Thousands of customers of Sprint Nextel wireless and its resellers, such as Virgin Mobile, were without service Monday after the network suffered two separate fiber cuts, a company spokesman said. At ...

Nextel seems to be the only carrier with service at my office so I really wanted the phone to work but after one week I was forced to return it. The main problem was with the sound. Even where I had ...

Nextel, a business-oriented wireless phone service, has extended its "Nationwide Direct Connect" feature to the Buffalo area, allowing walkie-talkie style calls nationwide. Direct Connect allows ...

Marrying into a family can always bring problems, but rarely do family feuds turn nasty as fast as the dust-up between Sprint Nextel Corp. and Nextel's most successful offspring. It's been only two ...

Nextel Communications is bringing users of less expensive phones an e-mail capability similar to what users of smart phones and Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry devices already enjoy. The Reston, Va ...

Parrying competitors homing in on its mobile corporate-data customers, Nextel Communications announced Monday that almost every cell phone it sells can now access office e-mail and calendar listings.

Cingular Wireless on Monday will launch a push-to-talk cell phone service, becoming the latest company to challenge Nextel's walkie-talkie-like technology. To date, no national carrier has ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. Thousands of ...