Sprint (S) Thinking About Nextel Sale, Spinoff Sprint Nextel (S) is considering selling or spinning off its shrinking Nextel walkie-talkie business, the Wall Street Journal reports. Sprint shares are trading up more t [..]
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A Sprint Nextel (S) Spinoff Could Be A Motorola Win (MOT) Sprint (S) is still trying to figure out what to do with the Nextel walkie-talkie network it bought for $36 billion in 2005 -- a deal it admitted this spring was about $30 billion too ex [..]
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Sprint Nextel Not Getting Rid Of Nextel After All (S) Sprint (S) won't ditch its Nextel walkie talkie business after all. After failing to find a buyer at the valuation it wanted -- Nextel's $5.4 billion in debt, according to the WSJ -- Sprint says it "intends t [..]
Sprint Nextel Stinks Up Another Quarter As 1 Million Customers Flee Not much improvement at Sprint Nextel, the struggling no. 3 wireless carrier: While Sprint's (S) rivals all grew last quarter, Sprint lost 1.3 million net subscribers, and swung to a $326 million Q3 loss on falling revenue [..]
Sprint Nextel Still Winning The Mobile Internet Wars (S) Despite its problems, No. 3 wireless carrier Sprint Nextel (S) is still beating its rivals at a game they all want to win: Getting subscribers to shell out for mobile data services, ranging from text and picture messagin [..]
Sprint Nextel reports larger loss in 1st-qtr
(AP) AP - Wireless carrier Sprint Nextel says it had a larger first-quarter loss as it continued to lose valuable monthly subscribers and had to pay for severance charges and other costs. YahooTechNews [..]
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SK Telecom says no plan to buy Sprint Nextel
(Reuters) Reuters - South Korea's SK Telecom Co (017670.KS)
said on Thursday it was not planning to buy a controlling stake
in any major U.S. mobile carrier, brushing off earlier reports
that it was eyeing Sprint Nextel Corp . YahooTechNews [..]
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CNBC: SK Telecom Eyeing Sprint Nextel, Again (S) Another potential suitor for troubled No. 3 wireless carrier Sprint Nextel? Maybe: CNBC's David Faber reports that Korean wireless giant SK Telecom is in talks to buy the compa [..]
Qwest Dumps Sprint Nextel For Verizon Wireless More bad news for beaten-up Sprint Nextel (S), though we've heard rumors about this for a while: Qwest Communications (Q) is formally ditching long-time partner Sprint as its wireless service partner for larger rival Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon (VZ) and Vodafone (VOD).
Qwest customers will have access to all of Verizon's phones, including RIM (RIMM) BlackBerry smartphone [..]