Sprint’s real fantasy: Firefighters achieving interoperability

By Sarah Laskow

In one of its new commercials, Sprint Nextel cheekily imagines how firefighters might use the company’s new walkie-talkies to run Congress.

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Interoperability: A priority for Homeland Security?

By Sarah Laskow

First responders still can’t communicate

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Ready, fire aim? Public broadband grants wait for no plan

By John Dunbar

Let The Battle Continue

By Josh Israel

Excerpts from this story referencing "Sprint Nextel":

"… equipment in a tornado-response simulation. …"

Prepaid profit plan for wireless companies

By Morgan Jindrich

Top firms have banked $629 million for service not yet offered

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Charities supporting AT&T’s buyout of T-Mobile have financial incentive

By Jason McLure

More cities offering wireless Internet access

By David Baumgarten

Telecom chief could face conflict issues

By Kristen Dorsey

Bells vs. AT&T

By Daniel Lathrop

More cities offering wireless Internet access

By David Baumgarten

Bells call it unfair competition

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Center's suit to get broadband data draws industry interest, comment

By Drew Clark

New FCC chairman had big telephone player as a major client

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Charities supporting AT&T’s buyout of T-Mobile have financial incentive

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Networks of influence

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Charities supporting AT&T’s buyout of T-Mobile have financial incentive

By Jason McLure

Charities that received big dollars from AT&T supporting phone giant's buyout of T-Mobile

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As FCC Chair Martin resigns, he leaves controversial legacy

By John Dunbar

As FCC Chair Martin resigns, he leaves controversial legacy

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More cities offering wireless Internet access

By David Baumgarten

Excerpts from this story referencing "Sprint Nextel":

"… pressed by the Justice Department. The FCC review of the merger is ongoing.Sprint Nextel Corp., the third-largest carrier with about 12 percent of the market, has …"

FCC sends wireless broadband firm LightSquared back to square one

By Corbin Hiar and Fred Schulte

Well-connected wireless broadband firm suffers severe setback

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The FCC's rapidly revolving door

By John Dunbar

Big payday for U.S. ambassador with stake in go-go wireless Internet firm

By John Aloysius Farrell and Fred Schulte

A penchant for secrecy

By John Dunbar

Surveillance requests to cellphone carriers surge

By The Associated Press

Police agencies made 1.3 million surveillance requests to US cellphone carriers in 2011

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Fighting crime with computers in Minnesota

By G.W. Schulz

Murdoch’s News Corp lobbied on privacy issues as hacking controversy bubbled

By Josh Israel and Aaron Mehta

Prepaid profit plan for wireless companies

By Morgan Jindrich

DNA testing of detained immigrants easier said than done

By Ben Protess and Emily Witt