Sprint Opens Faster Network to Mogul Cell Phone
In its continuing effort to stem the exodus of subscribers to competing mobile phone service and data providers, Sprint Nextel is providing an upgrade to one of its handsets to allow access to a faster upload and download network called EV-DO Rev. A.
Sprint is the first of the mobile providers to allows a phone to utilize this particular network, which should double download speeds and increase upload speeds by eight times. The phone, called Mogul (Product Specs) and made by Taiwanese handset company HTC, can be upgraded by going to the HTC Web site.
EV-DO Rev. A, which stands for Evolution-Data Optimized Revision A, is also used by Verizon Wireless but so far only for its data cards, which are inserted into laptop computers to allow Internet access while travelling anywhere within the wireless coverage area. As for right now, Verizon says it will not make any of its phones EV-DO Rev. A capable, instead saying its laptop subscribers are the only customers who really need the faster upload and download speeds for e-mail and file transfer. Whether the carrier changes its approach following the Sprint announcement remains to be seen.
To date, Sprint's phones have been able to access only the older and slower EV-DO Rev. 0.
Sprint is trying several new initiatives in an attempt to stop its subscribers from leaving. Just last month, the troubled company announced a $99 unlimited service plan. Sprint lost $29.5 billion during the last fiscal quarter, due in large part to the ungainly integration of Nextel as well as to the hemorrhaging of subscribers, who have complained of terrible customer service and problems with dropped calls.
AT&T has several phone models available that can connect to its high-speed network, called HSDPA, which stands for High-Speed Downlink Packet Access. It has similar upload and download speeds at EV-DO Rev A.
From AOL Money & Finance.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Charles Stusek said 8:26PM on 5-31-2008
This phone has a lot of great features which work well . The use of the phone as a phone sucks. The phone locks up frequently. There is no notice that it is locking up and sometimes the only way you find out is when you answer a call and hear nothing. Sometimes the key pad locks up. I find that it locks up at least once a day. The blue tooth on this phone(which is a replacement for another Mogul does not allow me to use my contacts list on my car phone.
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