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National Enquirer and Weekly World News Wireless Editions Now Available to Sprint PCS Vision Customers

Posted on: Monday, 23 February 2004, 06:00 CST

Tabloid News Gives Sprint Wireless Customers Instant Access to

Major Scoops and Worldwide Exclusives

¶ Sprint (NYSE:FON)(NYSE:PCS) and American Media, Inc. today announced the wireless launch of America's best-loved tabloids -- The National Enquirer and Weekly World News -- on Sprint PCS Vision. The new mobile Tabloid News service will feature daily updates of breaking stories from both The National Enquirer and The Weekly World News in a multimedia format. For the first time, wireless subscribers can now access their favorite tabloids right from their PCS Vision Phones. ¶ Each day, subscribers can look forward to breaking news, features, and celebrity scoops from the National Enquirer, plus new stories from the Weekly World News, presented as only that unique style of journalism can tell it. The National Enquirer delivers investigative news, gossip, secrets, and scandals that can't be found anywhere else. The Weekly World News, America's most unusual newspaper with its host of hilarious characters like Bat Boy and Bigfoot, gives wireless customers reporting straight out of a parallel universe. ¶ Tabloid News, powered by 1KTV, is a downloadable J2ME application available on select Java-enabled PCS Vision Phones, and keeps wireless customers up to date anywhere on the enhanced Sprint Nationwide PCS Network for $3.95 a month.

¶ About American Media, Inc.

¶ American Media, Inc. is one of the largest media companies in the U.S. The company publishes six of the 14 best-selling weekly magazines, including The National Enquirer and Star. AMI also owns Weider Publications, the leading publisher of health and fitness magazines, including Shape, Men's Fitness, Muscle & Fitness, Muscle & Fitness Hers, Flex, Fit Pregnancy, and Natural Health. The company also publishes the best-selling country music magazine Country Weekly; a Latino entertainment magazine, !Mira!; two automotive magazines, AMI's Auto World and NOPI Street Performance Compact; and more mini-mags and digests. In addition to print properties, AMI owns Distribution Services, Inc., the country's #1 in-store magazine merchandising company.

¶ About V-Star

¶ V-Star (www.1ktv.com) is a Los Angeles-based technology and content conversion company that enables the delivery of consumer-preferred, high-quality, television-like programming to the emerging wireless infotainment industry. V-Star's breakthrough 1KTV technology delivers instant, on-demand television-quality news, information, and entertainment programming to new Java-enabled wireless phones.

¶ About Sprint

¶ Sprint is a global integrated communications provider serving more than 26 million customers in over 100 countries. With approximately 67,000 employees worldwide and over $26 billion in annual revenues in 2003, 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 and an award-winning Tier 1 Internet backbone. Sprint provides local communications services in 39 states and the District of Columbia and operates the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide PCS wireless network in the United States. For more information, visit www.sprint.com.

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