Next Mobile's new service targets Filipinos abroad.

(From BusinessWorld (Philippines))

Byline: Ruby Anne M. Rubio

Next Mobile, Inc. (NMI), the country's newest mobile telephone system operator, will launch its partnership with telecommunications giant Sprint Nextel in the United States in April following yesterday's local introduction.

Company Vice-President for IP services and international business group Ed Balontong said in a telephone interview that Next Mobile and Sprint intend to explore the partnership by strengthening its hold in the Filipinos working and living abroad and their relatives in the Philippines, local businesses with international partners or branches, and also foreign nationals …