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Cullen Jones, right, embraced Josh Schneider after beating him by four- hundredths of a second. The 2008 gold medalist Cullen Jones beat Josh Schneider in a 50-meter freestyle sprint for a spot on the United States national team. Sprint is offering up to $175 to customers who switch from other wireless carriers. As you can see from the above image, the destruction and slow reconstruction of AT&T is quite a story. With the T-Mobile merger currently being debated by Congress, potentially adding another chapter to the saga, we thought it might be a good idea to look at the genesis of AT&T Mobility as it stands today. It all started back in 2001 with AT&T Wireless… AT&T got its start in wireless communications when it purchased the Washington-based company McCaw Cellular in 1994. With a subscriber base just north of 2 million users, AT&T had officially thrown its hat into the cellular arena. The company continued to grow and collect end-users, and in 1997 — with current Sprint CEO Dan Hesse as its AT&T will pay T-Mobile $3 billion in cash, a $1 billion roaming agreement, and $2 billion in spectrum if the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice reject AT&T's proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile. The agreement's 15% breakup fee would shatter global records, Reuters said, noting that the 7.7% breakup cash agreement is already high. On Wednesday, AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson met with the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss the acquisition. AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson has argued that there's already plenty of competition in the U.S. wireless market and that the deal will actually create jobs. Similarly, the Communications Workers of America backs the deal and believes it will be a "victory for broadband proponents. AT&T's competition isn't Francisco Ventoso of Spain fended off several rivals in a mass sprint to win Thursday's sixth stage of the Giro d'Italia, while Pieter Weening of the Netherlands retained the leader's pink jersey. The trend noticed over the last 30 days shows the analysts' positive bias in Sprint's estimate revisions for the upcoming quarter and two fiscal years. Francisco Ventoso of Spain got the part of the race he'd been targeting when he edged Italian specialist Alessandro Petacchi in a sprint finish to win the sixth stage of the Giro d'Italia on Thursday. AT&T may soon join Sprint and T-Mobile as the third U.S. carrier to offer the Nexus S. The phone was spotted in white on Samsung's website with AT&T listed as its carrier, although Samsung appears to have removed the page. We suspect AT&T will tag the Nexus S with HSPA+ support and slap a 4G at the end of its name, although the website doesn't confirm whether it will launch as a 3G or a 4G device. The Nexus S is powered by Google's latest Android Gingerbread operating system and will receive future Android updates ahead of other devices. It's equipped with a 4-inch 800 x 480 resolution display, a 5-megapixel camera, a front-facing VGA camera, and a 1GHz Cortex Speaking of smear campaigns, a new Sprint promotion specifically targets T-Mobile CL customers that may be uneasy about the proposed merger, according to a new report. According to a purported internal document, Sprint is trying to lure customers away by offering to pay their T-Mobile early termination fees up to $175 per line if they switch to Sprint. "Do you have the feeling the AT&T/T-Mobile won't end with a 'Happily Ever After?'," the document asks Sprint distribution partners. "Well, we've got a deal specifically for those T-Mobile CL customers having similar concerns." To sweeten the deal and alleviate any worries for potential T-Mobile defectors, Sprint will also waive subscribers' ETF fees if the AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile is not approved and they choose Ready to beat the Sprint Cup lines, then you won't want to miss our 2011 Sprint Cup picks from our expert NASCAR handicappers at Bankroll Sports! Clearwire's stock price is sinking like a stone in the market open after Intel -- one of the mobile-Internet company's investors -- said it plans to cut its stake. Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity. Dale Earnhardt Jr. apologized to members of his pit crew for his costly mistake during Saturday's Sprint Cup race at Darlington Speedway. Extraction of the Sprint Fidelis lead (Medtronic) can be safely performed in an experienced large volume center, according to research presented at the 2011 Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) conference in San Francisco last week. The Sprint Fidelis lead has been associated with increased failure rate which resulted in the lead being removed from the market in 2007. However, even if the lead does not fail, physicians are tasked with the decision as to whether or not to prophylactically remove the Sprint Fidelis leads, explained the study's lead author Raed H... Climbers love the mountains. Time trialists savor one-day tests of strength and speed. General classification contenders cherish the challenge of a multi- day stage race. And then there are the sprinters, the cyclists... FedEx 400 Benefiting Autism Speaks Dover International Speedway Dover, Del. When: Sunday, 1 p.m. TV/Radio: Fox/WNPV (1440-AM) Race course: 1-mile oval
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