Create your Benton.org account today. Registration is quick and easy. Creating an account gives you access to special features, click to learn more.
Joann S. Lublin
Sprint Mulls Shedding Nextel Unit
Submitted by Benton Foundation on May 6, 2008 - 7:16amWireless provider Sprint Nextel Corp. is considering spinning off or selling its ailing Nextel unit. The move would be a dramatic acknowledgment that Sprint's $35 billion acquisition of Nextel Communications in 2005 has been a failure.
