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unusual facts about Sprint Nextel



Appleseed Foundation

The current co-chairs are Eric Koenig, retired from Microsoft and Susan Haller of Sprint Nextel.

Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless

Brew OS is used by Sprint Nextel, metroPCS, Cricket Wireless, U.S. Cellular, Verizon, Syringa Wireless, and AT&T (in the HTC Freestyle) in the US and by the 3 network in much of Europe, the UK and Australia on many mobile phones produced especially for their network.

Brine Lacrosse

It was developed and published by SkyZone Entertainment and presented by Brine, Corp. It is currently available for AT&T, Sprint, Cincinnati Bell and T-Mobile.

Craftsmen Industries

Craftsmen has built vehicles for brands including Anheuser-Busch InBev, Adidas, Burger King, Charmin, Crown Royal, Lowe's, McDonald's, Gatorade, Sprint, The History Channel, Toyota, Xbox, US Cellular and Pringles.

Craig Cutler

He has photographed ads for a wide range of clients, including Starbucks, Vanguard, Xbox 360, Mobil, Microsoft, and Sprint.

Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company

International voice traffic is carried for GT&T by Verizon; international collect calling is provided through agreements with AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, Call Home Telecom, Bell Canada, Telus and British Telecom.

HTC Hero

The Sprint, Cellular South, Cellcom, Bluegrass Cellular, Manitoba Telecom Services, NTelos, and Cox Wireless version of the HTC Hero is different from those that are sold in Asia, Canada and Europe.

IOCOM

Founded in 1998 by Kevin Gleason and Michael Galich, and has an advisory board which includes Edward Zander, former Sprint Nextel executive John Garcia and Ian Foster Though based in Chicago, services are offered worldwide.

Kinoma

Additionally, Kinoma licenses its core technologies for embedded/OEM products including Sling Media, Sprint Mobile TV, and Sony among others.

Linda Lorimer

Lorimer was formerly a director of Sprint, Centel and First Colony Life Insurance Company, and she currently serves on the Board of McGraw Hill Financial, having served as the Lead Director for five years.

Paul Thelen

At Mercer, Thelen worked on developing targeted customer marketing solutions and customer database mining programs for several companies including First Interstate Bank (acquired by Wells Fargo) and Sprint Telecommunications.

Superfad

Some of the most well-known campaigns Superfad has produced include Visa's 2008 Summer Olympics campaign, PlayStation 3's "Universe of Entertainment", Honda's "Crave", Durex's "Get It On", Diet Pepsi's "56 States", and Sprint's "What's Happening Now".

SuperXclusivo

Within a week, sixteen sponsors had removed their commercials from the show's timeslot, including Aquafresh, AT&T, Borden, Claro Puerto Rico, Triple-S, Sprint, and Walmart.

Thomas J. Campana, Jr.

On 12 September 2007, they filed patent infringement lawsuits against AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Nextel, and T-Mobile.

TruConnect Mobile

TruConnect Mobile is a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) that sells 3G mobile data service for laptops and tablets such as the Apple iPad and the Kindle Fire via the Sprint wireless network.

WiMAX

HTC and Sprint Nextel released the second WiMAX enabled mobile phone, the EVO 4G, March 23, 2010 at the CTIA conference in Las Vegas.

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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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.

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.

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.