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2007 NEXTEL All-Star Challenge

{Rewrite for clarity} A new event, which aired on Speed Channel and was sponsored by Kobalt Tools, was a race among NEXTEL Cup crew chiefs driving small Legends Thunder Roadster Cars (the creation of Lowe's Motor Speedway president H.A. "Humphy" Wheeler) on the quarter-mile oval in front of the main track's grandstand.

A new event that served as a preliminary to the All-Star Challenge, which aired on Speed Channel, was a race among NEXTEL Cup crew chiefs, sponsored by Kobalt Tools.

Bang Racing

He announced he would field the #82 Dodge in the Busch Series in 2005, with Kvapil at the wheel, and possibly expand into Nextel cup that same year, with NetZero sponsoring the #28 Dodge driven by Ward Burton.

C. S. Lee

He can also be seen as the office worker holding the boombox in the award-winning Nextel commercial, "Nextel Dance Party".

Clearwire

A large percentage of Clearwire shares were previously owned by a number of large companies including Sprint Nextel Corporation (now Sprint Corporation), Comcast Corporation, Time Warner Cable Inc., Bright House Networks, LLC, Google Inc. and Intel Corporation.

Clint Bowyer

He also made his NEXTEL Cup debut in the Sylvania-sponsored #33 Chevy on April 23, 2005, during the Subway Fresh 500 at Phoenix International Raceway.

Daniel Akerson

Shortly after stepping down as CEO of Nextel in July 1999, Akerson was brought in by Craig McCaw to run Nextlink Communications, later rebranded as XO Communications.

Las Vegas Monorail

BankWest debuted a red "MoneyRail" branded train, and joined Nextel Communications (now a part of Sprint Nextel Corporation), Hansens Beverage, and Paramount Studios (with a Star Trek themed train) as corporate sponsors.

LG Rumor

In December 2011, reports surfaced on the web that Sprint Nextel's prepaid subsidiary Boost Mobile was working with LG to offer an "LG Rumor 4" phone.

Mike Garvey

During the 2006 season, Garvey made four Nextel Cup starts for Competitive Edge Motorsports owned by Joe Auer.

Miller Place, New York

Miller Place's main business district is located on New York State Route 25A and includes mostly corporation-run locations, including a Starbucks, Subway, Ruby Tuesday, Applebee's, Stop & Shop, Gamestop, Sprint/Nextel, and many other businesses.

NII Holdings

In February 2010, NII Holdings and Grupo Televisa signed a definitive agreement under which Televisa will acquire an equity stake in Nextel Mexico.

Respecto Montalban

Owen Burke is a writer and producer for HBO's Funny or Die Presents and is also recognizable for his appearance as the "Dancing Office Guy" in a series of Nextel commercials, and has also appeared in many programs on Comedy Central and VH1.

RYR

Robert Yates Racing, a NASCAR NEXTEL Cup and Busch Series racing team

Steve Park

He joined Las Vegas-owned team Orleans Racing and piloted the #62 truck, vacated by Brendan Gaughan who was offered a ride in the #77 Kodak Nextel Cup car for Penske Racing.

XPress Telecom

XPress's sister company Bravo Telecom operates the same system in neighboring Saudi Arabia, one advantage of that is that customers of either network can place international push-to-talk calls, similar service is available between Sprint Nextel iDEN network subscribers and their counterparts in other countries such as Nextel in Mexico and Telus iDEN subscribers in Canada.


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