Nextel
Administrator posted in ATT/Cingular on April 22nd, 2005
Nextel Communications, a FORTUNE 200 company based in Reston, Va., is a leading provider of fully integrated wireless communications services and has built the largest guaranteed all-digital wireless network in the country covering thousands of communities across the United States. Today, 95 percent of FORTUNE 500 companies are Nextel customers.
Nextel and Nextel Partners, Inc. currently serve 297 of the top 300 U.S. markets where approximately 261 million people live or work.
Nextel is traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol NXTL. Nextel Partners is a separate company traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol NXTP.
Domestic Revenue
$13.4 billion (2004)
Domestic Digital Subscribers
16.2 million (Q4 2004)
Nextel: 15 million subscribers
Boost Mobile™: 1.2 million customers
Total Employees
Approximately 19,000 in the U.S.
Technology and Service Differentiation
Nextel uses a packet-based platform, the integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN™) technology, developed by Motorola. This all-digital technology provides exceptional sound and transmission quality, using state-of-the-art methods that deliver these unparalleled Nextel services:
- Digital Cellular
Customers experience crystal clear calls and guaranteed message delivery in a secure environment, no matter where they travel within the Nextel National Network.
- Walkie-Talkie Services
Direct Connect®, Nationwide Direct ConnectSM and International Direct ConnectSM services let customers get right through to business associates, family and friends without placing a phone call — no matter if they are located across the street, the country or the continent.
- Wireless Data Services
Nextel customers have more ways than ever to stay in touch no matter where they are. They can access the wireless web, e-mail, instant messages, text messages and multimedia messages. They can also customize their phones with Java™ applications, wallpapers, ring tones, games and alerts with sports, news and weather information.
Product Innovation
Nextel offers products and services that are first, better and different so that its customers can be more productive in their professional and personal lives.