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Sprint Receives 3G CDMA Industry Achievement Award for Innovative Mobile Game Development

Posted on: Thursday, 30 September 2004, 06:00 CDT

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sprint has received the 3G CDMA Industry Achievement Award for Innovative Mobile Game Development for the launch of Game Lobby.

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The CDMA Development Group presented the award at the CDMA Americas Congress, taking place this week at the Miami Beach Convention Center. The 3G CDMA Industry Achievement Awards recognize significant contributions by companies and individuals towards the advancement of wireless technology.

Game Lobby, architected, built and managed by M7 Networks Inc., launched in March as the first nationwide virtual mobile community for gamers to meet, compete, post game scores and recommend games.

"Sprint is pleased to be recognized by the industry for a gaming service that is both innovative and very popular with our customers," said Jason Ford, general manager - Games, Sprint. "The ability to play, share and compete over the air makes the Game Lobby unique in the mobile industry. Sprint is committed to developing other gaming innovations that will further enhance the gaming experience."

Some of the key features of Game Lobby include:

-- Single user identity across all Game Lobby games and publishers

-- Centralized listing of high score postings across all Game Lobby games

regardless of gamer publisher

-- Ability for users to manage their identity and determine what

information is stored in their profile -- from pictures to favorite

games

-- Flexibility and convenience for players to view and modify information

via the wireless game, fixed Internet and wireless Web

-- Extended game functionality, including uploading of scores; viewing

leaderboards; and the ability to meet, chat with and taunt other

players

-- Buddy Lists for challenging and tracking friends

Sprint announced 5 million Sprint PCS Vision(SM) customers through the end of second quarter 2004 and leads the industry in adoption of advanced wireless data services. 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 email; 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: Laura Tigges of Sprint, +1-913-794-3604,laura.j.tigges@mail.sprint.com

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

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