92 Facts About Sprint Nextel

Sprint Nextel offered wireless voice, messaging, and broadband services through its various subsidiaries under the Boost Mobile and Open Mobile brands and wholesale access to its wireless networks to mobile virtual network operators.

Sprint Nextel used CDMA, EvDO and 4G LTE networks, and formerly operated iDEN, WiMAX, and 5G NR networks.

Sprint Nextel traced its origins to the Brown Telephone Company, which was founded in 1899 to bring telephone service to the rural area around Abilene, Kansas.

In 2006, Sprint Nextel left the local landline telephone business and spun those assets off into a new company named Embarq, which later became a part of Lumen Tech, which remains one of the largest long-distance providers in the United States.

In July 2013, as part of the SoftBank transactions, Sprint Nextel acquired the remaining shares of the wireless broadband carrier Clearwire Corporation which it did not already own.

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The Sprint Nextel brand was officially discontinued on August 2, 2020.

Sprint Nextel operated thousands of miles of track as well as telegraph wire that ran along those tracks.

In 1986, GTE Sprint Nextel merged with the United Telecommunications Inc property, US Telecom.

In 1988, GTE sold more of Sprint Nextel to United Telecom, giving United Telecom operational control of the company.

Sprint Nextel Corporation entered the Canadian market in the early 1990s as a reseller of bulk long-distance telephone lines that it bought from domestic companies.

In 1993, Sprint Nextel entered into a strategic alliance with Call-Net Enterprises, a Canadian long-distance service, and bought 25 percent of the company.

In 1994, Sprint Nextel spun off their existing cellular operations as 360° Communications to comply with an FCC regulatory mandate.

In September 1996, Sprint Nextel announced a deal with RadioShack, and in 1997, Sprint Nextel stores opened at RadioShack to offer communications services and products across the United States.

In 1999, Sprint Nextel began recombining its local telecom, long-distance, wireline, and wireless business units into a new company, in an initiative known internally as "One Sprint Nextel".

Sprint Nextel was formed on August 13, 2005, when the deal was completed.

Sprint and Nextel faced opposition to the merger, mostly from regional affiliates that provided wireless services on behalf of the companies.

On September 1, 2005, Sprint Nextel combined plan offerings of its Sprint and Nextel brands to bring uniformity across the company's offerings.

Sprint Nextel tried to address this with the advent of PowerSource phones.

Top Sprint Nextel Executives began leaving the company immediately after the merger closed.

Tim Donahue, the Nextel CEO, stayed on as executive chairman, but ceded decision-making authority to Gary D Forsee.

Tom Kelly, COO of Sprint Nextel, took an interim staff position as Chief Strategy Officer.

Two years after the merger, only a few key Sprint Nextel executives remained, with many former Sprint Nextel middle- and upper-level managers having left, citing reasons including the unbridgeable cultural difference between the two companies.

In 2006, Sprint Nextel spun off its local telephone operations, including the former United Telephone companies and Centel, as Embarq.

Sprint's acquisition of Nextel was a disaster from a fiscal standpoint in 2008, the company wrote down $29.

In 2005, Sprint Nextel acquired three of its ten wireless affiliates: US Unwired, acquired in August; Gulf Coast Wireless, acquired in October; and IWO Holdings, acquired in October.

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Alamosa PCS, which Sprint Nextel acquired on February 2, 2006, was the largest of its affiliate carriers.

SoftBank stated that Sprint Nextel will remain a separate entity, and will remain a CDMA carrier until it is an all-LTE carrier.

On June 20, 2013, Sprint Nextel increased its offer to $5 per share, the transaction was approved by regulators on July 5, 2013, and closed on July 9, 2013, and Sprint Nextel became the complete owner of Clearwire and its assets.

Sprint Nextel stated that this deal would increase the company's retail footprint by more than double.

On January 23, 2017, Sprint Nextel announced that they were buying a 33 percent stake in the music streaming service Tidal.

Sprint Nextel derives revenue as a wireline IP network operator and as a long-distance telephony provider.

Sprint Nextel is the United States' fourth largest long-distance provider by subscribers.

In 2006, Sprint Nextel exited the local landline telephone business, spinning those assets off into a newly created company named Embarq, which CenturyTel acquired in 2008 to form CenturyLink.

Sprint Nextel later expanded their Ethernet services to 65 markets in September 2011.

Sprint Nextel then launched Ethernet over copper and Ethernet over DOCSIS in 2016 to complement its Fiber Ethernet offerings.

Sprint Nextel offers its enterprise customers managed web-based services through its Sprint Nextel Web Services program.

In 2015, Sprint Nextel powered the Connected Officer program for the Los Angeles Police Department in partnership with Samsung, VMware, and Prodapt.

Sprint Nextel wireline is responsible for traditional telecommunications relay service, speech to speech relay service (STS), and captioned telephone service (CTS).

Sprint Nextel is in the process of upgrading these services from a TDM network to an IP-based network.

Sprint Nextel Corporation offers postpaid wireless voice and data services primarily under the Sprint Nextel brand.

Sprint Nextel Prepaid Group was a division of the company formed in May 2010 that is responsible for the operations of Sprint Nextel's pre-pay subsidiaries.

Boost Worldwide, Inc was a wholly owned subsidiary of Sprint Nextel that provides nationwide, prepaid wireless voice, messaging and broadband data products and services to customers in the contiguous United States under the Boost Mobile brand.

The services are provided as an MVNO hosted on the Sprint Nextel-owned CDMA, EVDO, WiMAX, LTE, and LTE Advanced networks.

Sprint Nextel Velocity was Sprint Nextel Corporation's Connected Vehicle Platform, announced in 2012 in partnership with Chrysler.

Sprint Nextel Corporation provided services using both its own spectrum and network equipment through affiliate agreements.

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Sprint Nextel provided back-end support such as billing and telephone-based customer service, while the affiliates built and maintained the network, sold equipment to customers, and staffed the retail stores in their specific regions.

Sprint Nextel is given access to the SRA network in return for allowing the use of Sprint Nextel spectrum.

Sprint Nextel Corporation provides wholesales capacity on its CDMA2000, EVDO, and LTE wireless networks to mobile virtual network operators, which allows other wireless providers to utilize its networks to offer its services.

Sprint Nextel operated a nationwide CDMA network in the 1, 900-MHz PCS band.

Sprint Nextel then continued to upgrade their 3G EV-DO network until it reached 260 million people in 2007.

Sprint Nextel has recently added eHRPD to its network in order to facilitate smooth handoffs between LTE and EV-DO.

On July 28, 2011, Sprint Nextel announced that it had decided to end its rollout of the 4G network using WiMAX technology, in favor of more internationally accepted LTE technology.

Sprint Nextel had announced that it entered into a 15-year agreement that included spectrum hosting, network services, 4G wholesale and 3G roaming, with LightSquared.

Sprint Nextel announced initial LTE deployment plans at the Sprint Nextel Strategy Update conference on October 7, 2011.

Sprint Nextel projected that the LTE network would cover 123 million people in 2012 and over 250 million people by the end of 2013.

Sprint Nextel has begun to roll out VoLTE, although the deployment is currently limited to certain markets.

Sprint Nextel has a variety of wireless and mobile broadband products selection from a full range of manufacturers, that are preloaded with the largest mobile operating systems including Google's Android, Apple's iOS, and Microsoft's Windows Phone.

On September 17, 2007, Sprint Nextel launched the Airave, which increased cell reception over an area of 5, 000 square feet and could handle up to three calls at once by hooking into an existing broadband connection and using VOIP.

That being said, Sprint Nextel is one of the only carriers that historically has not charged its customers for this type of device if the customer can demonstrate that Sprint Nextel coverage is inadequate where they live.

Sprint Nextel ended the CLEAR brand in September 2013 shortly after it closed its acquisition of Clearwire, and it no longer offers CLEAR-branded products and services to new customers.

Sprint Nextel began offering pre-paid wireless products and services via wholly owned MVNO Common Cents Mobile on May 13, 2010.

Sprint Nextel intended these products and services as a lower-cost alternative, charging $.

The products and services were initially available through Walmart stores; Sprint Nextel had planned to expand the distribution of Common Cents Mobile to other outlets, but never did.

On May 18, 2011, Sprint Nextel discontinued operating its Common Cents Mobile pre-paid brand, on the basis, it was a duplicate of the offerings of the Virgin Mobile USA PayLo brand.

Sprint Nextel decided to decommission the iDEN network it had acquired after merging with Nextel Communications in order to repurpose the network for LTE coverage, Sprint stopped offering Nextel Direct Connect walkie-talkie service.

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Instead, Sprint Nextel persuades many of its customers into their replacement service – Sprint Nextel Direct Connect which operates on the CDMA network.

Sprint Nextel announced on May 29, 2012, that it will stop marketing iDEN devices in the third quarter of 2012 and that the iDEN network could be completely decommissioned "as early as June 30, 2013".

Sprint Nextel provided its prepay partners Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile access to data services via the WiMAX network; including other Mobile virtual network operators under wholesale agreements.

However, on May 7, 2008, Sprint Nextel announced it would merge its WiMAX wireless broadband unit with Clearwire Corporation, receiving equity in Clearwire in return.

Sprint Nextel became the owner of Clearwire, after outbidding Dish Network for the company.

On October 8, 2008, Sprint Nextel launched WiMAX in Baltimore and showed off several new laptops that will have embedded WiMAX chips.

On July 9, 2013, Sprint Nextel acquired the remaining stock shares it did not already own in Clearwire and its assets.

Sprint Nextel Corporation is working on migrating WiMAX customers to LTE compatible devices in order to begin transitioning the WiMAX bands to TDD LTE.

In July 2013, Sprint Nextel announced its first tri-band products capable of accessing TDD-LTE data connections in the 2.

Sprint Nextel planned to shut its WiMAX network on November 6, 2015, however, an emergency injunction was granted by a judge of the Massachusetts Superior Court on November 5, 2015, to keep the WiMax network online for another 90 days, due to the ongoing lawsuit from non-profit groups.

The groups, Mobile Beacon and Mobile Citizen, said that the network shutdown violates the contract which requires Sprint Nextel to provide high-speed internet services for low-income families and public institutions, as most of the equipment was still not LTE-compatible.

Sprint Nextel pledged to provide upgrades to the equipment and work out a solution with the groups as soon as possible.

On February 1, 2016, the same court declared that Sprint Nextel can proceed with the network shutdown in the remaining 75 cities.

Sprint Nextel took the network of 16 cities, including New York City, offline on February 2, 2016, and closed 39 more on February 29, 2016.

Additionally, the resale value of Sprint Nextel-sold iPhones generally are the lowest of devices sold by the top four carriers in the country.

Sprint Nextel was ordered to implement a comprehensive two-year plan to comply with the commission's rules including training of Sprint Nextel employees on how to comply with Do Not Call rules.

Sprint Nextel was featured in Baywatch (2017) by Dwayne The Rock Johnson's character, Mitch.

Sprint Nextel was the official wireless sponsor of the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards.

From 2008 to 2016, Sprint Corporation was the major title sponsor of NASCAR's top racing series, formerly called the NEXTEL Cup, which became known as the Sprint Cup Series on February 9, 2008.

Since then, Sprint Nextel signed a contract extension with NASCAR to continue sponsoring the series through the 2016 season.

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Sprint Nextel was replaced by Monster Energy after the 2016 season.

Sprint Nextel Corporation held the naming rights to the Sprint Nextel Center in Kansas City, Missouri; after the merger in 2020, the arena was renamed the T-Mobile Center.

Sprint Nextel announced in December 2011 that it reached a multi-year exclusive partnership with the National Basketball Association to be the league's official wireless service partner.

Sprint Nextel was a sponsor for the Copa America Centenario in 2016.

Sprint Nextel was a sponsor of the Fox television series 24 and Fringe.

Sprint Nextel was a major sponsor of the NBC television series Heroes and provided exclusive web content to subscribers.

Sprint Nextel is a major sponsor of competition reality shows, such as Big Brother and Survivor on CBS, enabling viewers to vote each week for "Player of the Game".