Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3)
Registration No. 333-69312
6% Convertible Senior Notes due 2011 CUSIP No. 65332VBC6

NEXTEL COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT DATED FEBRUARY 22, 2002
TO PROSPECTUS DATED NOVEMBER 15, 2001

     The selling security holders table on pages 18 — 20 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 6% convertible senior notes due 2011:

	Convertible Notes				Common Stock
	Principal Amount of		Principal Amount of
	Convertible Notes		Convertible Notes		Number of Shares		Number of Shares
Name of Selling Security Holder	Owned		Offered		Owned		Offered
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein Grantche		1,775,000		1,775,000		119,300		-0-
Microsoft Corporation — High Income		1,950,000		1,950,000		-0-		-0-
OCM High Income Convertible Limited Partnership		275,000		275,000		-0-		-0-