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