The University of Arizona Partners with Sprint to Offer Discounted Pricing Plans and Eco-Friendly Products and Programs to Students, Staff

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(Business Wire)--
Universities across the nation use Sprint`s (NYSE:S) communications solutions,
available on the NOW Network, to increase productivity, reduce costs and offer a
unique learning experience to their students and staff. Today, more than ever
before, universities are also making environmental responsibility a key factor
in a wide range of strategic considerations, including their increasingly
sophisticated information technology needs. As a result, Sprint is teaming with
educational leaders such as The University of Arizona (UA) to deliver
eco-friendly communications products.

"In addition to adopting new technology, universities play a vital leadership
role in raising environmental awareness and in adopting sustainable practices,"
said Ed Davalos, director of education for Sprint. "They are looking for trusted
partners who not only appreciate the importance of environmental objectives but
can provide practical ways to help achieve them. This includes innovative green
communications solutions that can simultaneously support the educational
mission, increase productivity and reduce costs."

The UA has been recognized as one of the most environmentally sensitive campuses
by many prominent organizations, including the Sustainable Endowments Institute
and the National Wildlife Federation. Now Sprint is providing additional support
by making it easier for students and staff at UA to "go green" through
innovative offerings and opportunities, including:

* New eco-friendly products including the Samsung Reclaim - the first phone in
the United States constructed from eco-friendly bio-plastic material, available
exclusively from Sprint.
* Two free and easy wireless equipment collection and recycling programs -
Sprint Buyback and Sprint Project Connect(SM). These programs allow universities
to sell Sprint their unused wireless equipment that still has value. The
equipment is then recycled or reused instead of being diverted to landfills.
Wireless phones and equipment with no value are also accepted and recycled at no
charge with proceeds going toward Internet safety education.

"We are extremely excited about our mutually beneficial partnership with Sprint
that helps support common goals of sustainability and the community interest in
being socially responsible," said Frank Farias, executive director of the UA
BookStore.

One of the most visible Sprint programs adopted by many universities combines
discounts on Sprint service plans with a broad variety of Sprint handsets for
students, faculty and staff.

At UA:

* Sprint is the first wireless service to be offered at the main UA BookStore,
with phones and service plans available at the store located in the Student
Union Memorial Center.
* Sprint is offering a 10 percent discount to students and a 15 percent discount
to faculty and staff on service plans, with a two-year service agreement.
* Students on a tight budget can get service plans starting as low as $27 a
month after applying their student discount.

In addition to products for individuals, Sprint applies its green commitment to
the broad IT needs inherent in a communications-intensive university setting.
This includes campus networking solutions that can increase operational
efficiencies - through such applications as wireless work order and inventory
management - while supporting environmental responsibility.

For example, Sprint-provided location-based services can help reduce carbon
emissions through better management of vehicles and assets. In addition, Sprint
also offers unified communications, which eliminates the need for desk phones
and ties voice service to a laptop via VoIP. Unified communications can help
university users increase productivity, lower costs and, in some cases, reduce
their environmental impact by allowing mobile staff members to commute and
travel less frequently. Although a number of higher education institutions have
converged communications solutions onto one network, no school demonstrates the
benefits of this strategy better than Fayetteville State University in
Fayetteville, N.C.

"We were looking for a complete solution that could improve coverage and
capacity issues and also enable our staff to have a single number that could
route calls anywhere," said Joseph Vittorelli, director of systems and
infrastructure at Fayetteville State University. "We selected Sprint because it
offered us all of this and allowed us to successfully extend dial and transfer
calls from our mobile devices. This has led to increased user satisfaction by
making it easier for staff and students to communicate and collaborate wherever
they are on or off campus."

Sprint was recently ranked #15 on Newsweek`s Green Ranking of America`s 500
largest corporations, the highest among U.S. wireless companies. For additional
information on Sprint`s environmental initiatives visit
www.sprint.com/responsibility/environment.

Sprint, named most reliable 3G network in a 13-city test by PC World, serves
educational institutions through its newly formed Business Markets Group (BMG).
Composed of 4,000 sales, support, marketing and operations employees, Sprint`s
BMG is dedicated solely to enterprise, general business and public sector
customers. BMG delivers wireless, wireline and converged solutions for
companies, drawing on the nation`s most dependable 3G mobile broadband network,1
4G capabilities that are well ahead of Sprint`s competition, the fastest
national push-to-talk network,2 and a comprehensive solutions portfolio of
devices and applications. To learn more about Sprint`s higher-ed solution
offerings, visit www.sprint.com/highereducation or contact your Sprint account
team.

ABOUT SPRINT NEXTEL

Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline
communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers,
businesses and government users. Sprint Nextel is widely recognized for
developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including two
wireless networks serving more than 48 million customers at the end of the third
quarter of 2009 and the first and only 4G service from a national carrier in the
United States; industry-leading mobile data services; instant national and
international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone.
The company`s customer-focused strategy has led to improved first call
resolution and customer care satisfaction scores. For more information, visit
www.sprint.com.

1) "Dependable" based on independent, third-party drive tests for 3G data
connection success, session reliability, and signal strength for the top 50 most
populous US markets (including PR) from January 2008 to July 2009. Not all
services are available on 3G, and coverage may default to a separate network
when 3G is unavailable.

2) "Fastest" based on initial call setup time.

Media Contact:
Sprint
Sukhi Sahni, 703-592-7779
sukhi.sahni@sprint.com

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