Sprint Nextel Corporation

A Sprint store in in Hillsboro, Oregon
Former type	Public (NYSE: S)
Industry	Telecommunications
Predecessor	Brown Telephone Company
Founded	1937
Founder	Cleyson L. Brown Jacob Brown
Defunct	April 1, 2020 (2020-04-01) (as a company) August 2, 2020 (overall)
Headquarters	Overland Park, Kansas , United States
Area served	United States Puerto Rico U.S. Virgin Islands
Key people	James Hance, chairman Dan Hesse, chief executive
Services	Mobile phone services Internet carrier
Number of employees	40,000 (2012)
Website	www.sprint.com
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Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) was a telecommunications company based in Overland Park, Kansas. It operated under the name Sprint, and was once the fourth largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States behind Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile, with 56.3 million customers, behind Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility.