Gustav Iden won the Ironman Kona World Championship in a course record time, becoming the second consecutive Norwegian to win the men’s world title and the first to do so in Kona. Iden, 26, clocked an ...

Sprint pulled all iDEN phones from its stores shelves last year, and has been warning of the impending shutdown since 2010. The carrier has been pushing its CDMA Direct Connect network as the ...

Most iDEN handsets are built to withstand rougher treatment than your average cell phone, but the venerable network itself will finally bite the dust within the next few years. As part of a plan to ...

At 12:01am US/EDT yesterday, Sprint turned off the iDEN network nationally. With the iDEN network shut down, the next step for Sprint is to reuse the iDEN spectrum for 3G/4G services. Sprint's ...

Sprint Nextel has created a map showing where and when it plans to reduce its legacy iDEN network capacity, which is set to start shutting down in mid-2012. Sprint Nextel has created a map showing ...

The approval for 3G/4G over iDEN spectrum from the FCC last week was the last step needed for Sprint to begin shutdown of Nextel's iDEN network. Now, Sprint has announced it will be shut down within a ...

Sprint Nextel is considering a sale of the Nextel wireless network it bought in 2005, but may have trouble finding a buyer for an asset whose value has plunged about 80 percent to an estimated $5 ...

In the wee hours of Sunday morning, Sprint Nextel will give its iDEN push-to-talk network the final push—over the edge. After more than a year of warnings, the Nextel network will be decommissioned ...

After years of hinting iDEN was on its way out, Sprint finally announced today that it would end Nextel's IDEN network for push-to-talk service by 2013. Kent was a senior managing editor at CNET News.