Sprint Nextel Corporation

Satellite TV provider Dish Network says it's thinking only of customers as it offers $25.5 billion to buy Sprint Nextel, the third-biggest U.S. wireless company. "A transformative Dish/Sprint merger will create the only company that can offer...

Two years before U.S. Cellular's 2002 entry into Chicago's wireless carrier fray, Jack Rooney, then its chief executive, said his upstart enterprise would never "be a big gorilla" but rather "a little chimpanzee that runs around stealing bananas and...

In a soda market completely dominated by Coke and Pepsi, it wouldn't make much business sense to purchase Royal Crown Cola unless you also had plans to get your hands on Mountain Dew or Dr Pepper. I'm guessing Japan's SoftBank has just such an idea in...

City Controller Wendy Greuel said she has issued subpoenas to three cell phone companies that failed to provide billing records for cell phone use at Los Angeles City Hall....

Joining the growing parade of class-action lawsuits against cellphone software company Carrier IQ Inc., suits have been filed by a group of five California plaintiffs alleging that the Mountain View, Calif., company and affiliated wireless carriers and...

Two weeks after the Carrier IQ dust storm, in which an unknown California company was found to have data collections software embedded on tens of millions of smartphones, one of the company's main allies is taking a step back....

Apple's iPhone 4S was made available for pre-order from AT&T, Sprint and Verizon on Friday morning. The online reservation of arguably the most anticipated smartphone of the year caps what has been a whirlwind week for Apple Inc., the world's most...

Here's your misfit-toys Monday roundup of consumer news from around the Web: -- Give Netflix points for knowing it was wrong. The company says it will drop plans to split its mail-order DVD and Internet-streaming services. The change is an......

Here's your caught-in-a-trap Tuesday roundup of consumer news from around the Web: --Summertime, and the livin' is easy. Or not. A new survey finds that 45% of company workers and self-employed folk intend to cancel or reduce their vacation plans......

Sprint Nextel Corp. lost 16% of its market value Thursday after releasing earnings results that disappointed investors and showed the company continuing to lose mobile subscribers. Despite announcing a $9-billion deal to share its next-generation 4G...

Here's your don't-you-forget-about-me Friday roundup of consumer news from around the Web: -- It's back-to-school time, and it's going to cost you. But many stores would rather you didn't notice. Some are using less fabric for the clothing and calling.......

Apple's highly-anticipated iPhone 5 is coming to Sprint this fall -- that is according to the latest rumor the fifth-generation iPhone. And while iPhone rumors have been rampant on the web for the last few years, they're also often inaccurate and as such,...