Verizon to Buy NextWave Licenses for $3 Billion
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Verizon Wireless said on Thursday that it had signed an agreement with NextWave Telecom Inc. to purchase all of its airwave licenses for $3 billion.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. NWS.N   has agreed to buy 51 percent of Verisign Inc.'s VRSN.O   ringtones unit Jamba for $187.5 million, Berlin-based Jamba   said on Tuesday, confirming a report in the Wall Street   Journal.
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Verizon Communications Inc. VZ.N  has no imminent plans to bid for Sprint Corp. FON.N, people  familiar with the situation said on Tuesday, toppling a  potential obstacle to Sprint's $37.8 billion bid for Nextel  Communications Inc. NXTL.O.
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Sprint Corp.&#39;s agreement to buy Nextel Communications Inc., in a $35 billion deal unveiled yesterday, will shake up the mobile phone market and create the third largest US wireless service provider.
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The company ponies up $3 billion for key spectrum in buying out bankrupt NextWave Telecom.
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NEW YORK/WASHINGTON  - Sprint Corp. FON.N said  on Wednesday it would buy mobile telephone company Nextel  Communications Inc. NXTL.O for about $36 billion, creating a  U.S. wireless carrier with nearly 40 million subscribers.
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NEW YORK - Just two months after the announcement that Cingular Wireless will acquire AT&amp;T Wireless, Sprint has announced that it plans to buy Nextel Communications for $35 billion.
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Sprint Corp. on Wednesday agreed to  buy wireless telephone company Nextel Communications Inc. in a  cash and stock deal worth as much as $38.45 billion to gain  more business customers and more wireless airwaves to transmit  calls.
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Verizon Wireless is buying cellular capacity for 23 markets from bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. for $3 billion, ending the government&#39;s long tug-of-war over the never-used licenses and bolstering Verizon against
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LONDON - US cellular operators Sprint and Nextel have confirmed they are planning a $35 billion merger to create the third largest mobile carrier with almost 40m subscribers, behind Cingular, the market leader, and Verizon Wireless, a joint venture
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NEW YORK: Verizon Wireless said on Thursday it had signed an agreement with NextWave Telecom to purchase all of its airwave licences for $3bn.
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Sprint Corp. announced plans yesterday to buy Nextel Communications Inc. for about $35 billion in a deal that could give consumers better service but leave them with higher bills due to less competition.
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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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NextWave Broadband Inc., a subsidiary of NextWave  Wireless Inc. (NASDAQ: WAVE), today announced the roadmap for its family  of WiMAX baseband and multi-band RFIC chipset platforms.
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Alcatel  has signed a  preliminary agreement to buy Nortel's  third-generation  cell phone network unit for $320 million, aiming to achieve  greater scale amid cut-throat price competition.
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Sprint Corp. said yesterday it will acquire Nextel Communications Inc. in a $35-billion deal that will create the nation&#39;s third-largest wireless phone carrier, Sprint Nextel.
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DECEMBER 10, 2004 (REUTERS) - 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.