We're crazy disappointed that they didn't go drrrty and decide to call the new combined company "Sextel", but Sprint and Nextel announced their new brand strategy and logo today (we can't be the ...

Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications today agreed to merge in a $35-billion deal, creating the nation's third-largest cellular telephone company.

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.

To no one's surprise, NASCAR and Sprint officials announced Saturday that NASCAR's top series will change its name next season from Nextel Cup to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in 2008.

Sprint is decisively driving the final nail in the coffin of their failed merger with Nextel by announcing plans to shut down the network, perhaps as soon as June 30, 2013.

The marketers behind a combined Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. are scuttling Sprint's traditional red logo for a new look heavy on Nextel's yellow-and-black color scheme.

Odd couple Sprint and Nextel moved closer to a proposed merger today when shareholders for both carriers approved the move. Although the target completion date is the third quarter of this year ...

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. 3 and No. 5 U.S. wireless service carriers, sources ...

NEW YORK - Telecommunications giant Sprint Corp. is acquiring Nextel Communications Inc. in a $35 billion deal that would create the nation's third largest wireless telephone service provider.