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Petey Pablo Fans Download Over 500,000 Music Tones to Sprint Phones

Posted on: Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 06:00 CDT

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Petey Pablo's fans have downloaded over 500,000 of his "Freek-A-Leek" and "Raise Up" Music Tones to their Sprint PCS Vision(SM) handsets -- personalizing their phones with ringers created from excerpts of actual songs. Today Sprint announced that the ringers "Freek-A-Leek" and "Raise Up" from Petey Pablo's albums Still Writing In My Diary: 2nd Entry and Diary of a Sinner: 1st Entry have gone "gold" according to music industry standards.

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"Music fans around the country have downloaded millions of Music Tones, personalizing their wireless phones and demonstrating their unique personalities," said Jeff Hallock, vice president - Consumer Product Marketing, Sprint. "The fact that ringers are going 'gold' by music industry standards shows their enormous popularity and the desire for personalization."

Sprint was the first U.S. carrier to offer ringers that sound like actual songs with the introduction of Music Tones. Sprint offers more than 2,000 ringers, including polyphonic, animated and voice ringers, and more than 1,000 Music Tones. In 2003, Sprint sold more than 20 million ringers and screen savers on its Sprint PCS Vision service.

Sprint PCS Vision customers can purchase and download ringers directly from their Sprint PCS Vision Phones or at http://www.sprintpcs.com/ . To access ringers on the phone, select Menu/ Downloads/ Ringers and Get New. From there, customers can browse the more than one thousand titles available from Sprint.

Sprint PCS Vision includes services that allow customers to take and receive pictures from select Sprint PCS Phones; browse the Internet at speeds faster than most dial-up connections; check personal and corporate e-mail; watch clips and stream audio for news and music; and download polyphonic, animated and voice ringers and full-color, graphically-rich games and screen savers, all on the enhanced Sprint Nationwide PCS Network.

About Sprint

Sprint is a global integrated communications provider serving more than 26 million customers in over 100 countries. With more than $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: Kathleen Dunleavy of Sprint, +1-212-450-9629, orkathleen.dunleavy@mail.sprint.com

Web site: http://www.sprint.com/http://www.sprintpcs.com/

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