Akerson had quit the top job at Nextel after the would-be sale to WorldCom fell through.
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It will be the first smartphone on Nextel, but it will be the second cameraphone.
Mr. Seidenberg also had some words for his smaller competitors like Sprint Nextel Corp.
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Nextel, which has proprietary technology running on its network, prefers doing most recovery and recycling itself.
Not to mention, several of his investments have included XM Satellite Radio, Nextel and now WTT.
The system is now called Nextel, and lots of people you know use it.
Telecom executives say (unofficially) that Sprint is too busy digesting Nextel to think of buying Clearwire.
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Sprint Nextel is poised to launch another option: a cellphone that folds out into a tablet.
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The court also threw out claims against Nextel for aiding and abetting the alleged fraud.
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One is Mark Warner, the former Virginia governor and co-founder of the company that became Nextel.
Nextel, incidentally, was run then by Dan Akerson who now is headman at General Motors.
The company will offer the push-to-talk feature that made Nextel popular on CDMA-based phones instead.
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The senator has experience in venture capital and was an early investor in Nextel.
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"Sprint has been a disaster stock...the Nextel acquisition almost killed the company, " said Einhorn.
Nextel offers 20 billing plans but still services 2, 000 variations concocted over the last decade.
Nextel's stock may not have fully absorbed the company's solid performance and strong prospects.
But the competitors can't boast Nextel's recent string of victories, strong sales growth and solid earnings.
While Sprint has been showing net subscriber additions, losses from Nextel far exceed gains.
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Excluding the Nextel conversion, Sprint added a disappointing 68, 000 non-Nextel subscribers in the fourth quarter.
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The company's board will be split evenly with six directors from Sprint and six from Nextel.
Nextel for me went around the clock 10 times, an early player in cellular telephony.
In addition, customers can use Nextel Direct Connect from the United States to these six countries.
Akerson took over Nextel and found that the faltering wireless firm, true to McCaw form, had 15, 000 pricing plans.
Nextel began as a crazy quilt of local radio networks once used for taxi dispatch services and the like.
Some higher-profile companies are there, like Ford Motor, Sprint Nextel, United States Steel and Chesapeake Energy.
Reps from Cingular Wireless and Sprint Nextel declined to comment about possible YouTube deals.
The cellular network, which also serves Sprint Nextel, is available in 70 cities.
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