KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Sprint Nextel Corp. said Tuesday that it would buy outstanding shares of Nextel Partners Inc. in a deal valued at $6.5 billion, or $28.50 per share, settling a battle with its ...

NEW YORK -- Sprint Corp.'s $35 billion acquisition of Nextel Communications Inc. could challenge Cingular Wireless and Verizon Wireless for supremacy in a ruthlessly competitive business where prices ...

Sprint is close to an agreement to buy Nextel for more than $35 billion in a mostly stock deal, sources familiar with the situation said on Friday. A Sprint-Nextel merger, which would combine the No.

Acquisition bolsters Sprint s prepaid wireless business.Consolidation hit the wireless world Tuesday as Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) said it agreed to acquire Warren-based Virgin Mobile USA Inc.

NEW YORK (AP) Telecommunications giant Sprint Corp. is acquiring Nextel Communications Inc. in a $35 billion deal that would create the nation's third largest wireless telephone service provider. The ...

Sprint, the no. 3 American mobile phone carrier, agreed to buy US Unwired for $1.3 billion to silence a critic that had sued to block Sprint’s planned purchase of Nextel Communications. US Unwired ...

Sprint Nextel said yesterday it will acquire affiliate Northern PCS in a deal worth $312.5 million, the seventh such purchase for the wireless company in the past two years. Since Sprint's 2005 merger ...