Registration No. 33-58488


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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                        Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 on
                                    Form S-3
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                            SPRINT NEXTEL CORPORATION
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

             Kansas                                     48-0457967
    (State of incorporation)               (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

        2001 Edmund Halley Drive, Reston, Virginia 20191, (703) 433-4000
    (Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code,
                  of registrant's principal executive offices)

                            Leonard J. Kennedy, Esq.
                                 General Counsel
                            Sprint Nextel Corporation
                            2001 Edmund Halley Drive
                             Reston, Virginia 20191
                            Telephone (703) 433-4000

            (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
                   including area code, of agent for service)

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        Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:

                                 Not Applicable

     If the only  securities  being  registered  on this Form are being  offered
pursuant to dividend or interest  reinvestment plans, please check the following
box. X
     If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on
a delayed or continuous  basis  pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of
1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest
reinvestment plans, check the following box. ____
     If this Form is filed to  register  additional  securities  for an offering
pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box
and list  the  Securities  Act  registration  statement  number  of the  earlier
effective registration statement for the same offering. ____
     If this Form is a  post-effective  amendment  filed pursuant to Rule 462(c)
under the  Securities  Act,  check the following box and list the Securities Act
registration  statement number of the earlier effective  registration  statement
for the same offering. ____
     If this Form is a registration  statement  pursuant to General  Instruction
I.D. or a  post-effective  amendment  thereto that shall become  effective  upon
filing with the  Commission  pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the  Securities  Act,
check the following box. ____
     If this Form is a  post-effective  amendment  to a  registration  statement
filed  pursuant  to  General  Instruction  I.D.  filed  to  register  additional
securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the
Securities Act, check the following box. ____

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     This Registration Statement as originally filed related to the offering of
1,500,000 shares of Sprint Corporation ("Sprint") Common Stock issuable under
the Automatic Dividend Reinvestment Plan. On November 23, 1998, following
approval by Sprint's shareholders, Sprint's Articles of Incorporation were
restated to reclassify each share of its Common Stock into one share of FON
Common Stock and one-half share of PCS Common Stock. The shares of PCS Common
Stock resulting from the reclassification were deregistered in 1998.

     At the time of the two-for-one split of the FON Common Stock in the 1999
second quarter, there were 1,163,514 shares of FON Common Stock remaining under
the Registration Statement. The two-for-one split of the FON Common Stock
increased the number of shares of FON Common Stock under the registration
statement to 2,327,028 shares.

     In connection with the merger of Nextel Communications, Inc. with and into
a subsidiary of Sprint in August 2005, Sprint amended its Articles of
Incorporation to change its name to Sprint Nextel Corporation and to redesignate
its FON Common Stock as common stock.

     For the foreseeable future, Sprint Nextel will not avail itself
of the option to issue original issue shares of common stock to the Plan.
Accordingly, Sprint Nextel hereby deregisters the shares of its common stock
registered under this Registration Statement which remain unsold.





                                     PART II

                     INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS


Item 16.  Exhibits.

Exhibit
Number    Exhibit


 24       Power of Attorney


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                                   SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the  requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant
certifies  that it has  reasonable  grounds  to  believe  that it meets  all the
requirements  for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Amendment No. 4 to
the  Registration  Statement  to be  signed on its  behalf  by the  undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Overland Park, State of Kansas, on the
29th day of September, 2006.

                                SPRINT NEXTEL CORPORATION


                             By:/s/ Michael T. Hyde
                                Michael T. Hyde, Assistant Secretary


      Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Amendment
No. 4 to the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in
the capacities and on the date indicated.

         Name                      Title                           Date

GARY D. FORSEE*       Chief Executive Officer and Director  )
                      (Principal Executive Officer)         )
                                                            )
                                                            )
PAUL SALEH*           Chief Financial Officer               )
                      (Principal Financial Officer)         )
                                                            )
                                                            )
W.G. ARENDT*          Senior Vice President and             )
                      Controller                            )
                      (Principal Accounting Officer)        )
                                                            )
                                                            ) September 29, 2006
TIMOTHY M. DONAHUE*   Chairman                              )
                                                            )
                                                            )
KEITH J. BANE*        Director                              )
                                                            )
                                                            )
GORDON BETHUNE*       Director                              )
                                                            )
                                                            )
FRANK M. DRENDEL*     Director                              )
                                                            )
                                                            )
JAMES H. HANCE, JR.*  Director                              )
                                                            )
                                                            )
V. JANET HILL*        Director                              )

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I. O. HOCKADAY, JR.*  Director                              )
                                                            )
                                                            )
WILLIAM E. KENNARD*   Director                              ) September 29, 2006
                                                            )
                                                            )
L. K. LORIMER*        Director                              )
                                                            )
                                                            )
WILLIAM SWANSON*      Director                              )




*    By:  /s/ Michael T. Hyde
          Michael T. Hyde, as Attorney-in-Fact
          pursuant to Power of Attorney filed
          with this Amendment


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                                  EXHIBIT INDEX


Exhibit
Number    Exhibit

24        Power of Attorney