NEW YORK -- Sprint Nextel Corp. will start shutting down the Nextel part of its network in little more than a year. So what are the folks who use Nextel's walkie-talkie-like push-to-talk function ...

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. A Sprint-Nextel merger, which would combine the No.

Sprint and Nextel Communications on Friday formally closed the merger they announced last Dec. 15, forming a mobile telecommunications behemoth called Sprint Nextel. The new company, with about 44 ...

Sprint Nextel's battering in its fourth fiscal quarter was caused by a write-down from its 2005 acquisition of Nextel and a shrinking number of mobile subscribers Sprint Nextel took a battering ...

Shares of Sprint and Nextel Communications rose after reports that the American cell phone companies are in merger talks. The combined company would be worth about $70 billion, financial news network ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Sprint Nextel Corp. said Wednesday that customers of its Sprint Music Store have downloaded 1 million songs since it opened Oct. 24. The Music Store was the wireless industry's ...

Executives from Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. took to a stage at the St. Regis Hotel in New York today to announce a definitive agreement to merge their two companies and create the ...

NEW YORK — Sprint Nextel Corp. said it will start phasing out the Nextel part of its network in 2013, a decision that follows near-constant subscriber losses since Sprint bought Nextel in 2005. The ...

Sprint Nextel is considering a sale of the Nextel wireless network it bought in 2005, but may have trouble finding a buyer for an asset whose value has plunged about 80 percent to an estimated $5 ...

Fresh off, uh, fresh rumors that T-Mobile’s making eyes at Sprint, the WSJ is reporting that Sprint is “seriously considering spinning off or selling its ailing Nextel unit.” The Sprint/Nextel hybrid ...

Dec 18 - Fitch Ratings maintains the following ratings for Sprint Nextel Corporation (Sprint Nextel) and its subsidiaries on Rating Watch Positive: Sprint Nextel --Issuer Default Rating (IDR) 'B+'; ...

Sprint Nextel Corp. has recommitted itself to its Nextel business, which the struggling third-place U.S. mobile operator reportedly had considered selling off. When it merged with Nextel in 2005, ...