Sprint Nextel Corporation is a communications company offering a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications products and services that are designed to meet the needs of individual consumers, businesses, government subscribers and resellers. Sprint is the third largest wireless communications company in the U.S. based on the number of wireless subscribers, one of the largest providers of wireline long distance services and one of the largest carriers of Internet traffic in the nation. Its services are provided through our ownership of extensive wireless networks, an all-digital global long distance network and a Tier 1 Internet backbone. Sprint offers wireless and wireline voice and data transmission services to subscribers under the Sprint corporate brand which includes its retail brands on networks that utilize third generation (3G) code division multiple access (CDMA), national push-to-talk integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN), or internet protocol (IP) technologies. We also offer fourth generation (4G) services utilizing Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) technology through our mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) wholesale relationship with Clearwire Corporation and its subsidiary Clearwire Communications LLC. Sprint 4G is currently available in 71 markets reaching more than 110 million people as of the end of 2010. Source: SEC Filings

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Sprint Nextel plans FMC play in second half

Sprint Nextel plans to play in the fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) game in the second half of this year. In conjunction with its cable partners, Sprint Nextel will launch CDMA/WiFi handsets that

ALSO NOTED: Sprint Nextel files lawsuit against PI firm that obtains customer call records; CEOs say customer is king; and much

> Sprint Nextel said it filed a lawsuit against a private investigation firm that illegitimately obtains customer call detail records.

What's wrong with Sprint Nextel stock?

The excitement among investors over AT&T's acquisition of BellSouth has spilled over to a number of telecom companies, but not Sprint Nextel, puzzling some investors. Sprint Nextel's shares

Agilent to turn mobiles into mesh networks

Agilent Technologies has filed a patent designed to enable a mobile phone to act like a mesh network. The patent allows a mobile phone to communicate with a base station out of range by hopping

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> Sprint Nextel says its next-generation, mobile multimedia network to be deployed in the 2.5 GHz is still on track even though the company hasn't decided on a

Verizon Wireless intros field force application

Verizon Wireless introduced location-based services for the field force management market, announcing Field Force Manager, a Web-based application that allows a host of LBS applications. For

Inmarsat enters satellite-phone business

Inmarsat has long avoided the mobile-phone satellite business, but now chairman and CEO Andy Sukawaty, former head of Sprint PCS, is pushing the company into the satellite-phone operator business

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Qwest left out of deal making

Once again Qwest is left without a partner. The proposed AT&T/BellSouth combo has left Qwest with fewer deal-making options. Remember its failed attempt for MCI? Qwest isn't that attractive,

Sprint Nextel looks forward to battle with new AT&T

Sprint's CFO has painted a rosy picture for the carrier in the quarters ahead, especially because of the company's alliance with four major cable companies to offer subscribers "quadruple play"