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- The Nextel network was officially shut down at 12:01am on June 30, 2013, and Sprint began the process of deploying LTE equipment on the 800 MHz spectrum formerly used by the iDEN network.
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Nextel Communications, Inc. was an American wireless service operator that merged with and ceased to exist as a subsidiary of Sprint Corporation, which would later be bought by T-Mobile US and folded into that company.
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Aug 28, 2024 · After Nextel was acquired by Sprint and transitioned to other networks, the chirp phones and iDEN technology lost their popularity and relevance. Meanwhile, the world of mobile tech was changing fast. New technologies like GSM, CDMA, and LTE became the norm.
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Mar 9, 2022 · POMPANO BEACH, Fla., March 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2018 the famous NEXTEL™ brand was relaunched and reintroduced to the untapped multi-billion dollar small business cellular market.
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.
Aug 12, 2005 · Sprint and Nextel on Friday formally closed the merger they announced last Dec. 15, forming a mobile telecommunications behemoth called Sprint Nextel.
Dec 16, 2004 · NEW YORK — Sprint’s $35 billion acquisition of Nextel Communications could challenge Cingular Wireless and Verizon Wireless for supremacy in a ruthlessly competitive business where prices are...
Nov 13, 2019 · With T-Mobile not yet a serious player, the Nextel deal left Cingular (fresh off its similarly hyped 2004 merger with AT&T Wireless), Verizon, and Sprint as the three dominant major carriers.
