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If I understand correctly, "Nextel" users may make walkie-talkie style calls to other Nextel users, but must access the "Sprint" network if they want to make normal cell phone calls to other brands of cell phone. If the article is only referring to the Nextel network being open, that would make sense: around here, Nextel is almost exclusively business-based. Couriers, and other traveling workers, use them to call the home office while they are out in the field. Most people wouldn't be calling coworkers when there is a catastrophe, they'd be trying to call friends and family, which may mean they were counted in Sprint's network problems instead.
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