Schaumburg firm wins court battle

CHICAGO -- An Illinois appellate court upheld a lower court's decision Monday that Sprint Nextel Corp. must stop selling Nextel-branded products in parts of the Midwest. Schaumburg-based iPCS Inc., a Sprint-branded affiliate, sued Sprint Nextel after the larger company acquired Nextel Communications Inc. in 2005, saying it was violating iPCS' exclusivity agreement by selling Nextel products in its territory. IPCS serves 629,900 wireless subscribers in portions of Illinois, Michigan, Iowa and Nebraska.