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FCC Approves Sprint Nextel Merger

Aug 3, 2005, 4:54 PM by (staff)

The FCC conditionally approved the Sprint Nextel merger this afternoon. The two companies can join their business and networks together so long as they make good on their promise to offer service in the 2.5 GHz spectrum within 4 years. The merger has now cleared all government roadblocks, just leaving suits from Sprint's affiliates in the way. Sprint's buyout of US Unwired, which cleared one lawsuit out of the way, has just been approved by the FTC. Sprint also reached an agreement with Ubiquitel, which will drop their suit if Sprint agree to not offer Nextel service, or any new service using Nextel's spectrum in Ubiquitel's service area. There are still three more affiliate suits pending.

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ErikaMarie

Aug 4, 2005, 1:01 PM

So will the Nextel Cup now be the Sprint Cup?

Inquiring minds wanna know...

nextel18

Right now, it will stay at Nextel cup, however, it will change.

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ron mexico

Non
Athletic
Sport
Created
Among
Rednecks

euro

Aug 5, 2005, 2:02 PM

Nextel in the Ubiquitel markets...

I was wondering if anyone knew if Nextel will waive early cancellation fee's to migrate over to Sprint PCS? At&t did this for their customers migrating over to Cingular. Also, how long do you think it will take for Ubiquitel to faze Nextel out of their market if this is the case?

tropicalhaven

There are still lawsuits pending with some affiliates.

I was wondering what Extend America, Nextel's rural affiliate, will do. In most of Extend America's coverage area, Sprint does not operate. However, with Nextel's migration to CDMA, and wit...
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muchdrama

Aug 3, 2005, 7:24 PM

Well, there you go...

...t-minus three minor (?) problems.

gunny

muchdrama said:
...t-minus three minor (?) problems.

Can’t stop a moving train, and nobody really wants to derail it.

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shleeban

Aug 6, 2005, 6:50 PM

Nextel Cup

THEY SHOULD RENAME IT TO THE POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE CUP!

SPRINT HAS THE SECOND WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE BEHIND CINGULAR.

WHY WOULD A COMPANY LIKE NEXTEL HONESTLY WANT TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THEM, THE CELL PHONE INDUSTRY SHOULD HAVE JUST LET THEM DIE A SLOW AND PAINFUL CELLULAR DEATH.... POOR NEXTEL, I FEEL BAD FOR THE TROUBLE THEY JUST GOT THEMSELVES IN.

helloalexb

Chill out on caps WILL YOU!???!

Sprint has potential and so does Nextel to become one of the greatest cell phone companies in the industry.

Give them a chance. This merge is good for all of us Sprint/Nextel subscribers.

gunny

Aug 3, 2005, 6:53 PM

HANDSETS

In the future when Nextel customers are merged into cdma will they still offer cool durable phones like the Motorola i560? I guess what I’m really asking is will current Sprint customers have a much different selection of phones in the future like the Motorola i560. I guess I said the same thing twice. 😕

Rich Brome

There will continue to be a line of Nextel iDEN phones - just like now - for at least the next couple of years.

After that, I am sure Sprint will try its best to listen to the needs of its customer base. I would guess that the eventual new l...
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nextel18

Nextel will operate the iden network till at least in the 2010 time frame. in 2007 they will start to migrate their network including towers and spectrum to the cdma network. they will keep offering phones till at least 2010.

there will also be du...
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nextel18

In addition to what i said, Rich Brome said it best. (they will try to do everything to serve the customer's needs. so far sprint and nextel as seperate entities have been doing quite well. now, take them together and it will be great. the phones as ...
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DDA

Aug 3, 2005, 5:24 PM

great

Now all that is left is those anoying lawsuits from Sprint's affiliates.

Joy de freaking joy

SprintPCSGuy

What I don't get is how Sprint is just gonna "not offer Nextel in those affiliate areas." What about existing Nextel customers in those areas?

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nextel18

Like i said previously, they are a non-event.

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Rascalu2

DDA said:
Now all that is left is those anoying lawsuits from Sprint's affiliates.

Joy de freaking joy

Well I suppose that if you were the owner of one of those affiliates and had a preexisting non-competition ...
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nextel18

Aug 3, 2005, 7:33 PM

By the way

This merger has also been oked by the DOJ too.

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