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...we’re going to need the dog for a special halftime finale.”They led the mascot in on-field circles by his hula-hoop leash before breaking for the Harvard student section, where they were received like royalty. A fan photo of the sprint to freedom later circulated, and Tim particularly loves how it “captures the Yale fans.“Most of them are still applauding wildly, with no idea of what’s going on,” he explains. “But there...
...More importantly, even though the phone physically uses the Sprint network, GreatCall is the operator. If you buy your mother this phone, you won?t get free in-network calling from your carrier, not just Verizon, T-Mobile and Cingular, but even Sprint. The clear message here is that these phones aren?t for gabbers?they?re for people who are worried that their parents don?t have any means to communicate, in case of emergency or just in case. I just don?t know how many people would entrust their elderly parents? safety to a cell-phone carrier that...
...monopoly Deutsche Telekom took a leap of faith across the Atlantic and bought an upstart U.S. mobile-phone company called VoiceStream Wireless for $46.5 billion. Telekom's management was excoriated for paying an exorbitant price for the smallest operator in a crowded market, dwarfed by giants Cingular, Verizon and Sprint. But the bet paid off. Today, the U.S. arm of T-Mobile, the German mother ship's wireless unit, is still ranked fourth, but it is the fastest-growing part of the $75 billion company and well on its way to becoming Telekom's largest revenue source. In the first...
...Since it's a Cingular device, it uses GSM and its relevant data networks, the low bandwidth GPRS and the tolerably fast EDGE. EDGE isn't as fast as the "broadband"EVDO used by Verizon Wireless and Sprint, nor is it as fast as Cingular's own high-speed data network, but operating on a slower network has the benefit of power efficiency. In the day and a half since I last charged its battery, after plenty of e-mails and some light calling, it hasn't dropped a bar's worth of juice...
...emcee—Danielle Thiriot ’07—put it, “The men’s event is the distance event. It’s all about pacing yourself and finishing the whole dozen. The women’s event is the finale; the sprint, how quickly can you stuff your face.” And stuff they did. The men’s champion said he was drawn to the grueling—and drooling—sport because “I’m a big eater anyway, so I thought...