Om Malik, who not only knows more about the business of wireless communication than any given Apache fork-load of hacky tech bloggers, but actually cares about it, has his initial thoughts and analysis of the Sprint Nextel (“Sextel”) merger up on GigaOm. Important for we (l)users in the field is word that Sprint Nextel will be using CDMA and EV-DO, phasing out Nextel’s iDEN by 2007, but that Motorola will be building a dual-mode phone to operate on both networks in the interim.
Sprint, Nextel aka Sextel is done [GigaOm]
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Verizon Sliding Into Sprint/Nextel Merger [Gizmodo]
Sprint Buys Nextel [Gizmodo]
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/index.php#verizon-sliding-into-sprintnextel-merger-027603
