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Sprint, Nextel spinoff would be among Kansas City, Mo.'s largest public firms.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2004

The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 16--KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- It doesn't even have a name yet, but a spinoff from the Sprint Nextel merger already would qualify as the Kansas City area's second-largest publicly traded company.

As part of the Sprint Nextel deal, Sprint's traditional local telephone business would be spun off to shareholders of Sprint Nextel soon after the merger is completed sometime in the second half of next year.

The new local phone company would have annual sales of about $6 billion. The company would have about 22,000 employees in the United States, and at least 2,000 employees here.

That would put the local phone company in the No. 2 spot behind Yellow Roadway, which is...

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