The Seamless Enterprise

Watch Dan Jacobson’s interview with Eric Krapf, VoiceCon program co-chair, at VoiceCon Orlando today.

Eric Krapf, VoiceCon Program Co-Chair, interviews Dan Jacobson of Sprint at VoiceCon Orlando 2010

Anyone who doubts Sprint’s 4G prospects should take note of the recent results from its Business Markets Group (BMG), which fueled Sprint’s impressive quarterly financial results last week.

Big business market customer wins helped drive this strong performance. These include a slew of high-profile organizations such as PETCO Animal Supplies and a number of new and renewed federal agency contracts worth more than $500 million. The result: Sprint achieved the best sequential and year-over-year improvement in net postpaid subscriber results in its history. (more…)

The short answer is an emphatic YES.

RIM is getting back to its roots after straying off the path with the Blackberry Storm for Verizon. It’s not that the Storm performed poorly for RIM – clearly, they sold a lot of units. But the buzz and user experience fell short of the Pearl & Curve.

Before the arrival of the iPhone, you would have found the Pearl & Curve models at the top of anyone’s favorite smartphone/PDA list. Even today they probably still rank among the top five. (more…)

With the release of Palm Pre last week I was all set to write my obligatory Pre review full of deserved flowery expressions and general fanboy gushing, but realized so many have already gone before me that it may be worth taking a quick scan of Internet reviews to find the best quotes about Palm Pre.  My focus was on the usual blogosphere technophile suspects to see what they had to say about Pre.  Let’s start with Messrs. Mossberg and Pogue.

The Wall Street Journal readers know well the sage and semi-technical advice that Walt Mossberg dishes out daily.  In his recent review of Palm Pre on June 4, 2009, Mr. Mossberg offers several scintillating gems, (more…)

I was recently asked by a Sprint customer, who was under pressure by his boss, who was questioning him about staying with Sprint.  The contract was up for renewal in a few months, and while they were apparently pleased with our MPLS services, his boss was asking some fair questions—particularly, given all of the noise out there regarding Sprint.

It is always great to hear directly from our customers, and even better to know you are getting the right kind of experience from Sprint; but we also understand that when an IT Manager decides to purchase from Sprint they are putting their own credibility on the line.  With that in mind, I have expanded my original answer to provide a more comprehensive, realistic  view of the Sprint world  (vs what you may have heard about in the news media or through competitors ) . (more…)