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Nextel provided digital, wireless communications services, originally focusing on the fleet and dispatch customers, but later marketed to all potential wireless customers. Nextel's network operated in the 800-MHz Specialized Mobile Radio band and used iDEN technology developed by Motorola.
Aug 12, 2005 · Sprint and Nextel merged in 2005 to create a mobile telecommunications giant with 44 million subscribers. The new company operated two wireless networks, Sprint's CDMA and Nextel's iDEN, and spun off Sprint's local phone services in 2007.
For a couple years in mid-2000s America, it was tough to go a day in public without hearing a very distinctive electronic “chirp.” It was the trademark tone ...
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Mar 4, 2022 · Nextel Mobile Worldwide, which owns the IP related to the Nextel brand that disappeared from the US mobile market almost a decade ago, is on the hunt for investors to help it finance a relaunch and the attainment of some lofty – and arguably unreachable – growth targets.
Apr 24, 2013 · Still facing an ugly second quarter ahead, the wireless carrier is poised for a turnaround as it shuts down the Nextel network.
Dec 15, 2004 · A 2004 news article about the merger of Sprint and Nextel, two wireless carriers in the U.S. market. The deal created Sprint Nextel, a company with more than 35 million subscribers and $40 billion in revenue.