AT&T Wireless Customers Got Short End Of Stick: ReportCingular's business is going to drop after this report is out next year. The next customer who is going to be affected is former Nextel customers. According to the news, Nextel will be acquired by Sprint and both Sprint and Nextel use different technologies and very incompatible technologies. If Sprint don't solve this problem by the time they acquire Nextel, they are going see nice slide in their profits.