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Sprint Nextel is transferring the day-to-day operations and maintenance of its networks — along with 6,000 Sprint employees and up to $5 billion — to a Swedish telecom company.
What Luke Soules did with his brand-new Palm Pre, and what he does routinely with new cell phones, laptops and other digital devices, is called a “teardown” — a trend growing among geeks.
The U.S. census is wrapping up preparations for making next year’s count, which will use a communications network and support provided by Sprint Nextel. Sprint was picked in 2006 by Harris Corp., the systems integrator for the census, to be the exclusive wireless data provider and to provide both wireline and wireless support.
Sprint Nextel has joined forces with several public interest groups and other businesses against special access rates. The NoChokePoints coalition, announced Monday in Washington, D.C., is going after rates charged by local telephone companies like Verizon and AT&T for access to broadband lines.