New Carrier Defense Mobile To Offer Sprint CDMA and LTE to Active Duty Forces, Reserves, and Veterans
The US military has taken the time and energy to provide soldiers with smartphones on the battlefield, but what about the precious time that soldiers are off of the battlefield? Who’s providing cellular service for their personal lives?
A new carrier, Defense Mobile, aims at filling that need by teaming up with Sprint to provide service for active-duty forces, reserves and veterans. The provider will offer plans at enlisted rank budgets, ranging from $20 for the basics to $60 for a family plan. The company has already confirmed handsets like the Samsung Galaxy S 4, HTC One and the iPhone 5.
Defense Mobile hopes to go live in 2014 with branding and apps to coincide with each specific military branch. The full press release follows below.
DEFENSE MOBILE CORPORATION SIGNS PARTNERSHIP WITH SPRINT EMERGING & WHOLESALE SOLUTIONS
EARLIER THIS WEEK, SPRINT EMERGING & WHOLESALE SOLUTIONS HOSTED MEMBERS OF THE DEFENSE MOBILE CORPORATION (DMC) TEAM IN OVERLAND PARK, KS TO CELEBRATE THE BEGINNING STAGES OF A NEW OFFER FROM DMC, COMING IN 2014.
Clockwise from left are Karen Freitag, Gordon Simonson, Erin Ostler and Dina Marie Andrews of Sprint and Andrew and Brendan Reilly of DMC
Overland Park, KS (PRWEB) August 06, 2013
Driven by the goal to do more for the men and women who have served this country, Defense Mobile Corporation is launching a new nationwide wireless service on the Sprint 4G LTE network, with a unique mobile affinity platform, integrated mobile banking, and a set of community-focused mobile applications. When it launches in 2014, the service will be available to active-duty officers and enlisted personnel of the U.S. military, including those serving or honorably discharged from the Selected Reserve and federally recognized National Guard components of the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. Cadets/midshipmen at the U.S. service academies and families of active duty U.S military and veterans are also eligible.
Sprint is a company proud to support and employ veterans and active duty military. Today, Sprint has 44 employees deployed and approximately 1,500 Sprint employees designated as veterans. Our veterans bring character, decisiveness, commitment, competitiveness, and skill to Sprint and help to make our company stronger. Sprint’s commitment to the military and to veterans has received national recognition, including being named a 2012 Most Valuable Employer for Military for the fourth year in a row by CivilianJobs.com.
