Sprint Launches SDP

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- Sprint (NYSE: FON) announced today the national market launch of Sprint Business Mobility Framework, a new solution to meet advanced mobility requirements of business customers by extending corporate applications to the hands of mobile workers and expanding the power of those applications with location-based services, messaging and geographic notifications.

Sprint Business Mobility Framework, adds to the already robust Sprint mobility portfolio aimed at driving improvements in productivity, operating costs and customer satisfaction for business customers. Businesses can now enable new or enhance existing applications through Sprint Business Mobility Framework to locate and track mobile workers or assets nationwide. In addition, companies can direct workers across geographic lines, provide text or voice messages, and share critical wireless data information with workers

The comprehensive portfolio of capabilities includes:

Examples of solutions enabled by Sprint Business Mobility Framework, using any or all of the location, messaging and notification services, include:

The launch of Sprint Business Mobility Framework continues a series of "wireless firsts" by Sprint for the business market. Recently, the company launched Sprint Managed MobilitySM Services and Sprint Extended WorkplaceSM, both of which built on Sprint's strategy to encourage business adoption of wireless and eliminated the boundaries between wireless and wireline services through more integrated offers. Additionally, Sprint is the first wireless provider to offer a nationwide Service Level Agreement on its wireless voices services (launched in August 2004) and wireless data services (launched March 2005).

"Sprint Business Mobility Framework is an industry first as Sprint has opened its network to allow partners, application providers and customers the ability to utilize the intelligence in our network to create and enhance mobility solutions," said David Owens, vice president marketing - Strategic Markets, Sprint Business Solutions. "More than ever, businesses are seeking tools to extend existing and deploy new applications to their mobile workforces. By utilizing our framework, enterprises will realize benefits that are immediate and tangible. A simple example is providing location-based information to firms so they can eliminate downtime of their field employee by knowing exactly where they are and how to most effectively deploy them based on the resource location and workload."

"Businesses continue to demand productive and secure wireless connectivity between mobile workers and the enterprise," said Eugene Signorini, Director, Wireless/Mobile Enterprise Solutions for Yankee Group. "Sprint Business Mobility Framework is another tool to help businesses realize new efficiencies gained by advanced mobile communications and the simplicity of deploying applications for a mobile workplace."

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