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Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3)
Registration No. 333-37102
5 1/4% Convertible Senior Notes due 2010 CUSIP No. 65332VAY9
NEXTEL COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT DATED JUNE 29, 2000
TO PROSPECTUS DATED JUNE 16, 2000
The selling security holders table on pages 18 - 22 of the prospectus,
as supplemented, is hereby further amended to update the information to include
the following entities as selling security holders in the prospectus and to list
their respective amounts of 5 1/4% convertible senior notes due 2010:
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Convertible Notes Common Stock
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Principal Principal
Amount of Amount of Number of Number of
Convertible Convertible Shares Shares
Name of Selling Security Holder Notes Owned Notes Offered Owned Offered
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Clinton Riverside Convertible Portfolio
Limited 2,450,000 2,450,000 -0- -0-
ECT Investments, Inc. 4,000,000 4,000,000 -0- -0-
Gaia Offshore Master Fund Ltd. 2,000,000 2,000,000 -0- -0-
GLG Market Neutral Fund 34,500,000 34,500,000 -0- -0-
Goldman Sachs and Company 263,000 263,000 951 -0-
HT Insight Convertible Securities Fund 500,000 500,000 -0- -0-
LLT Limited 685,000 685,000 -0- -0-
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 110,000 110,000 -0- -0-
Parker-Hannifin Corporation 191,000 191,000 -0- -0-
ProMutual 402,000 402,000 -0- -0-
Putnam Asset Allocation Funds-Balanced
Portfolio 759,000 759,000 -0- -0-
Putnam Asset Allocation Funds-Conservative
Portfolio 480,000 480,000 -0- -0-
Putnam Balanced Retirement Fund 208,000 208,000 -0- -0-
Putnam Convertible Income-Growth Trust 22,500,000 22,500,000 -0- -0-
Putnam Convertible Opportunities and Income
Trust 286,000 286,000 -0- -0-
Quattro Fund, LLC 400,000 400,000 -0- -0-
University of Rochester 103,000 103,000 -0- -0-
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