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Nextel Communications, Inc. was an American wireless service operator that merged with and ceased to exist as a subsidiary of Sprint Corporation, which would later be bought by T-Mobile US and folded into that company.
Sprint Nextel acquires Gulf Coast Wireless, adding 95,000 customers, mainly in Louisiana and Mississippi, to Sprint Nextel's CDMA network. The acquisition closed on October 3, 2005. November 21, 2005: Sprint Nextel announces a $4.3-billion acquisition agreement for Texas-based Sprint PCS affiliate Alamosa Holdings, potentially adding 1.48 ...
Boost Mobile was founded as a joint venture between Peter Adderton, Craig Cooper, Kirt McMaster, and Nextel Communications in 2001. [2] [3] It was purchased by Nextel in 2003 and, as a result of the merger between Sprint Corporation and Nextel, then became owned by Sprint in 2005.
AT&T Wireless (T), Sprint (S), and Verizon Wireless (VZ) have all probably had a secret wish that German phone giant Deutsche Telekom (DT) would get sick of being in fourth place in the U.S ...
The company was renamed AT&T Wireless. AT&T Wireless was sold to Cingular in 2004 to become the nation's largest wireless carrier. Following the sale of McCaw Cellular, McCaw took interest in Nextel, a then-floundering wireless carrier. By April 1995 McCaw gained effective control of the company contributing, along with his brothers, $1.1 ...
Sprint Nextel (S) announced today a plan to upgrade its network over the next three to five years, aiming to save billions of dollars in the process. The third largest U.S. mobile-phone carrier ...
Sprint-Nextel (S), the US wireless carrier also-ran, will begin to sell the Apple (AAPL) iPhone 5 in mid-October. The Wall Street Journal reports that AT&T (T) Wireless and Verizon Wireless will ...
On October 14, 2012, it was announced that Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank would purchase 70% of Sprint Nextel Corporation for $20.1 billion. [7] This initially led to speculation that Sprint would buy out Clearwire, but "two well placed sources" within Sprint said that such a maneuver would not occur.