Marking a first-of-its-kind offering from a national U.S. carrier, Sprint (NYSE:S) today announced the availability of Sprint to Home(SM) and Sprint Mobile to Office(SM). These wireless service features allow customers to make or receive unlimited voice calls between their Sprint wireless phone and a pre-designated ten-digit home or office number while on the Nationwide Sprint PCS Network or National Nextel Network, regardless of their wireline carrier, without deducting minutes from their wireless service plans.
"Sprint is the only national carrier to offer its customers the unique convergence and flexible features found in Sprint to Home and Sprint Mobile to Office," said Tony Krueck, vice president, product development and management, for Sprint. "With these options, busy families and mobile professionals alike can experience a new level of convenience and affordability with their communications."
Consumers
Sprint to Home will allow Sprint wireless subscribers to get unlimited calling to and from their home phone regardless of their local provider. For just $5 per month, customers can stay connected with their families without using any of the minutes in their wireless service plans. The home number provided must be a residential landline number. To sign up, customers can visit a Sprint retail store or call 888-823-4666.
Coming soon, Sprint will also offer Sprint to Home with Long Distance(SM), a free offer for customers who subscribe to both Sprint wireless services and long distance services
Businesses
Sprint Mobile to Office provides unlimited voice calls to a pre-identified landline business phone number. Business customers with a monthly wireless service plan of $49.99 or greater can select the Sprint Mobile to Office option for $8 per month, ensuring that the workplace can be extended beyond a traditional office for increased productivity. Sprint Mobile to Office is a valuable option for those companies with a remote sales or field service force or for those with a high level of telecommuting and traveling employees who need to stay connected to a key resource. To sign up, customers can contact their local Sprint Sales Representative, visit a Sprint or Nextel retailer or call 888-703-9514.
Sprint plans to expand the value of this offer later this year to allow business customers to pre-identify a range of landline numbers - up to 30,000 DIDs - that can be called without pulling from the subscriber's bucket of anytime minutes.
Sprint is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying state-of-the-art network technologies, including two robust wireless networks offering reliable, seamless and superior service to its customers and the United States' first nationwide-all-digital, fiber-optic network and an award-winning Tier 1 Internet backbone. These new offers demonstrate Sprint's leadership in providing services that make communication reliable, flexible and affordable. Sprint was the first to offer a nationwide Service Level Agreement to business customers on its wireless voice and data services and was the first to offer consumers wireless voice calling plans with no huge overage charges by introducing Sprint Fair & Flexible(R) plans.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Friday, March 03, 2006
2005 A Good Year for DSL Providers
A new report from Leichtman Research Group says that 2005 was a record year for the twenty largest U.S. cable and DSL providers—making up 94 percent of the market—who together signed on a net of more than 9.6 million new subscribers.
According to the report, that exceeds 2004’s record by more than 1 million subscribers.
Price competition among DSL subscribers helped grow that segment of the market especially, the report says.
The top DSL providers during 2005 were: SBC, Verizon, Bell South, Qwest, Sprint, Covad, ALLTEL, Century Tel, and Cincinnati Bell.
Those providers netted 53 percent of broadband additions during 2005, adding over 5.2 million subscribers to their rolls.
Additionally, “The fourth quarter of 2005 was the best quarter ever for DSL providers, adding nearly 1.5 million net additional DSL subscribers, capturing 57 percent of the net 2.64 million high-speed Internet additions for the quarter. Cable operators added virtually the same number of subscribers during the quarter as a year ago, while DSL providers added about 350,000 more subscribers than in the fourth quarter of 2004,” the report said.
According to the report, that exceeds 2004’s record by more than 1 million subscribers.
Price competition among DSL subscribers helped grow that segment of the market especially, the report says.
The top DSL providers during 2005 were: SBC, Verizon, Bell South, Qwest, Sprint, Covad, ALLTEL, Century Tel, and Cincinnati Bell.
Those providers netted 53 percent of broadband additions during 2005, adding over 5.2 million subscribers to their rolls.
Additionally, “The fourth quarter of 2005 was the best quarter ever for DSL providers, adding nearly 1.5 million net additional DSL subscribers, capturing 57 percent of the net 2.64 million high-speed Internet additions for the quarter. Cable operators added virtually the same number of subscribers during the quarter as a year ago, while DSL providers added about 350,000 more subscribers than in the fourth quarter of 2004,” the report said.
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Sprint Awarded Contract Modification to Enhance Federal Government Wireline and Wireless Service Offerings
Sprint (NYSE:S) announced today that government agenciesnow have more choice and flexibility for their security, messaging anddata communications needs through Sprint's FTS2001 contract.
The General Services Administration (GSA) awarded Sprint amodification to enhance Sprint's FTS2001 contract effective Dec. 23,2005, to include:
-- Multi-Protocol Labeling Switching (MPLS) Virtual Private Network (VPN) Over Peerless Internet Protocol (PIP) - a network-based solution over a peerless IP backbone that is segregated from the public Internet
-- GoodLink - a secure, FIPS-certified wireless messaging and data access system
"In today's increasingly fast-paced, security-focused world,Sprint is dedicated to providing U.S. government agencies with accessto secure, reliable communications when they need it, wherever theyneed it," said Tony D'Agata, vice president of federal government forSprint. "These enhancements provide a tangible, affordable way forfederal agencies to keep connected in a secure manner in order toperform their jobs and meet their critical requirements."
Sprint's Peerless IP Network is a network-based solution that issecure, scalable and cost effective. Sprint offers government agenciesunique solutions over its Peerless IP network, leveraging the sametechnical architecture as the industry-leading SprintLink IP backbonewhile removing connectivity to the public Internet. The service isavailable throughout the continental United States at T1 through OC-12speeds.
"Many agencies that have been concerned about IP securitypreviously had taken advantage of our Peerless IP through GSA'scustomized modification process," D'Agata added. "This blanketmodification process to the FTS2001 will hopefully facilitatetransition to the Networx contract should we be successful."
GoodLink provides secure mobile access to agency e-mail,attachments, calendars, contacts, notes and tasks. Goodlink alsooffers continuous two-way real time synchronization to ensure thatchanges on handheld devices are automatically synchronized with auser's desktop and vice versa. GoodLink currently supports the Palm(R)Treo and Microsoft Windows Mobile Pocket PCs. The service offersend-to-end encryption, remote handheld erase, Advanced EncryptionStandard (AES), Triple-Data Encryption Standard (DES) encryption withVeriSign(R) security and Federal Information Processing Standards(FIPS) 140-2 certification.
In addition, Sprint's FTS2001 contract modification provides lowerservice initiation charges for some existing wireless access devicesand defines service initiation charges for new forms of wirelessaccess devices.
Sprint was awarded the FTS2001 contract in 1998. The GSA FederalTechnology Service (FTS) contract offers federal agencies wireline andwireless communications services from Sprint, including voice, dataand video, at a competitive price to help provide faster, more secure,collaborative communications between agencies, with businesses andwith consumers.
About Sprint Nextel
Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless andwireline communications services to consumer, business and governmentcustomers. Sprint Nextel is widely recognized for developing,engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including tworobust wireless networks offering industry leading mobile dataservices; instant national and international walkie-talkiecapabilities; and an award-winning and global Tier 1 Internetbackbone.
The General Services Administration (GSA) awarded Sprint amodification to enhance Sprint's FTS2001 contract effective Dec. 23,2005, to include:
-- Multi-Protocol Labeling Switching (MPLS) Virtual Private Network (VPN) Over Peerless Internet Protocol (PIP) - a network-based solution over a peerless IP backbone that is segregated from the public Internet
-- GoodLink - a secure, FIPS-certified wireless messaging and data access system
"In today's increasingly fast-paced, security-focused world,Sprint is dedicated to providing U.S. government agencies with accessto secure, reliable communications when they need it, wherever theyneed it," said Tony D'Agata, vice president of federal government forSprint. "These enhancements provide a tangible, affordable way forfederal agencies to keep connected in a secure manner in order toperform their jobs and meet their critical requirements."
Sprint's Peerless IP Network is a network-based solution that issecure, scalable and cost effective. Sprint offers government agenciesunique solutions over its Peerless IP network, leveraging the sametechnical architecture as the industry-leading SprintLink IP backbonewhile removing connectivity to the public Internet. The service isavailable throughout the continental United States at T1 through OC-12speeds.
"Many agencies that have been concerned about IP securitypreviously had taken advantage of our Peerless IP through GSA'scustomized modification process," D'Agata added. "This blanketmodification process to the FTS2001 will hopefully facilitatetransition to the Networx contract should we be successful."
GoodLink provides secure mobile access to agency e-mail,attachments, calendars, contacts, notes and tasks. Goodlink alsooffers continuous two-way real time synchronization to ensure thatchanges on handheld devices are automatically synchronized with auser's desktop and vice versa. GoodLink currently supports the Palm(R)Treo and Microsoft Windows Mobile Pocket PCs. The service offersend-to-end encryption, remote handheld erase, Advanced EncryptionStandard (AES), Triple-Data Encryption Standard (DES) encryption withVeriSign(R) security and Federal Information Processing Standards(FIPS) 140-2 certification.
In addition, Sprint's FTS2001 contract modification provides lowerservice initiation charges for some existing wireless access devicesand defines service initiation charges for new forms of wirelessaccess devices.
Sprint was awarded the FTS2001 contract in 1998. The GSA FederalTechnology Service (FTS) contract offers federal agencies wireline andwireless communications services from Sprint, including voice, dataand video, at a competitive price to help provide faster, more secure,collaborative communications between agencies, with businesses andwith consumers.
About Sprint Nextel
Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless andwireline communications services to consumer, business and governmentcustomers. Sprint Nextel is widely recognized for developing,engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including tworobust wireless networks offering industry leading mobile dataservices; instant national and international walkie-talkiecapabilities; and an award-winning and global Tier 1 Internetbackbone.
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