Sprint Sold 1.4 Million iPhones Last Quarter but Lost Two Million Subscribers Amid Nextel Shutdown

The shutdown of the Nextel network led to a major subscriber drop for the No. 3 U.S. cell phone carrier.

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Done Deal: SoftBank Now Firmly in Control of Sprint

With Dish out of the running, and shareholders and regulators having given their blessing, the Japanese company now holds a majority stake in the No. 3 U.S. carrier.

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As Nextel Shutdown Looms, AT&T Plans to Bring Push-to-Talk to the iPhone

AT&T’s service will work on the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5, and support group calling with up to 250 people at once.

As T-Mobile Swallows MetroPCS, It Must Avoid Indigestion

T-Mobile is expected to announce on Wednesday that it has completed the purchase, but much of the hard work remains.

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Sprint in Deal to Buy Rest of Clearwire

Sprint’s move to consolidate Clearwire is seen as key to a strategy meant to disrupt the U.S. wireless market, which is dominated by Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc.

Five Years In

With 20/20 hindsight, the Nextel merger was a mistake. The synergies, if you will, that we had hoped for and planned for didn’t materialize.

— Sprint’s Dan Hesse to GigaOM’s Kevin Fitchard, on his fifth anniversary as CEO

AT&T Takes Aim at Sprint’s Remaining Nextel Customers

AT&T has new devices and a push-to-talk service it hopes will allow it to win over a chunk of the remaining Nextel customers.

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Sprint Buys Spectrum From U.S. Cellular

Sprint Nextel Corp. Wednesday said it agreed to acquire spectrum and business operations in parts of five states from U.S. Cellular Corp. for about $480 million, in a deal that will significantly increase the company’s network capacity.

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