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• Federal regulators are giving Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) the approval to spin off and merge its new WiMax wireless broadband network with that of Clearwire Corp.
  
  (Nasdaq: CLWR). In a 5-0 vote Tuesday, the FCC approved a plan to combine Sprint's Xohm network with Clearwire's WiMax-like network.
  
  Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) and a group of cable companies are investing billions into the $14.6 billion venture, which will have the Clearwire's name.
• Corn Products International, Inc.

Tue, Oct 21, 2008 Following its rivals, Sprint Nextel Corp. will soon begin trimming the fees customers face for canceling their cell phone service early.

Telecom stocks are emblematic of how skittish investors are over the tech sector today. Some telecom giants are taking a beating over reduced consumer demand for their products, both here in the U.S. and abroad (especially around the once-robust Pacific Rim).

Here's a quick snapshot . . . AT&T Inc fell $.34 or 1.1 percent, to $31.22. Qwest rose $.06 or 1.6 percent, to $3.71.

Sprint Nextel rose $.10 or 1.4 percent, to $7.24. Verizon fell $.52 or 1.5 percent, to $34.21. AT&T and Apple are the stocks that interests me.

Apple - whose iPhone is carried exclusively by AT&T -- has had a...

The hurricane bearing down on the Gulf Coast could be a test for the country's wireless carriers, which faced criticism and a regulatory push after Hurricane Katrina took out networks.

Sprint Nextel Corp. spokeswoman Stephanie Vinge-Walsh said the company's Emergency Response Team, with trucks that can act as cell towers, was 'caravaning down, military-style,' to the Gulf Coast on Friday.

(August 22, 2008) - All small business owners are invited to attend a free Webcast. This interactive Webcast, “Customer Loyalty: How to get and keep customers .

. . for life,” is hosted by Sprint and features popular business speaker and author, Dr. Tony Alessandra.

Small business owners will learn tips to building their business by turning customers into business apostles who “preach the gospel” according to your company.

Dr.

The wireless carrier cited severance and other costs for its second-quarter loss, but the company said it had slowed the loss of customers.

Wireless carrier Sprint Nextel says it swung to a second-quarter loss on severance and other costs. But it also says it's slowing the loss of customers.

Comments filed with FCC over whether some top cable operators, Google should be able to team up with Sprint Nextel, Clearwire to provide new WiMax-delivered broadband service.

StreetInsider.com Notable Mergers and Acquisitions of the Day:

• GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), and Vital Signs, Inc.
  
  (NASDAQ: VITL) entered into a definitive merger agreement for GE to acquire Vital Signs. Under the terms of the agreement, shareholders of Vital Signs will receive $74.50 per share in cash for each Vital Signs share they own.
  
  Shares of VITL closed at $58 per share yesterday.
• Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) announced an agreement to sell approximately 3,300 towers to TowerCo for approximately $670 million in cash.

The Federal Communications Commission agreed not to hold Sprint Nextel Corp. and public-safety agencies to the June 26 deadline regarding portions of spectrum involved in an 800 MHz rebanding effort designed to ...