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Nextel

COMPANY

Wireless communications provider (paging services, etc.), founded in 1987 as Fleet Call, a radio dispatch firm. Name changed in 1993 to Nextel. It was acquired by Sprint in 2005, and the combined company renamed Sprint Nextel.

Official Website:
http://www.nextel.com/

Industry:
Communications

Ticker:
NASDAQ:NXTL (defunct)

Corporate headquarters:
Reston, VA

Sales:
$10.8B (2003)

Employees:
17000 (2003)

EXECUTIVES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Daniel F. Akerson
Business
c. 1948   The Carlyle Group
Nathaniel A. Davis
Business
c. 1954   President of XM Radio
Timothy M. Donahue
Business
1949   CEO of Nextel, 1999-2005
James F. Mooney
Business
c. 1955   Former CFO Americas, IBM

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Daniel F. Akerson
Business
c. 1948   The Carlyle Group
Keith J. Bane
Business
c. 1940   Former EVP Global Stategy, Motorola
Timothy M. Donahue
Business
1949   CEO of Nextel, 1999-2005
Frank M. Drendel
Business
c. 1948   CEO of CommScope
V. Janet Hill
Business
c. 1948   Alexander & Associates
William E. Kennard
Government
19-Jan-1957   FCC Chairman, 1997-2001

CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Dennis Franz
Actor
28-Oct-1944   Det. Sipowicz on NYPD Blue


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