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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 AUGUST 3, 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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<S> <C> <C> <C> <C>
Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation 45,000 45,000 -0- -0-
Goldman Sachs and Company (1) 300,000 300,000 -0- -0-
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith, Inc. (1) 300,000 300,000 -0- -0-
OCM Convertible Trust 4,175,000 4,175,000 -0- -0-
Spear, Leeds & Kellogg 1,000,000 1,000,000 -0- -0-
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(1) These entities and/or their affiliates have provided, and may from time to
time provide, investment banking services to Nextel, including, among other
things, acting as lead and/or co-manager with respect to offerings of debt and
equity securities.
