Leadership & Innovation

Sprint has a long history of providing innovative communications solutions to businesses and individuals alike. Through the years we have maintained our leadership position through a proven commitment to quality service and a willingness to invest in making it happen.

Below is a recap of recent achievements, upcoming enhancements, and industry service awards:

Fast Facts:

• 95% of the FORTUNE 1000® use Sprint. These companies use combinations of Voice, Data, Wireless, Internet.*
• Sprint serves 26 million businesses and residential customers in over 100 countries worldwide.
• Sprint offers global IP service to more than 100 countries from over 1,100 Points of Presence.
• 160 government agencies and bureaus currently rely on Sprint.
• The Sprint wireless network serves more than 21 million customers across the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
• By 2006 wireless customers should be able to enjoy data speeds of approximately 300-500 kbps.
• Sprint reduced dropped and blocked wireless calls by 22 percent in first quarter 2004 vs. first quarter 2003.
• Sprint network engineers logged nearly 49,000 hours drive-testing our wireless network in 2003.
• Sprint launched a new Wi-Fi hotspot service - PCS Wi-Fi Access - in 2003.

Service Awards:

• Highest Customer Satisfaction with Business High End Data Service Provider
  - JD Power and Associates (2003)
• Fewest FCC-reportable long distance outages (2003) - 8th consecutive year