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Reston is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, within the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The population was 58,404, at the 2010 Census and 56,407 at the 2000 census. An internationally-known planned community founded in 1964, it was built with the goal of... revolutionizing post-World War II concepts of land use and residential/corporate development in American suburbia. The Reston Town Center is home to many businesses, with high-rise and low-rise commercial buildings that are home to shops, restaurants, offices, a cinema, and a hotel. It comprises over 1,000,000 square feet of office space. Municipal, government-like services are provided by the nonprofit Reston Association, which is supported by a per-household fee for all residential properties in Reston. The land on which Reston sits was initially owned by Lord Fairfax during the 18th century. C.A. Wiehle bought the land later in the 1880s. He died after construction of several buildings. His sons did not share his vision, and sold the land to A.
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Sprint Nextel Corporation is an American telecommunications company based in Overland Park, Kansas. The company owns and operates Sprint, which has 55 million customers, making it the third largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, behind Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility. Sprint Nextel also owns separate subsidiaries Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile USA, which offers prepay wireless services under the Sprint Prepaid... Group division. Sprint Nextel also owns 18% of NII Holdings, which operates under the Nextel brand in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru. Sprint is a global Internet carrier and makes up a portion of the Internet backbone. In the United States, the company is the third largest long distance provider and owns a majority of Clearwire, which operates the largest wireless broadband network. Prior to 2005, the company was known as Sprint Corporation. The company changed its name to Sprint Nextel when it acquired Nextel Communications that year. The company continues to operate using two separate wireless network technologies, CDMA and iDEN .
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