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Sprint’s money-pit acquisition of Nextel a few years ago proved to be a bigger drain on Sprint’s finances than they had expected. With the iDEN-based Nextel network dragging down Sprint’s bottom line, the No. 3 US wireless carrier has recently started courting potential investors to take the Nextel network off its hands.
Alas, the Nextel network proved to be more trouble than any investor wanted to take on and Sprint has been left holding the check. Of course, Sprint’s official stance on the matter has the company “deciding” to keep Nextel within Sprint’s portfolio.
Still, Nextel fans will be glad to hear that Sprint is renewing their focus on the Nextel network and has plans to expand the network by way of more cell towers and more hardware, courtesy of Motorola. Nextel is expected to launch 8 new handsets through the end of 2009.
The question remains – will Sprint be able to pull Nextel out of the muck while simultaneously growing the Sprint network?
[Via: MobileCrunch]
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Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
