The owner of the Nextel brand is heralding its re-entry into the US market and is looking for investors to help it along the way. But looking beyond all the whooping and hollering, and talk of a ...

Nextel Communications made history June 19 when it signed on to be the title sponsor of what will be known as the NASCAR Nextel Cup, starting with the 2004 season. Nextel replaces the current sponsor, ...

The widely rumored transaction, announced Wednesday, would create a company called Sprint Nextel with about $40 billion in combined yearly revenue and more than 35 million wireless subscribers, ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. While a ...

It was only six months ago that Sprint decommissioned and shut down the Nextel iDEN push-to-talk network, and while the carrier has no plans to bring that legacy service back, the brand is another ...

Sprint Nextel Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Gary Forsee resigned Monday as the board expressed disappointment with the financial results of the nation's third-largest wireless carrier. Sprint ...

Sprint will buy Nextel Communications in a $35 billion deal that will create a wireless behemoth. The deal, announced Wednesday, combines the No. 3 and No. 5 players in the market and will produce a ...

Nextel Communications shares ended their slide as the firm's Wall Street supporters rallied to its side by rebutting the analyst whose critical comments yesterday had spooked investors. Nextel shares ...

Sprint Nextel Corp. said Tuesday that it would buy outstanding shares of Nextel Partners Inc. in a deal valued at $6.5 billion, or $28.50 per share, settling a legal battle with its largest affiliate.

Parrying competitors homing in on its mobile corporate-data customers, Nextel Communications announced Monday that almost every cell phone it sells can now access office e-mail and calendar listings.

Sprint Nextel Corp. said it will start phasing out the Nextel part of its network in 2013, a decision that follows near-constant subscriber losses since Sprint bought Nextel in 2005. The shutdown ...

The first Nextel phone with a 2-megapixel camera, the sleek i880 may be a last hurrah for the venerable iDen voice network. If you're a dedicated shutterbug or saddled with an older model, the i880 ...