Responding to the tragic attacks on American cities, Sprint has donated $500,000 to the American Red Cross and provided Sprint PCS wireless phones and other free calling for disaster workers and victims in New York and Washington, D.C.

The Sprint Foundation, within hours of the attacks, committed the funds to the American Red Cross to use at its discretion and offered the support of Sprint employees. The Sprint Foundation emphasizes charitable support of local and regional organizations in communities in which the corporation has a major presence.

Additionally, Sprint PCS, which operates the largest 100 percent digital nationwide wireless network, has provided nearly 2,000 wireless phones and service to rescue workers in New York City, and another 300 phones to workers in Washington, D.C. to ensure clear communications during rescue efforts. Earlier this year, Sprint PCS donated 400 phones to the American Red Cross staging area in Atlanta for emergencies of this kind.

Sprint PCS stores in New York also provided free emergency calling, and Sprint programmed its payphones in New York City to allow free outgoing calls. These include banks of payphones at the Greyhound Bus Station just blocks from the World Trade Center site.

Additionally, Sprint has donated phone cards for free long distance calling on other wireline phones.

"On behalf of our more than 87,000 employees across the country, I would like to express our great sadness for the loss of lives and the harm to our national landmarks. As the nation recovers, it is important for all of us to support the brave rescue workers, and we hope these contributions will allow them to do their important jobs better and faster," said Sprint Chairman and CEO William T. Esrey.

Throughout the country, Sprint employees have been encouraged to participate in blood drives and other local activities to support the rescue efforts, and the interest in providing help has been enormous, Esrey said.

About Sprint
Sprint is a global communications company serving 23 million business and residential customers in more than 70 countries. With more than 80,000 employees worldwide and $23 billion in annual revenues, 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. Sprint's award-winning Tier 1 Internet backbone is being extended to key global markets to provide customers with a broad portfolio of scaleable IP products. Sprint's high-capacity, high-speed network gives customers fast, dependable, non-stop access to the vast majority of the world's Internet content. Sprint also operates the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide PCS wireless network in the United States, already serving the majority of the nation's metropolitan areas including more than 4,000 cities and communities.

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