Some head-to-head contests are close matches, and some are blowouts. Sprint’s win in the MPLS services category of the Nemertes 2009 Pilothouse Awards was a blowout. And we haven’t stopped smiling since the results were announced. More...

Stop by and say hello if you’re in Orlando next week (October 19-22), attending the Gartner IT Expo. We’ll have plenty of hands on deck (booth #508) to illustrate how Sprint’s IP Convergence and Mobility solutions can help you stay productive while you’re wandering the show floor, including demonstrations of devices such as the new HTC Hero, MiFi 2200 and the Cradlepoint MBR-1000. You’ll also see a demo of our Mobile Integration capabilities, illustrating how Sprint enables UC. More...

Most of us are very familiar with the large global brands – companies we see everyday on main street, television and those annoying pop-up’s on the net. These companies have massive global operations and significant telecommunications and IT requirements. Many global telecommunications carriers, including Sprint, target these companies as prized customers to serve them with their global telecommunications needs. More...

Doing a roundup of media reviews of any high-tech device is usually a mixed bag. Professional reviewers—bloggers, media types, etc—see it as part of their mission to be critical. So even the best devices are going to be hammered at times.

So far, though, the HTC Hero is bucking that trend. Reviews were almost unanimously positive about Sprint’s latest smart phone featuring the Android operating system. Even the toughest critics—like the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg—are impressed by the new smart device, which was introduced Oct. 11. More...

On November 9th, the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Let’s look astoundingly at how our world has changed since 1989. We are communicating in ways never before imagined. To experience this in our lifetime is remarkable. To think about bandwidth and network requirements to meet our insatiable demand for voice, data, video, and the web, is mind-boggling. Remarkably, as far as these technologies advance us, some parts of the world still face hurdles to be a part of this communication phenomenon. More...

Maybe you saw that little news item about the 40th anniversary of the first Internet message. Actually, partial message. Someone in the fall of 1969 was trying to use the then-newborn network to access a remote computer, and started typing “login.” The letters L and O were transmitted, but at that point the remote computer crashed. Not the blue-screen-of-death … but the early-Internet equivalent. More...

On Tuesday, September 15, I will give the keynote address at Frost & Sullivan’s Growth, Innovation, and Leadership conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. As a preview, I thought I’d share the high level outline for my talk and point you to additional resources behind the topics I’m covering (try clicking on the links throughout this piece). More...

As an IT guy, I’m surrounded by electronics: computers, servers, mobile devices, phones, and monitors, printers and more. And at home I have even more electronics: PCs, TVs, radios, MP3 players, DVD players, DVRs, and too many other gadgets to mention.More...

Most mid-sized to larger organizations, according to one recent survey, will be moving to cloud computing the next couple of years. Keeping the “trust but verify” philosophy in mind, these companies say they will start with their non-mission-critical applications…and expand once they’ve proven it works.More...

Paget L. Alves is the President of the Business Markets Group (BMG) for Sprint Nextel and responsible for Sprint's sales and marketing to enterprise, general business and public sector customers, and oversees the development of strategic alliances for Sprint. The BMG's portfolio of services includes IP, international wireless and wireline and domestic 3G and 4G wireless. With more than 20 years of experience with technology companies, he has experienced a fair share of business cycles.

In the first of a Q&A series, he discusses some of Sprint’s challenges and opportunities in the current economic climate, and how the company is positioning for the changing environment. He also discusses key factors shaping the telecom industry and challenges enterprises and government agencies face in making the move to a new world of IP Convergence and Unified Communications. More...