Sprint circles its wagons in Kansas
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Sprint Nextel has decided to consolidate its two headquarters, eliminating a relic of the merger of Sprint and Nextel Communications in 2005.After that deal closed, the new company set up its corporate headquarters in Reston, Virginia, which had been the home of Nextel, and established an operational base in Sprint&#39;s home of Overland Park, Kansas. Now it will have just one main office, in Overland Park.The move was widely anticipated as a new CEO, Dan Hesse, took over the troubled operator. Consolidating the networks and corporate cultures of Sprint and Nextel has proved harder than merging them financially, and it has weighed down a company that has enough problems already, according to industry analysts. Sprint is losing subscribers and struggling to distinguish itself as the number-three player in the U.S. behind AT&amp;T Wireless and Verizon Wireless. It is close to a limited launch of its WiMax mobile broadband network but is unlikely to reach its WiMax coverage goal by the end of this year, an executive said Wednesday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.Since Hesse took the helm in December, the company&#39;s top financial, marketing and sales executives have left, and it has announced plans to lay off 4,000 employees.Consolidating management in Overland Park will cut travel costs, bring executives closer to the company&#39;s operations and make better use of Sprint&#39;s real estate assets, according to a company statement. The move will require relocation of only a small number of executives, and Sprint will continue to have &quot;a very significant employee presence in Reston,&quot; the company said. Sprint has about 4,400 employees in the Washington, D.C., region and about 13,300 in the Kansas City, Missouri, area, where Overland Park is located.Sprint traces its roots to the Brown Telephone Co., founded in Abilene, Kansas, in 1899, according to the company&#39;s Web site.
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The head of a lucrative local phone venture conceived with Sprint's blessing, who once topped the ranks of AT&T, is returning to the fold to lead Sprint out of the roughest patch in its short history.
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan.  -- Channel surfing is moving off the couch as Sprint Corp...
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Sprint, the fourth-largest US cell phone operator, has started a $3 billion network upgrade, with $1 billion earmarked for a wireless broadband service to launch soon in selected cities, a Sprint executive said Tuesday.
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Merger challenges and dropped calls for consumers are taking a toll as Sprint aims to expand and upgrade.
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Sprint Corp., the No. 4 US mobile- phone company, said its customers will get access to 2,300 public wireless Internet connections run by SBC Communications Inc.
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Time Warner Cable said Wednesday it would offer wireless telephone service on a trial basis with Sprint next year in the Kansas City, Kan.
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In todayâs Wall Street Journal is the news [paid subscription req.] that Sprint and Nextel are moving forward with the planned merger, despite a possible threat from #2 wireless carrier Verizon Wireless.
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The rumors are true: Sprint Nextel will form the No. 3 wireless company.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ Time Warner Cable will offer wireless telephone service through Sprint Corp. under a tentative deal announced Wednesday by the two companies.
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Well, it looks like things are getting a bit more interesting regarding the Sprint/Nextel deal. It seems that Vodafone, which owns 45% of Verizon Wireless in the US, is supporting a move by Verizon to potentially buy Sprint PCS.
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Sprint Nextel is holding new discussions to team up with other firms to deploy a nationwide high-speed wireless network, according to company and industry sources.
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&#39;Tis the season. It&#39;s been a busy time for Sprint (nyse: FON - news - people ) Chairman and Chief Executive Gary Forsee, and it&#39;s not over yet.
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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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Sprint Nextel Corp , said on Wednesday it would kick off a new advertising campaign as the third biggest U.S. wireless service looks to improve the weak growth of recent quarters.
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Sprint (NYSE: FON) is taking its mobile-data services to the next level, targeting both consumers and business customers, as the carrier rolls out the Sprint TV multimedia service and adds the popular  BlackBerry e-mail application to its portfolio.
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The freewheeling wireless industry, known for its upstarts and edgy competition, got a little more run-of-the-mill Wednesday when Sprint and Nextel Communications formally announced a merger