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Sprint Nextel

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Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers, businesses and government users.

Sprint Nextel is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including two wireless networks serving almost 49 million customers at the end of the second quarter of 2009; industry-leading mobile data services; instant national and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone.

Milestones

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  Sprint Nextel added Todd Ebert as Market Development Manager.
  Posted 7/8/11 at 6:23pm
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  Sprint Nextel added Dan Schulman as President of Prepaid Group.
  Posted 4/20/11 at 1:19pm
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  Sprint Nextel added Dan Hesse as CEO. (1/1/07)
  Posted 3/22/11 at 12:36pm
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  Sprint Nextel added David Messenger as Chief Administrative & Corporate Development Officer, SVP. (1/1/09)
  Posted 3/9/11 at 1:37pm
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  Sprint Nextel added Jim McNamara as Director Mobile Advertising Sales Channels.
  Posted 10/19/09 at 9:09am
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  Sprint Nextel added Lorenzo Dickerson as Sales/Marketing.
  Posted 10/17/08 at 2:05pm
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  Sprint Nextel added David Westendorf as Manager of Marketing.
  Posted 4/1/08 at 2:59pm
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  Sprint Nextel invested in IPWireless. (1/18/06)
  Posted 5/5/10 at 8:25pm via ipwireless.com
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  Sprint Nextel invested in Clearwire. (11/10/09)
  Posted 12/17/09 at 9:18pm via zdnet.com
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  Sprint Nextel invested in Clearwire. (11/24/09)
  Posted 11/10/09 at 7:02pm via venturebeat.com
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  Went public with stock symbol NYSE:S.
  Posted 4/29/08 at 11:29am
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  Sprint Nextel received in Debt funding. (1/1/10)
  Posted 5/10/08 at 8:38am via triplepointcapital.com
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  Sprint Nextel acquired iPCS for $831M. (10/19/09)
  Posted 10/19/09 at 1:36pm via allthingsd.com
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  Sprint Nextel acquired Virgin Mobile USA for $483M. (7/28/09)
  Posted 7/28/09 at 7:02am via foxbusiness.com
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  Sprint Nextel acquired Nextel Communications for $35B. (8/15/05)
  Posted 4/29/08 at 11:28am via com.au
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  Sprint Nextel — Sprint Inks Deal To Support Clearwire With $1.6 Billion (12/1/11)
  Posted 12/1/11 at 7:25pm via techcrunch.com

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Above: Sprint New Home Page
Uploaded: 6/15/11

Stock Price

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1. Sprint Nextel Silences iPCS (allthingsd.com) [edit]
2. Sprint to Acquire Virgin Mobile for $483M (foxbusiness.com) [edit]
3. Sprint completes Nextel acquisition (theage.com.au) [edit]
4. Clearwire takes on $920M more to build out wireless networks (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
5. Clearwire raises $1.5 billion to continue WiMax buildout (blogs.zdnet.com) [edit]
6. Sprint Nextel Leads New Investment in IPWireless (ipwireless.com) [edit]
7. TriplePoint Capital (triplepointcapital.com) [edit]
8. Sprint Inks Deal To Support Clearwire With $1.6 Billion (techcrunch.com) [edit]