Designed to operate in fog, heavy weather conditions and 5ft (1.5m) waves, the launch has a sprint speed of 20 knots (23mph) and includes a depth sounder and radar.
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If call reliability is paramount, stick with Verizon, and if you want to use a lot of data but don't care about speed, go with Sprint.
For instance, Sprint delivered a market-best average download speed of 4.6 Mbps in WiMAX-enabled Kansas City, while recording a noticeably slow 0.5 Mbps in non-WiMAX Buffalo.
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Do the right thing for America-let dollars sprint from old assets to new ones at the speed of light. n Bill Gates, chairman and CEO of Microsoft: Don't let the bozos get you down. n Jim Barksdale, CEO of Netscape: Be kind to yourself in your Mississippi retirement years.
Sigman 's Cingular, the biggest U.S. wireless firm, was first in the U.S. to sell popular phones such as Motorola's Razr, it's lagging rivals such as Verizon Communications and Sprint Nextel in its plans to build its high-speed network.
Sprint today announced that four more cities will soon experience the speed and power of the all-new 4G LTE network.
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The high-speed wireless carrier, which is majority-owned by Sprint, continues to lose oodles of money.
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Sprint and Verizon are both pushing phones that can use high-speed 4G wireless data connections.
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Until Sprint deploys LTE in the Bay Area we're stuck doing speed tests on CDMA, which means peaks of 2.3 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up with full signal.
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Naturally, change within any industry takes time, but now that Sprint is in a position to offer unlimited data at a meaningful speed and T-Mobile has climbed aboard the bandwagon, Verizon may have to change its tune if a significant number of consumers decide that unlimited isn't dead after all.
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Both options won't offer premium features such as WiFi tethering and Sprint Navigation, but Sprint says customers will see neither hide nor hair of data caps or speed throttling.
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And yesterday, in an attempt to claw back ground from Verizon Communication's joint wireless venture with Vodafone and Sprint Nextel, Cingular yesterday launched BroadbandConnect--its own high-speed wireless Internet service--in 16 markets.
The company and analysts say the drop in data speed won't be as noticeable as a network switch on Verizon or Sprint.
The merged company--to be called Sprint Nextel --promises to mesh the best elements of each company, including Nextel's (nasdaq: NXTL - news - people ) push-to-talk technology and strong corporate customer base, and Sprint's (nyse: FON - news - people ) high-speed data network.
Sprint has started to offer Samsung's Instinct, which seeks to trump the iPhone with a higher download speed, better video, picture messaging, navigation and applications, plus a battery that can be removed.
Sprint, which originally was supposed to use a standard called EV-DV for their next-generation high-speed wireless network, have made an about face and now say they're going to use EV-DO instead.
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