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Until 2005, the company was also known as the Sprint Corporation, but took the name Sprint Nextel Corporation when it merged with Nextel Communications and adopted its black and yellow color scheme, along with a new logo. In 2013, following the shutdown of the Nextel network and concurrent with the acquisition by SoftBank, the company resumed ...
Nextel's iDEN network offered a then unique push-to-talk "walkie-talkie" feature in addition to direct-dialed voice calls. Nextel was one of the first providers in the United States to offer a national digital cellular coverage footprint. Prior to merging with Sprint Corporation in 2005, Nextel Communications, Inc. was a publicly traded company.
Embarq Corporation was the largest independent local exchange carrier in the United States (below the Baby Bells), [2] serving customers in 18 states and providing local, long-distance, high-speed data and wireless services to residential and business customers.
Sprint Nextel (NYS: S) carries $22.6 billion of goodwill and other intangibles on its balance sheet. Sometimes goodwill, especially when it's excessive, can foreshadow problems down the road.
In a recent filing with the SEC, Sprint Nextel (NYS: S) has laid out the procedure by which the Japanese mobile operator SoftBank will acquire its 70% slice of Sprint. SoftBank has already created ...
Sprint Corporation, in 2005, acquired Nextel and changed its name to Sprint Nextel Corporation. The company spun off its local wireline assets into a separate company in 2006 as Embarq Corporation. Sprint Missouri then became Embarq Missouri, Inc. Embarq was acquired by CenturyTel in 2009, which in 2010 changed its name to CenturyLink.
Sprint Nextel (S) announced today a plan to upgrade its network over the next three to five years, aiming to save billions of dollars in the process. The third largest U.S. mobile-phone carrier ...
Embarq, the former landline operations of Sprint Nextel, which were spun off in 2006; these include operations dating from Sprint's time as United Telecommunications and operations owned by Centel, which it acquired in 1993.