learn from its past and make some smart decisions about wireless in the future.

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You’re all aware of the increase in “hacktivism” and malware we’ve been seeing over the past few months, and as it turns out, the carriers are aware of it, too. Just yesterday, Sprint announced the availability of its McAfee security apps for Android, and today AT&T is looping in Juniper Networks for its new mobile security platform.

Though it’s not quite rolled out yet, the first phase of AT&T’s security platform will be the launch of its AT&T Mobile Security app, which will be based on Juniper’s Junos Pulse client. The app won’t launch until later this year. According to the release, the application will help keep both personal and enterprise phones safe by offering control and monitoring of apps and enabling anti-virus and anti-malware on the phone.

The truth of the matter is you can never be too secure when it comes to technology, especially with our banking and personal contact information all stored away in our smartphones. There are already plenty of anti-virus and anti-malware apps available in both the Android Market and the App Store, along with various other application stores, but it’s definitely good to see the carriers get involved.

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AT&T is jumping into the actual 4G game with its first two LTE products.

The Elevate 4G mobile hot-spot devices is one of the first products that will use AT&T’s upcoming 4G LTE network. (Credit: AT&T)

The telecommunications giant plans to show off a laptop card called the USBConnect Momentum 4G and a mobile hot-spot device called the Elevate 4G–the first two devices that are compatible with its upcoming next-generation wireless network. The two products will be on display at an annual company showcase later today.

The two devices shouldn’t be confused with AT&T phones and products that currently carry the 4G tag. The two new products will be compatible with a flavor of 4G called Long-Term Evolution, which also powers the network that Verizon Wireless has been tirelessly touting in recent months.

AT&T has previously said that LTE theoretically is more than three times faster than its current “4G network” and 10 times faster than 3G. The company hasn’t disclosed actual comparisons.

AT&T, which plans to launch its 4G LTE network this summer in five cities and in 15 cities by year’s end, is racing to catch up to Verizon and Sprint Nextel in the 4G game. In January, AT&T followed T-Mobile USA’s footsteps and rebranded an upgraded variant of its 3G network, called HSPA+, with the 4G title, allowing it to continue boasting of the country’s fastest nationwide network.

The USBConnect Momentum 4G, the first laptop card compatible with AT&T’s upcoming 4G LTE network. (Credit: AT&T)

But AT&T is far behind Verizon when it comes to the deployment of 4G LTE. Verizon’s LTE network is in 77 metropolitan areas now, with plans to cover 175 markets by the end of the year. Sprint, meanwhile, is in 71 markets with its WiMax variant of 4G, although its expansion has stalled because of financing problems with partner and network operator Clearwire.

AT&T argues that the HSPA+ variant of 4G, which is available in 80 percent of the country, allows for a more smooth transition when moving between networks.

“Our customers will have the benefit of access to both our LTE network and our HSPA+ network,” Jeff Bradley, senior vice president of devices for AT&T, said in an e-mail. “This will provide a much more compelling and consistent speed experience as customers travel across our network.”

The company also argues that in some cases, its version of 4G is just as fast as Sprint’s WiMax. However, AT&T has moved up the timetable for its 4G LTE deployment, underscoring the importance of keeping pace with the competition. When launching a new network, laptop cards are typically the first product out of the gate. More recently, mobile hot-spot devices, which use the cellular network to generate a small but portable Wi-Fi hot spot for other devices, have become an increasingly popular way to introduce a new network.

For AT&T, the Momentum and Elevate are a good start. The Momentum laptop card will sell for $49.99 with a two-year contract. The device has a slot for a MicroSD card that can hold up to 32GB of data. It weighs 1.06 ounces.

The Elevate hot-spot device will cost $69.99 with a two-year contract. It has a color 1.77-inch LCD display that shows the Wi-Fi network name and security key. It weighs 3.6 ounces and can be used for up to five hours and connect up to five devices. Like the Momentum, it has a slot to allow for a 32GB memory card.

Dallas-based AT&T declined to comment on when the products will be available, adding only that they will sell with the launch of the 4G LTE network, which hasn’t been specified yet. The company is also still working on the data plan prices for the devices.

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News that the HTC EVO 3D had the ability to remove pre-installed apps hit the wires yesterday to much fanfare and appreciation from users and press alike. We reached out to Sprint to get more clarification on the topic and found out that it was in fact intentional, and that we could be seeing more of this in the future.

Bloatware, as pre-installed software has been affectionately termed, has become a bit of a plague on modern smartphones (especially Android), as carriers use it to offset the cost of devices by using it as another revenue stream. Pre-installed apps take up space in the phone’s storage and get in the way of other apps as they clog up application trays with unnecessary icons. Many users find the software to be of little to no use, and very often these permanent icons are just links to download the software from an application store. Verizon Wireless and AT&T are notorious for this practice (I’m looking at you CityID), though we have heard from sources that AT&T is looking to cut back on the pre-installed apps on its future devices.

Sprint has gone the other direction entirely, allowing users to remove the pre-installed apps and replace them with apps of their own choosing. The EVO 3D does not come with a relatively high number of carrier-loaded apps to begin with, but the few that are there can be selectively removed by the end-user (with the exception of Sprint ID). Sprint says that it intentionally did this in response to consumer feedback, and that it looks to continue the practice in the future, though there is no policy on the matter at this point in time. Sprint is the only carrier that we are aware of (in the U.S. at least) that allows users to uninstall apps that come loaded on an Android smartphone. Of course Apple does not allow carriers to load such apps on the iPhone at all, and Windows Phone has always limited the number of pre-installed carrier apps while also allowing them to be removed by the user.

We, as reviewers and users alike, look forward to seeing more of this in the future, and as more and more users catch on and realize that carrier apps often do not provide much value, hopefully other carriers will hear the cries as well. For now though, it looks like Sprint might be your best option to get an Android smartphone sans bloatware.

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