Sprint to offer online comparison shopping on cell phones

Sprint Nextel Corp customers can now use mobile phones to shop for everything from shoes to televisions in a new service the No. 3 U.S. wireless company has launched to boost revenue. [via Reuters]

"The company said on Thursday it is providing a mobile Web portal for shoppers to compare prices or buy about 7 million products from 30 online retailers, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc, Target Corp bluefly.com and shoes.com.

Sprint, which developed its Mobile Shopper service with privately held start-up mShopper, said it is the first to launch such a service in the United States.

It said it will not charge mobile users extra subscription fees for the service, but it will charge them for Web access."

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