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Sprint Nextel Corporation is a United States-based holding company that operates multiple wireline and wireless networks serving consumer, business and government customers in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands primarily under the Sprint brand. Sprint Nextel, through its various subsidiaries, also offers wireless services under the Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile and...  MORE

Sprint Nextel Corporation is a United States-based holding company that operates multiple wireline and wireless networks serving consumer, business and government customers in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands primarily under the Sprint brand. Sprint Nextel, through its various subsidiaries, also offers wireless services under the Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile and Assurance Wireless brands. Sprint Nextel is a tier 1 global Internet access service provider. Sprint Nextel is the United States' third largest long distance provider by subscribers. Sprint Nextel derives additional revenue by offering wholesale access to its wireless networks. As of 2012, the Sprint wireless network serves more than 55.6 million customers. Sprint Nextel traces its origins to the Brown Telephone Company, which Cleyson L. Brown and Jacob Brown founded in 1899 to deploy telephone service to the rural area around Abilene, KS. Prior to 2005, the company was known as Sprint Corporation. The company took its current name, "Sprint Nextel Corporation", when it merged with Nextel Communications that year. In 2006, Sprint Nextel exited the local landline telephone business, spinning those assets off into a newly created company named Embarq, which CenturyTel subsequently acquired in 2008. LESS