$9.17

-0.23 (-2.45%)

5/16/2008 4:02 PM

Sprint Nextel Corp (S)

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A global communications company offering a range of wireless and wireline communications products and services that are designed to meet the needs of individual consumers, businesses and government customers.

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Sprint Nextel Corp At A Glance

Current Price:	$9.17
Last Trade Time:	5/16/2008 4:02 PM
Open:	$9.40
Previous Close:	$9.40
Daily Range:	$9.10 - $9.48
52-Week Range:	$5.48 - $23.42
Volume:	29,693,007
Market Cap:	$26.10B
P/E Ratio:	179.00
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Sprint Nextel offers big bonus to WiMax head
5/16/2008 6:35:00 PM - AP
Cable companies to ramp up Web, HD, mobile service
5/16/2008 5:24:00 PM - AP
Tech Roundup: HP nabs EDS, CBS grabs CNET
5/16/2008 4:29:00 PM - AP
Moody's to review Sprint ratings for downgrade
5/16/2008 12:29:00 PM - AP

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4 Sprint Nextel Corp (S)

Avatar PrinciplesPlus (72.59) Submitted: 3/14/08 12:47 PM

There is so much negativity built into Sprint that you just can't push it down much more. It is a given that Sprint has had a lot of bad press caused by customer care issues and misconceptions on the merger of Sprint and Nextel, and this has given rise to Sprint's poor image and customer defections....More

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5 Sprint Nextel Corp (S)

Avatar wolfhounds (82.55) Submitted: 1/29/08 3:44 PM

Build out of a costly Wifi network? They're going to get who to pay for it? If management is smart they'll sell this dog.

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Recs 0 (S) alan83 (59.99) Submitted: 5/14/08 11:02 AM : Start Price: $9.67 S Score: -5.66 Sprint was at the top of the multi-media game! Nextel was definately a HUGE player in the game as well and maybe the Nextel purchase was over priced, but within the next few years I think Sprint will dominate the market entirely. I look to see this stock move up to a solid $15+ platform and more likely to pursue the $18-$24 stock movement area. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (S) ColonelMoose (45.83) Submitted: 5/13/08 8:53 AM : Start Price: $9.16 S Score: -1.50 1. Hesse actually gets the company together. 2. Spin off Nextel 3. Get bought out Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (S) imobillc (69.51) Submitted: 5/12/08 4:35 PM : Start Price: $8.79 S Score: 2.89 Neutral position! Good for CAPS points only! Sprint Nextel Corporation (Sprint Nextel), incorporated in 1938, is a global communication company offering a range of wireless and wireline communications products and services for individual consumers, businesses and government customers. The Company conducts its operations through two segments: Wireless and Wireline. Sprint Nextel owns wireless networks and a global long distance, Tier 1 Internet backbone. The Company, together with three third party affiliates (PCS Affiliates) offers digital wireless service in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands under the Sprint brand name utilizing wireless code division multiple access (CDMA) technology. The Company offers digital wireless services under its Nextel brand name using integrated digital enhanced network (iDEN) technology. It also offers wireless services that focus on the youth market, including its Boost Mobile prepaid wireless service on its iDEN network and Boost Unlimited, a local calling prepaid service on its CDMA network. On August 1, 2007, the Company acquired Northern PCS Services, LLC. Wireless Sprint Nextel offers a range of wireless mobile voice and data transmission services on networks that utilize CDMA and iDEN technologies. It offers a range of wireless mobile telephone and data transmission services and features in a variety of pricing plans, including prepaid service plans. Its wireless mobile voice communications services include basic local and long distance wireless voice services, as well as voicemail, call waiting, three way calling, caller identification, directory assistance, call forwarding, speakerphone and voice-activated dialing features. Through a variety of roaming arrangements, the Company provides roaming services to areas in numerous countries outside the United States, including areas of Asia Pacific, Central and South America, North America and major Caribbean islands. The Company's data communications services include wireless photo and video offerings, including the ability to shoot and send digital still pictures and video clips from a wireless handset; wireless data communications, including Internet access and messaging and e-mail services; on its CDMA network, wireless entertainment, including the ability to view live television; listen to Sirius satellite radio; download and listen to music from the Company's Sprint Music Store, a music catalog with thousands of songs from virtually every music genre, and play games with full-color graphics and polyphonic sounds all from a wireless handset, and location-based capabilities, including asset and fleet management, dispatch services and navigation tools. The Company offers walkie-talkie services, which give subscribers with iDEN-based devices the ability to communicate across the continental United States and to and from Hawaii. Also, through agreements with third parties, subscribers with iDEN-based devices can communicate instantly with its walkie-talkie feature to and from selected areas in Canada, Latin America and Mexico. The Company's walkie-talkie features offer subscribers instant communications in a variety of other ways, including push-to-e-mail applications that allow a user to send a streaming voice message to an e-mail recipient, and off-network walkie-talkie communications available on certain handsets. Its line of combined CDMA-iDEN devices, marketed as PowerSource, feature voice and data applications, including its Power Vision data applications, over the Company's CDMA network and its walkie-talkie applications over its iDEN network. Sprint Nextel also offers wireless services that focus on the youth market, including its Boost Mobile prepaid wireless service on its iDEN network and Boost Unlimited, a local calling prepaid service on its CDMA network. The Company's services are provided using a variety of handsets and personal computer wireless data cards manufactured by various suppliers for use with its voice and data services. Sprint Nextel sells accessories, such as carrying cases, hands-free devices, batteries, battery chargers and other items to customers, and it sells handsets and accessories to agents and other third-party distributors for resale. The Company offers wholesale CDMA-based wireless services to resellers, commonly known as mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs). MVNOs purchase wireless services from the Company at wholesale rates and resell the services to their customers under their own brand names. Under these MVNO arrangements, the operators bear the costs of subscriber acquisition, billing and customer service. The Company provides wholesale services, through multi-year, wholesale agreements, to a number of MVNOs, including Virgin Mobile USA, Qwest Communications International, Inc., Movida Communications, Inc., Helio Inc. and Embarq. The Company also offers customized design, development, implementation and support services for wireless services provided to companies and government agencies. The Company competes with AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, Alltel Corporation, Metro PCS Communications, Inc. and Leap Wireless International, Inc. Wireline Through the Wireline segment, the Company provides a suite of wireline voice and data communications services, including domestic and international data communications using various protocols such as multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) technologies, as well as Internet protocol (IP), automated teller machines (ATM), frame relay and managed network services and voice services. It also provides services to cable multiple system operators (MSOs) that resell its local and long distance service and/or use its back office systems and network assets in support of their telephone service provided over cable facilities primarily to residential end user customers. The Company's Wireline segment markets and sells its services primarily through direct sales representatives. It also provides voice and data services to its Wireless segment. The Company competes with AT&T, Verizon Communications, Qwest Communications and Level 3 Communications, Inc. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (S) satur9nine (51.63) Submitted: 5/12/08 12:41 PM : Start Price: $9.25 S Score: 2.89 Nextel was a big mistake, the technology doesn't integrate, and they are losing customers big time. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (S) lenkristiy (< 20) Submitted: 5/09/08 3:49 PM : Start Price: $9.44 S Score: -5.53 Sprint can't go down much lower. The WiMax is a plus for Sprint. I think they will do much better once they can show it's going to work. AT&T & Verizon are creating something similar, so it shows it can work. I think they're nervous that Sprint will pull out ahead of them. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. 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