Nextel's Next Connection
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By using methodical strategies, Nextel Communications Inc. is the scrawny kid from Reston, Va., who grew up to become a scrappy fighter by. -The Washington Post
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Rumors are swirling that the next massive wireless merger is in the works.
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Sprint and Nextel Communications have signed a merger agreement. The combined company, which will adopt the name Sprint Nextel, will serve nearly 40 million wireless customers.
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A. Sprint and Nextel are projecting that it&#39;ll happen in the second quarter next year. They don&#39;t expect it to take longer than the eight months needed to gain approval of Cingular Wireless&#39; purchase of AT&amp;T Wireless.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Sprint Nextel Corp. on Wednesday said it would continue to support its Nextel-branded walkie-talkie network, which industry observers had speculated the company might shutter.
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Sprint Nextel and Clearwire are back in talks about a possible WiMax joint venture after&#160;a previous attempt to work together fell apart last year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed sources.Sprint&#39;s continued downhill slide, spurred by defecting Nextel customers, means the deal would make even more sense now, Nadine Manjaro, a senior analyst with ABI Research, told IDG News Service.&quot;They&#39;ve lost so much from iDEN (Integrated Digital Enhanced Network) defections, they don&#39;t really have the money to invest in WiMax,&quot; she said. iDEN is the push-to-talk technology used in Nextel&#39;s network, which Sprint bought in 2005 and continues to struggle to digest.Clearwire and Sprint, which own the bulk of 2.5GHz spectrum in the country, said in July last year that&#160;they planned to jointly build a nationwide WiMax network. But in November the companies said they had failed to reach a final agreement, and terminated their letter of intent.Since then, Sprint hasn&#39;t managed to improve its fortunes. The third-largest operator in the U.S., Sprint&#39;s subscriber base declined by 337,000 in the quarter ending Sept. 30. &quot;Sprint is not doing so well now,&quot; Manjaro said.Rather than building a scaled-down network with the assets it has, Sprint would do better if it partnered with Clearwire and also opened up to outside investors, said Manjaro, who worked for Sprint until last April.From the beginning, she said, Sprint hoped to attract investors to help build the network. &quot;They realized it would take a lot of money,&quot; she said. Attracting other parties has now become more urgent. &quot;They didn&#39;t anticipate being in the financial position they are in now,&quot; she said.Ideally, Sprint and Clearwire would create a joint venture that would allow each company to retain a stake in the company but also attract other companies, possibly Intel or Google, to provide needed capital, she said. A combined company would be able to negotiate better deals from vendors, she said.Clearwire has already built wireless broadband networks in 16 U.S. states. Sprint has launched services in Baltimore, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., under the Xohm brand.Spokespeople from Clearwire and Sprint declined to comment on the possibility of any renewed talks.
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Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday it will provide mobile Internet services to Nextel Communications Inc.
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Operators and manufacturers to collaborate on next-gen mobile phone platform.
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The enterprise customers doing cell-phone business with the confusing mix of AT&amp;T Wireless, Cingular Wireless, and AT&amp;T now have a future roadmap, after the three companies
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Predicting the next big thing is a popular activity in the mobile and wireless space.  Several experts look at what happened with some previous big things and predict what's next.
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Sprint Corp.&#39;s acquisition of Nextel Communications Inc. might result in more jobs in the company&#39;s local telephone service segment.
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Nextel Communications to supply U.S.-based U.S. Navy personnel with cell phones, voice minutes and wireless data plans.
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If Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications wind up merging late next year, don&#39;t expect the new Sprint Nextel to come roaring out of the gates with the kinds of massive service upgrades rolled out by the new Cingular Wireless LLC.
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The airline's frequent fliers will soon be able to check in using text messages on cell phones. Also: Netflix and TiVo are reportedly close to a deal to let subscribers download movies.... Sony unveils a digital high-definition camcorder.... and more.
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For the past two years, Sprint Nextel has been trying to reroute its cellphone signals to avoid causing static on emergency radios used at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. The wireless carrier and Maryland officials dispute who should pay for some of the costs.
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Verizon Wireless said on Tuesday it would not oppose a plan that would give Nextel Communications Inc. (NXTL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) valuable new wireless airwaves, sending Nextel&#39;s shares up more than 3 percent.
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Nextel was the big story in telecommunications yesterday, thanks to the Reston company's mega-merger with Sprint, but the future of wireless may be percolating in dozens of Washington area start-ups.