NEW YORK -- Sprint Nextel Corp. will start shutting down the Nextel part of its network in little more than a year. So what are the folks who use Nextel's walkie-talkie-like push-to-talk function ...

Sprint Nextel's battering in its fourth fiscal quarter was caused by a write-down from its 2005 acquisition of Nextel and a shrinking number of mobile subscribers Sprint Nextel took a battering ...

Sprint Nextel is trying to reverse a string of recent disappointments. Having lost ground to its rivals over the past year and struggled with problems with its old Nextel network, the Reston wireless ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Sprint Nextel Corp. said Wednesday that customers of its Sprint Music Store have downloaded 1 million songs since it opened Oct. 24. The Music Store was the wireless industry's ...

A year ago, just after its first anniversary as a combined company, Sprint Nextel appeared ripe for the picking. It's shares had lost nearly 25 percent of their value. Two long-time executives had ...

Sprint and Nextel Communications on Friday formally closed the merger they announced last Dec. 15, forming a mobile telecommunications behemoth called Sprint Nextel. The new company, with about 44 ...

Sprint is close to an agreement to buy Nextel for more than $35 billion in a mostly stock deal, sources familiar with the situation said on Friday. A Sprint-Nextel merger, which would combine the No.

Dec 18 - Fitch Ratings maintains the following ratings for Sprint Nextel Corporation (Sprint Nextel) and its subsidiaries on Rating Watch Positive: Sprint Nextel --Issuer Default Rating (IDR) 'B+'; ...

Fresh off, uh, fresh rumors that T-Mobile’s making eyes at Sprint, the WSJ is reporting that Sprint is “seriously considering spinning off or selling its ailing Nextel unit.” The Sprint/Nextel hybrid ...

Sprint Nextel Corp. has recommitted itself to its Nextel business, which the struggling third-place U.S. mobile operator reportedly had considered selling off. When it merged with Nextel in 2005, ...