Sprint Corporation

Sprint Corporation (formerly Sprint Nextel Corporation) is the third- largest U.S. mobile operator after Verizon Wireless and AT & T. The company's headquarters is located in Overland Park, Kansas.

Sprint Nextel is in the company's size before T -Mobile, the fourth largest mobile operator. The company was formed through a merger of Sprint and Nextel, the third - and fifth-largest company in the industry in the U.S.. Sprint took over Nextel for $ 36 billion in 2005. The company Sprint Nextel has attracted about 1.3 million new customers since the merger, and thus has more than 45.6 million mobile phone owners to their customers.

Sprint PCS, and Nextel use different technologies and frequencies Sprint PCS is a CDMA2000 network, while Nextel uses iDEN standard developed by Motorola. The two systems are not compatible with the GSM used in Europe. Customers of Sprint but have the opportunity to get a programmed telephone number with their SIM card, which they can use in GSM phones. There are also phones that are both CDMA and iDEN and GSM capable.

Sprint Nextel is currently a sponsor of the NASCAR Sprint Cup, a motor sports league in the United States.

Sprint Nextel operates through its subsidiary Link Sprint is a global provider's network and operates a backbone network according to the standard OC- 192nd Customers are large international corporations, retail and some fast-food chains. Link Sprint operates peering with Tier-2 and Tier-3 ISPs. Link Sprint owns networks in the United States, Western Europe, East Asia, Australia and India. The network cables are made entirely of underground fiber optic lines in the United States and Europe, as well as submarine cables in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Link Sprint is responsible for the cable maintenance and management of the consortium TAT -14.