US top 3 mobile provider.(NYSE:S)

Sprint Nextel Corporation offers wireless and wireline communications products and services to consumers, businesses, and government users in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Wireless segment

-provides wireless mobile voice and data transmission services on networks that utilize CDMA and iDEN technologies,as well as offers fourth generation wireless services
Wireless data communications services -comprise Internet access and messaging, email services, wireless photo and video offerings, and mobile entertainment applications, as well as asset and fleet management, dispatch services, and navigation tools; and wireless voice communications services include basic local and long distance wireless voice services, voicemail, call waiting, three way calling, caller identification, directory assistance, call forwarding, speakerphone, and push-to-talk services, as well as roaming services.

This segment sells accessories, such as carrying cases, hands-free devices, batteries, and battery chargers, as well as devices and accessories to agents and other third-party distributors for resale. In addition, it markets its post-paid services under the Sprint and Nextel names; prepaid services under the Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, and Assurance Wireless names.

Wireline segment

-provides wireline voice and data communications services, including domestic and international data communications using various protocols, such as multiprotocol label switching technologies, Internet protocol (IP), asynchronous transfer mode, IP-based frame relay, managed network services, voice over IP, and traditional voice services. It also offers wide-area network and long distance services, as well as operates an all-digital long distance and Tier 1 IP network.

Sprint Nextel was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas.
The Overland Park, Kan.-based company has struggled since acquiring Nextel Communications Inc. in 2005 as technical problems, poor efforts to consolidate the two companies and stiff competition for feature-rich phones has led many subscribers to switch to competing services.

Annual Balance Sheet data @31 December 2009.

Total Assets =$55,424,000

Total Liabilities =$37,329,000

Total Stockholder equity=$18,095,000.###

###Common Stock=$6,015,000+Retained Earnings=($33,779,000)+Treasury Stock($582,000)+Capital Surplus=$46,793,000+Other stock equity=($352,000)

Net Tangible Assets=($5,367,000)

Cash Flow:-$128,000

Nett Income Accrual=($2,436,000)

Major shareholders @30 September 2010:-

1) DODGE & COX INC==225,816,518==7.65%
2) Bank of New York Mellon Corporation==191,169,698==6.48%
3) VANGUARD GROUP, INC. (THE)==108,484,047==3.675%
4) STATE STREET CORPORATION==106,319,743==3.60%
5) GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC==97,682,150==3.31%
6) JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY==91,560,088==3.10%
7) BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A.==76,228,606==2.58%
8) FRANKLIN RESOURCES, INC==72,208,465==2.45%
10) PRICE (T.ROWE) ASSOCIATES INC==70,031,700==2.37%
11) FMR LLC==411,626,857==13.94%

Top Mutual Funds Holdrs:-

1) DODGE & COX STOCK FUND==$131,825,739==4.47%
2) Fidelity Series Large Cap Value Fund==56,547,510==1.92
3) FIDELITY OTC PORTFOLIO==52,041,756==1.76
4)FIDELITY CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND==46,397,699==1.57
5) DODGE & COX BALANCED FUND==37,874,100==1.28
6) TEMPLETON GROWTH FUND, INC.==31,856,370==1.08
7) VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND==31,838,593==1.08
8) FIDELITY MAGELLAN FUND INC==28,000,000==0.95
9) VANGUARD 500 INDEX FUND==27,122,144==0.92
10) SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust==22,517,066==0.76

Company activity:-

Lately it plans to sell a Kyocera Corp phone with two screens and Google Inc's software, in an effort stand out in a crowded U.S. smartphone field where Apple Inc gets much of the consumer attention.

Sprint Nextel Corporation.(NYSE:S)-Technology

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Currently it seems that there are profit taking activities within the range of January's candlestick body.

It has completed covering the January's full body and closes at half the January's body yesterday.

The upper shadow has yet to be played again but meantime caution is the game as it's a bearish spin eyeing on the MAV support line.Anything below MAV support line level is a good entry point.

Yesterday High:$4.49 Low:$4.35 Closing:$4.40 Turnover:5,3828,148 shares.

Tracking the Dow,Monday,7/2/11.The Dow is 9 market days to index futures/options expiry.
9:30am:--Bullish 30 points gap up.The 12,000 mark psycological level has brought back investors confidence.

10:30am:--Session high.No sign of any pullback to fill up opening gap.Egypt tension has been reduced.

11:30am:--Morning session high,bearish engulfing.News of mergers and acquisitions indicated attractive stock valuations.

12:30noon:--Pullback to bull pivot support level.Struggling U.S. Internet company AOL
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1:30pm:--Another hit at the bull pivot spport,bears rampaging.The price of copper hit a record on concerns about supply and as economic data recently boosted the outlook for demand.

2:30pm:--Bull pivot support breached.News that computer hackers had infiltrated the operator of the Nasdaq Stock Exchange could be another blow to investor confidence, as Wall Street works to repair an image with investors and traders dented by last year's "flash crash."

3:30pm:--Bears held back slightly above MAV support line.Dragonfly doji helping a rebound.

4:00pm:--Bearish profit taking.A spike in oil prices might become a headwind for the global economy and hurt equity markets.

Index is poised for a pullback as Friday's bullish hammer is an early sign.If not for the ongoing Merger and Acqusition news,the market will be drifting within a tight zone.The bull pivot support line will be the level of a correction.

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