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Sprint Offers Universities and Colleges Opportunity to Ring Up Revenue With Sprint University Wireless Access Plan

Posted on: Tuesday, 27 July 2004, 06:00 CDT

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Sprint announced today availability of its Sprint University Wireless Access plan, an innovative way for universities and colleges to generate revenue while giving faculty, staff and students convenient and cost-effective access to premium wireless service plans.

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Under the program, schools offer select Sprint PCS rate plans, to faculty, staff and students and collect service-plan fees directly from the users, often as a supplementary charge with tuition. Plans include those with ample anytime minutes, free nationwide long-distance, free roaming, unlimited night and weekend minutes, and unlimited Sprint PCS to PCS Calling(SM). Customers can also stay in touch and up to date through powerful Sprint PCS Vision(SM) applications including:

-- Unlimited Picture Mail(SM) -- Take, upload and send an unlimited

number of pictures. Share rich, full-color pictures when words just

won't do. With Picture Mail, you can take digital pictures, upload

them through your Sprint PCS Vision Picture Phone, and send them to

coworkers and loved ones at email addresses or other Sprint PCS Vision

Phones.

-- Unlimited Web -- Stay informed on the go with full-color graphic

versions of popular Internet sites.

-- Unlimited Messaging -- Send and receive email, exchange Web-based text

messages, or joint a chat room -- all on select Sprint PCS Vision

Phones.

"More and more students are coming to college with a wireless phone and not using campus-provided landlines, which in the past have provided a significant source of revenue for schools," said Tim Donahue, vice president - Enterprise Marketing, Sprint Business Solutions. "The Sprint University Wireless Access program is a win-win for everyone in a campus community. Faculty, staff and students get affordable access to cutting-edge wireless services from Sprint and schools can generate revenue while providing a shared, relevant means for their community to communicate. As a valued and trusted partner to institutions of higher education, Sprint is the best- positioned telecommunications provider to provide integrated wireline and wireless solutions, enabling universities to expand their reach and deliver a unique and state-of-the-art campus experience."

Sprint is dedicated to providing cutting-edge, cost-effective solutions that help institutions of higher education improve and expand education and research capabilities, generate revenue and improve the ability to attract the best faculty, staff and students. Sprint has been recognized for its leadership in vertical markets overall with the 2004 Frost & Sullivan Telecom Services Vertical Company of the Year Award. For more information about Sprint Business Solutions for education, please visit http://www.sprint.com/education .

About Sprint

Sprint is a global integrated communications provider serving more than 26 million customers in over 100 countries. With approximately 63,000 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 http://www.sprint.com/ .

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Sprint

CONTACT: Amy Schiska of Sprint, +1-913-794-2947,amy.k.schiska@mail.sprint.com

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