Sprint news from FierceWireless

Company Description:

Sprint Nextel was formed from the merger of two leading US wireless companies--Sprint with Nextel Communications. Sprint Nextel offers a range of wireless and wireline communications services to consumers, businesses and government users. Sprint Nextel is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying technologies, including two wireless networks serving about 54 million customers at the end of the third quarter 2007; mobile data services; instant national and international walkie-talkie capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone.

Stats:

Wireless Phone Customers: 54 Million

Employees: 103,483

Annual Revenue 2006: $41.028 Billion

Digital Network Technology: Basic local and long distance wireless voice services, voicemail, call waiting, three way calling, caller identification, directory assistance, call forwarding, speakerphone, voice-activated dialing features, roaming services, data communications services, wireless imaging, wireless data communications, Internet access and messaging, and email services, wireless entertainment, dispatch services, and navigation tools, walkie-talkie services.

Headquarters: Reston, VA 20191

(last updated 12/18/07)

Leadership:

Dan Hesse
President & CEO

Dan Hesse was named president and chief executive officer of Sprint Nextel on Dec. 18, 2007.

Prior to his appointment as Sprint president and CEO, Hesse was Chairman, president, and CEO of Embarq Corporation, the separate company formed from Sprint's former Local Telecommunications Division in 2006. Embarq generates more than $6 billion in revenues annually, providing voice, data, wireless and entertainment services in eighteen states.

Hesse spent 23 years at AT&T. From 1997 – 2000, he served as the president and CEO of AT&T Wireless Services, at the time the United States' largest wireless operator with more than 12 million customers, 20,000 employees, and $10 billion in revenues.