NII Holdings, Inc., a publicly held company based in Reston, Va., is a provider of mobile communication services for businesses and consumers in Latin America. NII Holdings, operating under the Nextel brand in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Peru and Chile, offers digital cellular voice services, data services, wireless Internet access and Nextel Direct Connect® and International Direct Connect℠, a digital two-way radio. NII Holdings, is a Fortune 500 and Barron’s 500 company, and has also been named one of the best places to work among multinationals in Latin America by the Great... Place to Work® Institute. NII trades on the NASDAQ market under the symbol NIHD As of March 31, 2012 NII has 10.9 million subscribers. NII Holdings, Inc. was launched in 1997 as the international business unit of Nextel Communications Inc. Following the establishment of operations in São Paulo, Brazil in 1997, the company expanded to Buenos Aires, Argentina; Mexico City, Mexico; Santiago, Chile; and Lima, Peru. In 2002, the company became public and changed its name to NII Holdings, Inc. Later in 2003, it began trading shares on the NASDAQ stock market as NIHD.
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| NASDAQ symbol: | NIHD |
| Founded: | 1997 |
| Headquarters: | Reston, Virginia |
| Annual revenue: | $4,269,380,000 |
| Net income: | $369,110,000 |
| Operating income: | $767,940,000 |
| Market cap: | $8,300,000,000 |
| Industries: | Radiotelephone Communications |