Sprint (S) said it is providing Overdrive 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot devices from Sierra Wireless to eighth grade students at Oahu’s Myron B. Thompson Academy, an online public charter school. The project is part of a one-year pilot grant program.

ERF Wireless said its Oil & Gas Services division expanded its operations in Kansas to service a new contract with an oil and gas exploration company. The company provides wireless broadband communications.

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