Sprint drops subscribers but no layoffs in the mix

Ah Sprint. How I love thee? I wake up to news this morning that Sprint had lost 148,000 net subscribers in the fourth quarter, from 1.27 million a year earlier. The decline in highly valuable contract customers, who generate average monthly revenue of $55, fell by more than half, to 504,000.  Revenues slipped to $32.3 billion last year, though Sprint held the drop to less than 10 percent. But yet in the same breath I read that Sprint is also looking to expand it’s prepaid business. Hit the link for more. Sprint’s CFO Bob Brust said: “As far as we can see, that takes care of that part of our cost reduction program.”

T-Mobile flipping the switch on fiber electrified backhaul 21Mbps HSPA

T-Mobile isn’t wasting any time watching Verizon and AT&T tout their non-existent 4G networks. According to our pals over at Engadget T-Mobile is getting ready to fire up their new 21Mbps HSPA+ network. According to the coverage map above, this means that many Americans will not have the ability to access that beautiful speedway, but for the ones that do, this is a dream made in heaven.

Motorola Devour Android 1.6 hits February 25th

So BGR has come through again with a little scoop. The Motorola Devour will be hitting the indirect distributors on February 25th. All channels are to follow on March 15th with the full launch of the new handset.

Google’s mobile page updated, nicer UI, includes new ‘Buzz’ feature

Mobile pages change all the time and usually go unnoticed. This time I think Google did a pretty stellar job with their new mobile page. It no longer looks like you are viewing it on your Motorola RAZR. The buttons are a little bit bigger and have a blue button aura around them. The new pages can be viewed on any modern Webkit based mobile browser. Screen-shots depicting Google’ s new look after the break.