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Sprint Chairman & CEO Gary Forsee Provides Vision for Telecom Industry in CES Keynote Address"Useful innovation" and "integrated products" key for Sprint growth Media Contacts: Steve Lunceford, 703-904-2073steve.lunceford@mail.sprint.com For more information on Sprint's presence at the 2004 CES and for the online media kit, click here. LAS VEGAS (Consumer Electronics Show) — 01/09/2004 Sprint Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Gary Forsee outlined his vision for the future of communications and illustrated some of Sprint's leading technologies during the closing Keynote Address of the 2004 Consumer Electronics Show today. Key themes included the need for what Forsee described as "useful innovation," and the delivery of "integrated" products and services that marry the best of the wired and wireless worlds together to bring "anywhere, anytime" communications to customers. Speaking at the world's largest consumer electronics trade show, Forsee discussed how telecom products have changed the way consumers and businesses access information, buy and sell products and services, listen to music and more as he outlined the rapid pace of progress throughout the industry. "For Sprint, the guiding principle for product and application development is to develop 'useful innovation' for people," said Forsee. "Not innovation just for the sake of innovation." "Sprint's goal with useful innovation is to transform customers' potential into performance and performance into power – the power to connect, the power to share, the power to access the world," he said. Sprint customers then helped Forsee demonstrate his point, showing how Sprint products and services – from camera phones to wireless data cards – helped them accomplish goals in their personal and professional lives. Examples included: Sprint PictureMail. More than 66 million pictures were shared on the enhanced nationwide PCS network. Nearly 60 million camera phones were sold worldwide last year, making it the fastest-growing consumer tech device ever. In a dramatic example of its usefulness, a young teen illustrated how he used his Sprint phone to foil an abduction attempt and help the police apprehend the suspect. PCS Connection CardsTM , which provide wireless connectivity for laptops. A Sprint customer who shoots video for the Weather Channel illustrated how important reports on severe weather conditions, such as hurricanes or tornados, are easily transmitted back from the site of a major storm using this Sprint service. Students and faculty from Case Western Reserve University, one of the nation's leading independent research universities, spoke on how integrated Sprint services – from local and long distance to wireless connectivity and landline broadband – help them better access information whenever they need it, no matter where they are on campus. "When I speak about an integrated experience," Forsee said, "It means connecting people wherever they are. It means delivering voice and data across multiple platforms. "An integrated experience enables people to read e-mail, open attachments, view a spreadsheet or other information – at home, at the office, from the road, even from the beach or Little League game," he added. "From Sprint's perspective, the integrated experience is where the industry is going and, more importantly, where it needs to be." During his remarks, Forsee also referenced new services Sprint announced and demonstrated during CES, including the Game Lobby – a nationwide virtual mobile community for gamers to meet, recommend games and challenge each other – and the PCS Vision Video Phone VM4050 by Toshiba, giving PCS VisionSM customers the capability to take and send video and audio directly from their mobile phones to anyone, anywhere on the enhanced Sprint Nationwide PCS Network.

• Release Date

  Jan 6, 2010

• Runtime

  31:36