LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) - Sprint Nextel Corp. on Tuesday agreed to acquire the remaining stake of affiliate wireless provider Nextel Partners Inc. for about $6.5 billion in cash, ending a legal ...

In the middle of 2013, the then Sprint-Nextel made a major move. They cut the Nextel iDEN network down, and removed any aspect of Nextel from the ...

It was only six months ago that Sprint decommissioned and shut down the Nextel iDEN network, and while the carrier has no plans to bring that legacy network back, the name is another story.

Sprint Nextel is no more. Japan’s SoftBank completed its protracted takeover of the US’s third largest mobile carrier today, giving it a controlling stake in what is now Sprint Corporation ...

Sprint Nextel has finally shut down the Nextel network, with the death blow coming in the form of a software code during the wee hours Sunday. Skip to Main Content. Explore Our Brands. WSJ; ...

Sprint Nextel Corp.'s shareholders on Tuesday approved SoftBank Corp.'s acquisition of the bulk of the wireless carrier company. Softbank had been competing with Dish Network Corp. since April to ...

Net loss shrinks to %24643 million as more customers sign up for Sprint-branded business It continues to lose customers in Nextel contracts Loses 415%2C000 customers overall during the quarter ...

NASCAR’s title sponsor, Sprint Nextel Corp. is in the middle of a takeover battle. Dish Network Corp. on Monday made an unsolicited $25.5-billion offer to buy Sprint, which already had agreed to ...

In a move that could potentially thwart SoftBank's proposed $20B acquisition of 70% of Sprint Nextel, Dish Network has made an unsolicited $25.5B offer for the U.S. number three mobile services ...

Short of AOL and Time Warner’s merger, the Sprint/Nextel marriage was the kind of train wreck you generally only see on Jerry Springer. As in, $29 billion down the tubes, and continuing costs ...

Showing that it's serious about quickly phasing out its venerable iDEN network and traditional push-to-talk service, Sprint Nextel now plans to charge all subscribers on that system an extra $10 ...

Sprint Nextel Corp.'s S, +4.21% third-quarter loss widened on steep customer losses and the ongoing shutdown of its older Nextel network. Meanwhile, Sprint's sales of the popular Apple Inc. (AAPL ...