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Here's a pretty straightforward article on the court ruling. Basically, the court found that android's search box infringes on Apple's patent on universal search. Obviously, Samsung will appeal this ruling and that may delay the injunction a while. http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/29/3126934/apple-samsung-judge-bans-galaxy-nexus

I've thought this as well. The Gov't doesn't want the #1 or #2 player gobbling the #3 or #4 player. But the if #3 & #4 came together to form a competitor that go toe-to-toe with the two bigs, that would probably pass. It's really more a matter of the finances. Could Sprint work out a financing scheme to buy out Tmo from DK? Or would it have to be DK ponying up to buy up Sprint? That's for all the fancy MBAs and lawyers to figure out.

Flash needs to die. I Personally I hope they leave it out. If android doesn't support it going forward, that'll be the final nail. Sent from my Acer A200 using Forum Runner

This is bubbling up again? I thought the last attempt because the price got too high. I still think a merger wouldn't pass this soon after the att failure. A network sharing deal still seems like the better alternative. Sent from my Acer A200 using Forum Runner

Or maybe he just got a better offer. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/former-t-mobile-usa-ceo-defects-to-rival-vodafone-group/81191?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ZDNetBlogs+%28ZDNet+All+Blogs%29

I guess his turnaround efforts were not good enough. That and the failed ATT merger meant his time was up.

We have our answer. http://finance.yahoo...-160000613.html Started another thread announcing launch. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/1350-sprint-announces-lte-launched/

Here's the 4g LTE news of the day! http://finance.yahoo...-160000613.html Atlanta Dallas Kansas City San Antonio Houston LTE goes live on July 15.

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I follow a Sprint PR person on Twitter. Her twitter handle is @heatherwong. She posted this earlier today on twitter. Sounds intriguing. Are we going to hear LTE cities finally announced?

If you need a volunteer, I'll be listening and updating a thread on the forum anyway. Just like the I did for the 1st quarter announcement.

Sprint will release its 2nd quarter financial results on July 26. The results will be released at 7am EDT on Sprint's web site followed by an earnings call at 8am. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sprint-nextel-schedules-second-quarter-150000257.html

Ericsson manages the day-to-day running of the network. They have for about 3 or 4 years now. Plus they manage numerous cell networks around the world. Kind of surprising if Ericsson is the hiccup here.

Saw this little article this afternoon trying to give some explanation as to why Sprint's stock slid $0.20/share today. Tiny bit of insight. Sounds like Ericsson is having issues handling the LTE deployment. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-25/sprint-declines-amid-concern-over-expansion-of-faster-network.html?cmpid=yhoo

Here are the details: http://allthingsd.com/20120625/verizon-and-t-mobile-to-swap-some-spectrum-if-cable-deal-goes-through/?reflink=ATD_yahoo_ticker Official Press Release: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/verizon-wireless-t-mobile-usa-130000552.html One thing not clear is if this AWS spectrum is the same as what VZW had said they would divest in order to gain approval.

So far it's paying off. You're up over 25%. We'll see how sprint finishes the week.

Thought this might have been posted earlier, but here you are. Sprint has filed papers with FCC detailing condition it believes should be imposed on the pending deal between VZ and the big cable companies. No a lot of new info, but at least one nugget I found interesting. At various points I've read stories about Sprint workiing on a wifi offload strategy, but no details were ever released. Now there's news. It looks like Sprint was trying to work out a wifi roaming deal with the cable companies to use their new shared wifi network for Sprint customers. The negotiations were stopped once VZ got into the act. Sprint's saying that there have been no negotiations since then. Interesting. I wonder what plan B is if they can't get any of these restrictions imposed on the deal? http://www.lightread...&site=lr_cable

Since it's apparently a .1 upgrade, it must be a lot more refinements than new features. That hopefully means not too much work is required to update existing devices. Although if you now own a shiny new Samsung phone you shouldn't count on seeing jelly bean until next year, when key lime pie(?) is released.

Bumping this thread back up since Sprint's shares are now trading at around $3.18. That's up about 11% from the start of the 2nd qtr. If you bought in at the low of $2.34 you'd be up 35.9% Anybody glad they bought share when they did?

That's the headline of this story. Sprint had a meeting with some local media types in Houston and that was the vibe being given out. http://blog.chron.co...+-+Full+Text%29 All general talk. No specifics given.

Have you seen info that Sprint is in fact trying to work out a deal with Dish? I know that's been perennial rumor since Dish said they were going to launch wireless services.

They didn't want to be responsible for clearwire's debt load. They had they're own finances to worry about. That's why they dropped their voting power to less than 50%. They were worried if clear wire defaulted they would be forced to take over repayment. Sent from my Acer A200 using Forum Runner