NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp's acting chief executive, Paul Saleh, said on Monday he expects the wireless service provider's customer cancellation rate to improve through 2008 as it works ...

US telco Sprint is finally moving ahead with its WiMAX plans and will have a WiMAX 4G network installed in Baltimore and Washington DC by the end of 2008, after a year of endless testing - but two ...

Sprint had a rough year in 2008, but its WiMAX launch and incremental gains in customer service ratings could help its turnaround chances. 2008 was a bad year for Sprint. The carrier not only posted ...

Clearwire and Sprint Nextel are planning to merge their wireless broadband units to create a new $14.55 billion wireless communications company, with the new venture based in Kirkland, Wash. The new ...

Sprint Nextel Corp., the third- largest U.S. mobile-phone carrier, fell the most since 2008 in intraday trading after reporting second-quarter results and client losses that missed analysts’ estimates ...

Sprint Nextel said yesterday that it may write off as much as $31 billion related to its 2005 merger with Nextel Communications. If taken in full, the write-off would eradicate all of the "goodwill," ...

Sprint and telecom systems provider Ericsson have signed a seven-year deal that will give Ericsson day-to-day responsibilities for managing Sprint’s wireline and wireless networks. Sprint says that ...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Sprint Nextel Corp. said Tuesday it plans to spend up to $3 billion by 2008 to build a super fast wireless network based on "WiMax" technology. WiMax is sort of a big ...

Sprint Nextel says the high-speed wireless data network will be faster and more cost-effective. Photos: Sprint CEO bets big on WiMax Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, ...

Sprint Nextel Corp. today reported losing nearly 1.1 million wireless customers in the first quarter, marking the sixth time in the past seven quarters that the company has lost postpaid wireless ...

Sprint Nextel has given WiMax technology a green light, becoming the first major U.S. carrier to back WiMax for its fourth-generation (4G) wireless data network. Sprint, the third-largest U.S. mobile ...

NEW YORK--Sprint Nextel plans to spend $3 billion over the next two years to build a fourth-generation wireless network using WiMax technology. The wireless operator said Tuesday that it is partnering ...