Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) provides wireless and wireline voice and data telecommunications services to customers in the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Sprint Nextel offers retail services under the Sprint, Nextel, Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, and Assurance Wireless brands and provides wholesale wireless access to a number of Mobile Virtual Network Operators in the United States. At the end of 2011, the Sprint wireless network served more than 55 million end users, giving Sprint Nextel approximately half the subscribers of either of its two larger rivals, AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless with about 100 million subscribers each.

Sprint Nextel's headquarters are located in Overland Park, Kansas, United States. Dan Hesse is the President and C.E.O.

Sprint is a tier 1 global Internet access service provider. Sprint Nextel is the Unites States' third largest long distance provider by subscribers.^{[citation needed]}

Sprint Nextel operates two separate wireless networks, one using the CDMA radio interface and one using the iDEN radio interface. In 2009, Sprint reached an agreement to outsource management of its wireless networks to Ericsson. In 2012 Sprint amended it's previously announced "Network Vision" plan which will decommission the iDen network, then refarm Sprint Nextel's spectrum assets, deploying updated CDMA network equipment and FDD LTE network equipment to increase coverage, network capacity and data throughput speeds while reducing base station complexity and power consumption.