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Re: Completely off-topic: Sprint Nextel's new logo ....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Woodfield)
Fri Aug 26 11:34:07 2005
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:32:44 -0400
From: Chris Woodfield <rekoil@semihuman.com>
To: Jeff Cole <jeff@flambe.org>
Cc: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>,
"Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050825192504.GI30289@novylen.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I did see an article a few days ago (can't find the url now) claiming that
Sprint is planning on focusing purely on wireless and spinning off their
"traditional" telco/internet operations. I fully expect the spun-off
company to be acquired shortly thereafter (paging Dick Notebaert...)
-C
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 03:25:04PM -0400, Jeff Cole wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:57:45AM -0700, william(at)elan.net wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> >
> > >http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000243055975/
> >
> > Isn't that only for Sprint Wireless and has no effect or rest of Sprint?
>
> There are three logos for the new company. One says just Sprint, one
> says "Sprint, together with Nextel" and one says "Nextel, together with
> Sprint". The official name of the new company is "Sprint Nextel
> Corporation", or so says my last check from them. (Not laid off, went
> elsewhere). The "go to market" name is Sprint.
>
> Jeff
> former Nextel worker bee
>
