Call forwarding lets you forward incoming calls to your phone to another telephone number. Most companies offer a wide range of call forwarding options, at varying monthly charges.

Multiple sources are reporting that Sprint Nextel has agreed to sell the Nextel iDEN network to the U.S. Department of Defense for an undisclosed amount. The DOD will use the network for a unified communications framework for military and civilian emergency personnel.

A federal judge in Boston on Monday granted an injunction against Boston Communications Group, Inc., which provides customer management solutions for prepaid wireless companies. The injunction says that companies using BCGI’s solutions for their prepaid wireless programs, including Cingular Wireless, must stop accepting new customers and shut down their services within 90 days.

While major wireless carriers report that service in New Orleans has been restored to “normal or near-normal” conditions, owners of wireless phones with New Orleans (504) telephone numbers tell a different story.

About 1,000 Sprint Nextel employees walked off the job Monday in Hickory, N.C.; Bluff City, Tenn.; Evansville, Ind.; and Ocala, Fla.

A report from the Center for Public Integrity reveals that the former Baby Bell telephone companies spent $56.8 million on political contributions over six years and at least $77.8 million on lobbying over two years.

Sprint Nextel, which does not have a VoIP product on the market, announced that it has filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, alleging that Vonage Holdings, Inc., Voiceglobe Holdings, Inc., and theglobe.com, Inc., infringed on seven patents held by Sprint Nextel.

Anonymous call rejection lets you block incoming calls from people who have chosen to block the delivery of their Caller ID information. In most areas, it’s included with Caller ID service.

BellSouth continues to struggle to restore telephone service to over 164,000 customers in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, even as SBC and Verizon have sent hundreds of their own technicians to help out with repairs.

When the Sprint Nextel merger completed, Nextel customer Clark Howard figured he could save some money by switching to Sprint PCS. But the change didn’t exactly go according to plan.