"We are well-positioned to take advantage of new technology, chipsets, devices and applications, " said Sprint CEO Dan Hesse.
Under the terms of the deal, Dan Hesse is to stay in his job as chief executive of Sprint.
Sprint also prefers to keep its pricing plans drop-dead simple, as Chief Executive Dan Hesse told Forbes in 2008.
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Sprint CEO Dan Hesse will keep his job, and appeared with Son to announce the deal in Japan earlier today.
Sprint Chief Executive Dan Hesse warned of shortages, and indeed there were many stores left with only a handful of Pre phones.
Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse says the company is not planning to make an offer for the rest of Clearwire, Bloomberg reports.
Son must have no illusions with regard to Sprint management based on a prior poor experience with Dan Hesse in a company called Terabeam.
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Management led by Dan Hesse and CFO Joe Euteneur appeared at their long postponed analyst day in New York singing some variation on that tune.
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"Sprint is proud to provide advanced wireless network services that will allow ECOtality to monitor and manage their Blink Network, " said Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint.
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The carrier launched the phone at a flashy New York-based event on Monday night that included an appearance by magician David Blaine and remarks from Chief Executive Dan Hesse.
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The number of new Sprint customers was the lowest for any quarter since 2009, and suggests that CEO Dan Hesse's carefully engineered turnaround of the company is on shaky ground.
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse triggered a rally in the wireless telco sector after he declared at a Goldman Sachs conference today that the industry is headed for a period of consolidation.
Even though the ever clever Sprint CEO Dan Hesse believed on some level that Son really wanted Sprint, what Son was really after was the gigantic 2.5 GHz bandwidth that Clearwire controls.
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Sprint CEO Dan Hesse is pressing all parties to wrap up discussions in time for the wireless industry's trade show next week in Las Vegas, so Sprint can have something to present to investors.
"iPhone 5 is packed with amazing new features and we are proud to offer Truly Unlimited data to iPhone customers so they can enjoy everything iPhone 5 has to offer on our 4G LTE network, " said Sprint CEO Dan Hesse.
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"If you think about a dial-up connection to the Internet and I was to get a very big file -- a huge file -- something that normally would take me on a dial-up connection 10 hours to download, I would download using this at one second, " explains Terabeam CEO Dan Hesse.
Sprint's riffed about the possibility of migrating to LTE in the past -- as has its 4G partner, Clearwire -- so it's no big surprise to hear CEO Dan Hesse tell the Financial Times today that he's still open to the idea down the road, possibly side-by-side with the company's existing WiMAX deployment thanks to its deep spectrum holdings.
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