Sprint, Nextel May Merge
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With a combined 38.5 million customers, the new company formed by a Sprint and Nextel merger would move closer to frontrunner Cingular, which now has some 47 million customers following its
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NORWOOD, Mass. -- Cell phone companies Sprint and Nextel announced a merger Wednesday, creating the nation&#39;s third largest wireless company.
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Sprint and Nextel formally announced a $35 billion merger agreement Wednesday and gave details on how the corporate combination would affect employees and consumers. -The Washington Post
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DECEMBER 20, 2004  - Last week&#39;s merger deal between Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. continues a consolidation trend among wireless carriers that could help lower prices and bolster
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Cell phone shoppers looking for new deals and features didn't find them yesterday, a day after Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. announced a merger that the phone companies promised would shake up the wireless business.
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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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The proposed $35 billion merger of Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications could mean changes for Kirkland-based Nextel Partners Inc.
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The proposed $35 billion merger of Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. would have little immediate effect on current customers of either company.
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Sprint Corp. is close to an agreement to buy Nextel Communications Inc. for about $35 billion in a mostly stock deal that would combine the No.
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Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. announced this morning that they will merge the companies in a deal that would create a new wireless telecommunications giant.-The Washington Post
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Sprint and Nextel Communications could announce a &#36;35 billion merger this week in a deal that would forge a third goliath in the quickly consolidating wireless industry.  The union would complete Sprint's transformation from perennial also-ran in the troubled long-distance business.
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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.
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A possible merger of Nextel Communications, the fifth-ranked wireless carrier in the US, and Sprint, the third-largest, may be winning strategy, given the ferocious competition in the telecommunications industry.
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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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Citing "sources familiar with the situation," Reuters is reporting that Sprint is in advanced talks to buy Reston-based Nextel in a mostly stock deal that would combine the No. 3 and No. 5 U.S. wireless service carriers.
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If Sprint Corp. does hook up with Nextel Communications Inc. -- or, as some observers suggest, Verizon Wireless -- the merger partners will face a multibillion dollar-strategic dilemma.
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Sprint Corp. appears to be on the verge of the boldest move of CEO Gary Forsee&#39;s 18-month tenure: A $36 billion merger with rival wireless company Nextel Communications Inc.