Sprint Nextel Corporation, through its subsidiaries, offers a range of wireless and wireline communications products and services to individual consumers, businesses, government subscribers, and resellers in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It operates in two segments, Wireless and Wireline. The Wireless segment provides wireless data transmission services, including mobile productivity applications, such as Internet access, messaging, and email services; wireless photo and video offerings; location-based capabilities comprising asset and fleet management, dispatch services, and navigation tools; mobile entertainment applications; and local and long distance wireless voice services, as well as voicemail, call waiting, three-way calling, caller identification, directory assistance, and call forwarding services. This segment also provides voice and data services internationally through roaming arrangements; and customized design, development, implementation, and support for wireless services provided to large companies and government agencies, as well as sells accessories, such as carrying cases, hands-free devices, batteries, battery chargers, and other devices to subscribers, agents, and other third-party distributors for resale. The Wireline segment offers wireline voice and data communications, including domestic and international data communications using various protocols, such as multiprotocol label switching technologies and Internet protocol to other communications companies, and targeted business and consumer subscribers; and wholesale voice local and long distance services, and digital voice services to cable multiple system operators. This segment markets and sells its services directly. The company offers its wireless and wireline services under the Sprint, Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, and Assurance Wireless brands. Sprint Nextel Corporation was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas.

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