Carlyle Considered Buying Out Sprint
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A year ago, just after its first anniversary as a combined company, Sprint Nextel appeared ripe for the picking.
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Nextel is reportedly in advanced merger talks with Sprint, a deal that would form the third largest US cell phone company. However, there were indications a third player, Verizon Wireless, might make a run
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US mobile operators Sprint and Nextel are in talks about a $70bn merger (Â£36bn) according to newspaper reports. The deal would create the country&#39;s third-biggest mobile operator which would have 38.5 million
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Company says it might consider busting into pieces to revive its ailing cell phone business. But is it the right move?
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Sprint is considering options such as spinning off its WiMAX business and taking on partners in an effort fimd its nationwide wireless broadband network.
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Sprint Corp.&#39;s enterprise operation, including its nationwide fiber-optic network, suddenly is looking like a swan and not a lame duck, as Verizon Wireless assesses the possibility of making a bid for Sprint in the boiling cell-phone merger scene.
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A Sprint-Nextel merger could be announced soon. Will a deal be bad news for consumers and investors? NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - And then there were four?
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Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. may soon be expected to join their efforts in the mobile phone industry merging to create a company with 33 million customers and joined market value of about $35 billion.
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SpectraSite isn&#39;t in the room, but the Cary company could have much at stake in the merger talks between Nextel and Sprint. The two mobile-phone companies are discussing a
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The imminent deal underscores how rapidly wireless is displacing the traditional land-line phone business. If the merger goes through, Sprint plans to sell off its local-phone business, which
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Entertainment and media giant Time Warner is reportedly in talks with Sprint on a deal that would allow it to add mobile phone service to its growing number of offerings.
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The misinformation and confusion over whether or not the US mobile phone company Verizon Wireless, part owned by Vodafone, is going to muscle in on the $35bn (Â£18bn) merger of rivals Sprint and Nextel continued yesterday with hedge funds playing both
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Verizon Communications Inc. has eyed a potential acquisition of Sprint Corp. , but has no imminent plans to make a bid, people familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.
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Sprint Nextel Corp.  is exploring  new options for funding its wireless broadband network to  soothe investor concerns about the cost, The Wall Street  Journal reported in its online edition on Wednesday.
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PHILADELPHIA/NEW YORK  - Sprint Corp. is in  advanced talks to buy Nextel Communications Inc. for more than  $36 billion in a mostly stock deal that would combine the No. 3  and No. 5 U.S. wireless service carriers, sources familiar with  the situation said on Friday.
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Sprint and Nextel Communications could unveil their $36 billion merger within a few days, but speculation has intensified about the emergence of a rival bid.
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By DAVID TWIDDY    KANSAS CITY, Mo.  -- Sprint Corp...