Sprint's $36 billion acquisition of Nextel in 2005 has been a headache. Sprint Nextel has suffered from poor call quality -- especially on the Nextel network -- poor customer service, and a tepid product lineup.
The prepaid cell phone market has finally hit the U.S. in a big way as economically strapped consumers flock to inexpensive pay-as-you-go services. The result will likely mean that big cell phone providers may be forced to slash prices on contract service plans to keep consumers from defecting.
Following the outbreaks of SARS and avian flu earlier this decade, Sprint Nextel has taken the threat of a global flu pandemic very seriously. And in 2005 the company created a special group within its Emergency Incident Management team to plan what to do in such an emergency.
It's been clear for some time that Sprint Nextel needs a major turnaround. Lots of Sprint users switch to AT&T and Verizon -- not many move in the opposite direction. And with the news this week that No. 3 wireless carrier in the U.S. is laying off 8,000 employees, the resurrection of Sprint won't be easy or painless.
Another day, another job cut announcement by a major company.
Sprint Nextel Corp. will cut a total of about 8,000 jobs by March 31, the company said Monday.
An animated video shows a woman jogging by the side of a road - until a wayward car sends her flying into the grass. In another, a motorcycle crashes into a truck parked in the bicycle lane at twilight. In a third, the pipes in an attic tilt, causing moisture to collect and creating mold that spreads spores through the house and into the inhabitants' lungs.
WiMax hopes were revived Wednesday morning, and once again the wireless broadband opportunity is huge - in more ways than one. The big buzz around the wealth of mobile Net potential is almost overshadowed by the massive tab that even six tech giants can't fully cover.
Clearwire and Sprint Nextel will combine their wireless broadband units to create a $14.55 billion communications company
Sprint may be exploring a set of spin-off options that would splinter the company into a number of parts.
Sprint's $36 billion acquisition of Nextel in 2005 has been a headache. Sprint Nextel has suffered from poor call quality -- especially on the Nextel network -- poor customer service, and a tepid product lineup.
The prepaid cell phone market has finally hit the U.S. in a big way as economically strapped consumers flock to inexpensive pay-as-you-go services. The result will likely mean that big cell phone providers may be forced to slash prices on contract service plans to keep consumers from defecting.
Following the outbreaks of SARS and avian flu earlier this decade, Sprint Nextel has taken the threat of a global flu pandemic very seriously. And in 2005 the company created a special group within its Emergency Incident Management team to plan what to do in such an emergency.
It's been clear for some time that Sprint Nextel needs a major turnaround. Lots of Sprint users switch to AT&T and Verizon -- not many move in the opposite direction. And with the news this week that No. 3 wireless carrier in the U.S. is laying off 8,000 employees, the resurrection of Sprint won't be easy or painless.
Another day, another job cut announcement by a major company.
Sprint Nextel Corp. will cut a total of about 8,000 jobs by March 31, the company said Monday.
An animated video shows a woman jogging by the side of a road - until a wayward car sends her flying into the grass. In another, a motorcycle crashes into a truck parked in the bicycle lane at twilight. In a third, the pipes in an attic tilt, causing moisture to collect and creating mold that spreads spores through the house and into the inhabitants' lungs.
WiMax hopes were revived Wednesday morning, and once again the wireless broadband opportunity is huge - in more ways than one. The big buzz around the wealth of mobile Net potential is almost overshadowed by the massive tab that even six tech giants can't fully cover.
Clearwire and Sprint Nextel will combine their wireless broadband units to create a $14.55 billion communications company
Sprint may be exploring a set of spin-off options that would splinter the company into a number of parts.
WiMax may not be dead after all.
Sprint's world of pain puts a sting on rivals AT&T and Verizon.
Sprint chief Dan Hesse will face investors for the first time Thursday morning. His biggest challenge? To stop people from gawking at all the problems he's inherited and get them to focus on the fixes he's making.
The cutbacks are only beginning at Sprint.
To what extent can an employee plaintiff use testimony from co-workers to prove that a company discriminates based on age? That's the issue that the Supreme Court took up Monday morning in Sprint and United Management Company versus Mendelsohn.
A few weeks ago, Sprint Nextel and Clearwire, an upstart wireless company backed by cellular pioneer Craig McCaw, severed plans to jointly build wireless broadband services, a venture that was supposed to accelerate the nationwide rollout of a technology called WiMax.
Sprint Nextel has rejected a massive investment bid that would have installed a former company chairman as CEO, according to a report Thursday afternoon.
Sprint Nextel said Monday that Gary Forsee, the company's chairman and chief executive officer, is leaving immediately.
The Dow dipped and the Nasdaq gained Monday as investors played it cautious after last week's rally and ahead of the start of the quarterly earnings reporting period later this week.
Sprint Nextel CEO Gary Forsee is feeling the pressure from activist investor Ralph Whitworth, according to a published report.
Sprint Nextel Corp, the No. 3 U.S. wireless service, posted lower quarterly profit on Wednesday but beat analysts' average forecast as it added new subscribers.
Google Inc. has made its biggest move yet on the U.S. mobile Web market by signing a deal with Sprint Nextel Corp. that positions the Internet company to build services to run on Sprint's planned WiMAX high-speed wireless network.
Almost a year after Sprint Nextel Corp. announced it would develop a mobile broadband network using WiMax technology, the wireless provider said Thursday it was teaming up with competing provider Clearwire Corp. to help build it
In a service economy, complaining is necessary -- which is why the cell phone company should have kept its customers
Sprint Nextel Corp. isn't apologizing for its decision to ax customers it determined were calling customer service too often
Shares in Sprint Nextel Corp. surged as much as 16 percent in afterhours trade after a media report South Korea's SK Telecom Co. was preparing to bid for the No. 3 U.S. wireless company. Shares in South Korea's top mobile phone operator also each in Helio, which rents network space from Sprint.
Wireless Internet service works great - so long as you're in a Wi-Fi hotspot. But what if you could have wireless Internet everywhere you go, available on your laptop and cell phone, at speeds that can leave both DSL and 3G data networks in the dust?
On April 26, a hearing will be held in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, where NASCAR will represent itself against team sponsor AT&T in order to protect the rights of its series sponsor, Nextel. The case will determine if AT&T has the right to sponsor Jeff Burton's No. 31 Chevrolet in 2008 and beyond following the company's permanent name change from Cingular (the current sponsor of the No. 31) to AT&T. Depending on the outcome, Burton's team may need a new sponsor next season.
It's been a tumultuous couple of months for Sprint Nextel, and that has led to some speculation that the wireless company could be a takeover target.
[HIT] Getting Sirius. Everyone from the competition to the media to Wall Street ridiculed Sirius Satellite Radio for spending $500 million to land Howard Stern--but the King of All Fart Jokes seems...
Sprint Nextel Corporation ranks no. 165 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $34.7 billion in revenues, up 26.4% from the previous year. The Reston, Virginia-based company was ranked no. 192 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $1.8 billion.
Sprint Nextel saved WiMax. Now it's up to WiMax to return the favor.
Craig McCaw, it appears, has done it again.
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp., the No. 3 U.S. wireless service, has seen interest from other cable television companies wanting to join its venture with four cable TV providers, its top executive said Monday.
With TV's upfront advertising sales set to start next month, the habits of TiVo owners and other digital video recorder users -- who comprise about 9 percent of the audience, a figure that's set to double by the end of 2006 -- are a hot issue. Two seemingly contradictory reports have come out. The first claims, unsurprisingly, that DVR viewers skip ads so much that they barely add anything to the TV ratings advertisers pay for. The second *argues* that even though viewers fast-forward through commercials, they still recall the ads just as well as viewers who watch in real time. The reason, a hopeful CBS executive tells MediaDailyNews, is that when fast-forwarding, a viewer's attention is necessarily fixed on the screen so that they don't miss their show. So they still see the advertiser's message, albeit speeded up and without sound. Regular TV viewers, on the other hand, are prone to such advertiser-unfriendly habits as getting snacks and going to the bathroom during commercial breaks.
Collegeboxes ships and stores the belongings of more than 6,000 students from 35 colleges and universities across the country--quite a logistical feat for a small, fast-growing outfit. The company'...
Users of Sprint's mobile and long-distance phone service in the Western United States faced a widespread outage that lasted more than three hours Monday after a fiber-optic cable was cut in California, the telephone company said.
Users of Sprint's mobile and landline long-distance phone service in the western United States faced a widespread outage Monday after a fiber-optic cable was cut in California, the phone company said.
For those in the technology industry, the real holiday season starts on January 5, when the annual Consumer Electronics Show kicks off in Las Vegas.
(or even anything like this), you're in luck: The three biggest wireless carriers in the country--Cingular, Sprint and Verizon Wireless--have incorporated video programming into their mobile-phone service. ...
It's as though you'd found a new best friend. Your real estate broker chauffeurs you around town, hangs on your every word and takes pains to flatter your family at every turn.
Does the idea of being away from the television on game day give you the shakes? When you come home, do you--even before you put down your keys--reach for the remote? If you're somewhat like this (...
Q Three years ago someone opened a cell-phone account in my name. After a long dispute, including collection notices (I even called my state attorney general), Sprint confirmed it wasn't mine and p...
Three years ago someone opened a cell-phone account in my name. After a long dispute, including collection notices (I even called my state attorney general), Sprint confirmed it wasn't mine and promised my credit would be cleaned up. But the delinquent item is still on two of my three reports. I'm in the military, where perfect credit is a must. Mine's been spotless for 19 years. Help! -- F.W., San Antonio
Sprint Nextel, the company created from the merger of the two wireless giants, has assumed the old ticker symbol of Sears, the single-letter "S."
A simple bowling simulation played on tiny LCD screens wouldn't normally generate excitement about a young software company. Yet by combining hypnotically simple games with a seasoned management te...
Sprint Corp. (FON ) launched a pay email service with Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) for its mobile phone customers, as the companies look to tap into the rapidly growing wireless data-service market.
Cell phone carriers are looking to give satellite radio operators a run for their money.
Price wars. Turf battles. New services. Ever-cooler gadgets. For consumers, what's going on in telecom these days is nothing short of boom times. Baby Bells and upstarts have come in with low-price...
AFTER SHUNNING BIG DEALS FOR more than three years, corporate America has suddenly launched a new merger wave that marks not a tentative comeback but what looks like the start of a swaggering, full...
A FEW YEARS AGO, A SPRINT/NEXTEL merger would have seemed like something out of a Raymond Carver short story: Two down-on-their-luck losers hooking up out of loneliness and despair. After the telec...
Cell phone service providers Sprint and Nextel announced plans to combine in a deal valued at about $35 billion Wednesday.
What is it with big tech deals always happening right around the year-end holidays? Don't the tech titans realize we business journalists have vacations to attend to?
Sprint and Nextel announced plans for a $36 billion merger Wednesday, creating a new major wireless phone power with a customer base to challenge its two larger rivals.
The $35 billion merger agreement of Sprint and Nextel could give a lift to U.S. stocks at Wednesday's open, but concerns about higher oil prices may hold down any gains.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - And then there were four?
Is the wireless phone industry down to its final strike? That's a viable, if loaded, question to ask the industry, which is in San Francisco this week for the big conference of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association.
When most other telecoms looked like clunkers, wireless carrier (and NASCAR sponsor) Nextel performed like, well, a racecar. In the two years since FORTUNE urged investors to take a closer look at ...
--NOT QUITE MILLER TIME
The worst may finally be over for many telecom stocks.
In some ways, Mary Still is a typical weight-loss success story. She changed her eating habits, started working out and dropped 82 pounds in a year.
Ever since AT&T divested the Bell System two decades ago, the company has tried desperately to reassemble the assets that would enable it to once again become Americans' sole provider of communicat...
There's been good news galore from companies in the wireless sector recently.
If the telecom sector were a patient in a hospital, it seems safe to say that its condition would be critical, but stable.
Electronic navigation systems are a popular option in luxury cars, where the integrated systems with color maps can cost thousands. Now Motorola, in conjunction with Nextel, has rolled out turn-by-turn navigation for the common man.
Sprint Corp., the nation's No. 4 long-distance provider, said Sunday it will eliminate its wireless unit tracking stock, recombining it with the phone service shares into a stock that reflects all of the company's activities.
A reckoning is coming to the cell-phone business. Forget about 3G, mobile gaming, and other supposedly disruptive technologies; on Nov. 24 the industry will enter a Darwinian phase that will ration...
A little before 4 P.M. on Aug. 14, Nasdaq CIO Steve Randich climbed into his Jeep Wrangler in downtown Manhattan. He needed to visit the market's data center outside the city and wanted to beat rus...
First suggestion for Sprint's incoming CEO: Borrow a trench coat from the company's pitchman. The X-Files wannabe mysteriously appears in living rooms to solve cellphone problems, and Sprint's new ...
As if CEOs and corporate directors don't have enough nightmares, consider this: America's most feared class-action lawyer and its most zealous shareholder activist just joined forces to try to make...
Ko Nishimura is anything but a showman. The chairman and CEO of Solectron, a $12 billion-a-year electronics manufacturer, drives a 1993 Honda Accord to work every day. Nishimura, who spent part of ...
Must every utterance in telecommunications history be so banal? "Hi, Barry. This is Dan," Motorola senior vice president Dan Coombes said to Nextel Communications chief technology officer Barry Wes...
In June 2000 I made a bold declaration in this space. After suffering through misbehaving phones, a patchy network, and horrible customer service with Sprint PCS, I wrote an open letter to then-CEO...
On a typically cloudy spring morning in the Pacific Northwest, Craig McCaw stands by the window of his office at Eagle River, his private investing company in Kirkland, Wash., on the far side of th...
You can't blame the telecom community for developing some real hang-ups. The sector's precipitous slide initially forced its erstwhile boosters into feelings of shock and denial. Lately, as earning...
A year ago small businesses even thinking about deploying fast Internet access sat poised waiting for the moment when the broadband revolution would hit them full force and they could finally enact...
One day last June, Len Lauer, the head of Sprint's global markets group, stopped in on a customer near Chicago. He had a lot on his mind. Newspaper headlines were blaring that Sprint's $129 billion...
There's an old saying at the poker table that if you don't know who the sucker is, it's you. Well, there are more than a few suckers out there betting on broadband, you can be sure. The world is ju...
Have you been making enemies of your friends and family by monopolizing the phone line as you browse the Internet? The most obvious solution is an additional phone line. But that can cost as much a...
The largest merger in U.S. history ended up in the dustbin of history on July 13, when WorldCom and Sprint abandoned their $129 billion merger agreement amid opposition from regulators here and ove...
The phones of telecom executives and their investment bankers have been ringing off the hook since the feds hung up on WorldCom's proposed buy-out of Sprint in July. "The big boys are hunting," say...
Just when you thought tech mania was dead, the Nasdaq index is back. On May 23 it hit a low of 3165. But in the next 21 trading days, it rose 23%, powered by stocks like Rambus (up 212% since May 2...
These are solemn days at WorldCom and Sprint. In late June, the Department of Justice effectively nixed their $129 billion merger--nine months in the making. The next day the companies issued the p...
Psst. Wanna buy an Internet backbone? With American and European regulators circling, WorldCom appears ready to shed a ton of Sprint assets in order to win approval for the $115 billion merger of t...
What follows was originally intended as a private letter to Andrew Sukawaty, the CEO of Sprint PCS. I even printed it out and stuffed it into a stamped envelope. But then I decided the letter would...
As we told you a few months ago, long-distance companies are exploring new ways to charge for calls. AT&T was first to offer some customers flat-rate long distance, at a rate of $24.95 for 500 minu...
Of all the technological marvels of the past 10 years--and there's certainly been no shortage of those--three in particular top the list of things that have made our day-to-day lives easier. Of cou...
Nine months ago I said good-bye to my landline. I had decided that I wanted to buy a cell phone, but I was already paying more than $100 a month for my home phone and couldn't see spending more. Th...
Once again, I was wrong. Really wrong. Recently I've been giving speeches in which I inform the audience that cell phones will never be widely used to get text information. I was even getting cute,...
MCI WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers is sitting at his desk in Clinton, Miss., talking with a visitor about his favorite subject--okay, everybody's favorite subject these days, the stock market--when he ...
MCI Worldcom chairman Bernie Ebbers built the No. 2 U.S. telecom firm through more than 60 acquisitions--and made himself and shareholders a bundle. But will his planned $129 billion takeover of Sp...
It should have seemed like pretty standard stuff when MCI WorldCom, the nation's second-largest long-distance provider, made a play for its rival Sprint last month. After all, CEO Bernie Ebbers had...
For once, you're being nickel-and-dimed for the right reasons. With the introduction of new 5[cents]-a-minute calling plans from Sprint and MCI WorldCom--and the new 7[cents] plan from AT&T--it's c...
Making telephone calls while traveling has never been cheap, but the situation is getting worse for those not in the know: In February, AT&T quietly raised its standard calling-card rate to 50[cent...
For years, we've been hearing how some day our long-distance, local, wireless and Internet needs will be filled by one company and bundled on one bill, and we'll pay less for all this convenience.
The clearest glimpse of things to come in the telecom industry isn't to be found in the plush boardroom of Ma Bell. Instead, it's here in a ditch about an hour south of Dallas. Off Interstate 45, j...
Now that British cellular phone giant Vodafone has snatched up AirTouch, investors hoping to get in early on the next wireless deal may want to check out Nextel Communications. Of the three U.S. wi...
While long-distance phone companies have been beating the drum of price simplification for years, cellular providers seem to have thrived on complicated rate structures.
Navigating expressway traffic at rush hour takes all the concentration most of us can muster. So it drives me crazy when people swerve into my lane as they try to hold a cell phone and steering whe...
Just six months ago, we suggested that you check your long-distance service every six months. Well, that semiannual checkup couldn't be coming at a better time. Consider all that's happened in rece...
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