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Sprint Launches Sprint Business Mobility Framework(SM) to Help Businesses Locate and Share Information With Mobile Workers

Posted on: Monday, 16 May 2005, 09:00 CDT

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., May 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sprint announced today the national market launch of Sprint Business Mobility Framework, a new solution to meet advanced mobility requirements of business customers by extending corporate applications to the hands of mobile workers and expanding the power of those applications with location-based services, messaging and geographic notifications.

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Sprint Business Mobility Framework, adds to the already robust Sprint mobility portfolio aimed at driving improvements in productivity, operating costs and customer satisfaction for business customers. Businesses can now enable new or enhance existing applications through Sprint Business Mobility Framework to locate and track mobile workers or assets nationwide. In addition, companies can direct workers across geographic lines, provide text or voice messages, and share critical wireless data information with workers.

The comprehensive portfolio of capabilities includes:

-- Presence - provides a status indicating whether a mobile device is on

or off.

-- Cell Sector Location - provides the latitude & longitude of a mobile

device's CDMA cell sector, along with accuracy estimate; accuracy is

dependent on conditions and cell tower density.

-- Precision Location - provides the latitude & longitude of a device

along with accuracy estimate; depending on conditions, accuracy can be

within 5 meters.

-- SMS Alerts (Text Messages) - enables application server to send a text

message to a device.

-- Voice Alerts - enables an application server to call any phone and

play a message using Sprint text-to-speech technology or via a

prerecorded audio file.

-- Presence Notifications - allows application to be alerted when a

device is turned on or off.

-- Location Notifications - allows application to be alerted when a

device crosses a specified geo-fence boundary.

Examples of solutions enabled by Sprint Business Mobility Framework, using any or all of the location, messaging and notification services, include:

-- Field Service Automation - provides mobile technicians with access to

software designed to automate core business processes and coordinate

work orders.

-- Field Force Management - allows businesses to reduce expenses

associated with transport and delivery of products/services through

improved monitoring/management of mobile employees. Also included in

this category are Sales Force Automation (SFA) solutions which extend

customer relationship management (CRM) software to sales personnel for

presales and post-sales activities in an organization.

-- Fleet Management - monitor and manage assets and equipment and

include location services; work order management and dispatch

functions.

-- Asset Management and Tracking - monitor and track high-value assets

using specialized devices.

The launch of Sprint Business Mobility Framework continues a series of "wireless firsts" by Sprint for the business market. Recently, the company launched Sprint Managed Mobility(SM) Services and Sprint Extended Workplace(SM), both of which built on Sprint's strategy to encourage business adoption of wireless and eliminated the boundaries between wireless and wireline services through more integrated offers. Additionally, Sprint is the first wireless provider to offer a nationwide Service Level Agreement on its wireless voices services (launched in August 2004) and wireless data services (launched March 2005).

"Sprint Business Mobility Framework is an industry first as Sprint has opened its network to allow partners, application providers and customers the ability to utilize the intelligence in our network to create and enhance mobility solutions," said David Owens, vice president marketing - Strategic Markets, Sprint Business Solutions. "More than ever, businesses are seeking tools to extend existing and deploy new applications to their mobile workforces. By utilizing our framework, enterprises will realize benefits that are immediate and tangible. A simple example is providing location-based information to firms so they can eliminate downtime of their field employee by knowing exactly where they are and how to most effectively deploy them based on the resource location and workload."

"Businesses continue to demand productive and secure wireless connectivity between mobile workers and the enterprise," said Eugene Signorini, Director, Wireless/Mobile Enterprise Solutions for Yankee Group. "Sprint Business Mobility Framework is another tool to help businesses realize new efficiencies gained by advanced mobile communications and the simplicity of deploying applications for a mobile workplace."

How does Sprint Business Mobility Framework work?

Sprint Business Mobility Framework provides an open-standards network gateway interface to the Sprint Nationwide PCS Network, enabling fast and seamless integration of applications with Sprint network services. Leading application development platforms already integrated with Sprint Business Mobility Framework include those from IBM and Microsoft, with future development platforms to include ESRI. In addition to the partnerships, Sprint has certified leading mobile applications for purchase from a variety of third-party application vendors. Completing this integration and certification front makes it easier for businesses to enhance and mobile-enable their applications, reducing implementation time and costs.

To learn more about Sprint Business Mobility Framework, visit http://www.sprint.com/business .

Sprint's deployment of broadband EV-DO (Evolution Data Optimized) technology across its wireless network will allow for even more robust applications to be deployed and more substantial data to be shared via Sprint Business Mobility Framework. EV-DO will accelerate mobile device data speeds up to 10 times faster than on today's network, enabling LAN-like access to critical information. This means more powerful applications can be shared across wireless and wireline networks - a distinct Sprint advantage.

About Sprint

Sprint offers an extensive range of innovative communication products and solutions, including global IP, wireless, local and multiproduct bundles. A Fortune 100 company with more than $27 billion in annual revenues in 2004, Sprint is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying state- of-the-art network technologies, including the United States' first nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network; an award-winning Tier 1 Internet backbone; and one of the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide wireless networks in the United States. For more information, visit http://www.sprint.com/mr .

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Sprint

CONTACT: Stephanie Taliaferro of Sprint, +1-913-794-3658,stephanie.c.taliaferro@mail.sprint.com

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Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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