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219. Sprint Nextel
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Financials: Latest Results
Rank: 219 (Previous rank: 176)
CEO: Daniel R. Hesse
Employees: 56,202
Address: 6200 Sprint Pkwy.
Overland Park, Kansas  66251
Country: U.S.
Website: www.sprint.com
  $ millions % change from 2007
Revenues 35,635.0 -11.2
Profits -2,796.0 -
Assets 58,252.0 —
Stockholders' equity 19,605.0 —
Profits as % of  
Revenues -7.8
Assets -4.8
Rank Company Global 500
rank		 Revenues
($ millions)
1 AT&T 29 124,028.0
2 Nippon Telegraph & Telephone 44 103,684.4
3 Verizon Communications 55 97,354.0
4 Deutsche Telekom 61 90,259.6
5 Telef�nica 66 84,814.7
6 France T�l�com 77 78,289.6
7 Vodafone 94 69,138.4
8 China Mobile Communications 99 65,015.1
9 Telecom Italia 166 45,118.1
10 Vivendi 207 37,165.9
11 BT 210 36,626.5
12 Sprint Nextel 219 35,635.0
13 KDDI 232 34,814.4
14 Comcast 237 34,256.0
15 China Telecommunications 263 31,813.6
16 Am�rica M�vil 273 31,012.5
17 Softbank 332 26,607.5
18 Telstra 410 22,371.1
19 China United Telecommunications 419 21,980.6
20 Royal KPN 434 21,372.7
21 DirecTV Group 469 19,693.0
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