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supported by this technology, marketed as Power VisionSM, give our subscribers with EV-DO-capable devices
access to the Internet and numerous sophisticated high-speed data messaging, photo and video offerings,
entertainment and location-based applications. Currently, EV-DO technology covers nearly 234 million people
and serves customers in over 236 communities with populations of at least 100,000. We have incorporated
EV-DO Rev. A, the most recent version of EV-DO technology, into over 82% of our CDMA network. We
anticipate incorporating EV-DO Rev. A into all new cell sites added in our CDMA network in 2008. EV-DO
Rev. A is designed to support a variety of internet protocol, or IP, video and high performance walkie-talkie
applications on our CDMA network. In addition, we are improving our product and service offerings on our
iDEN network, which will include the introduction of several new handsets in 2008.
Products and Services
We offer a wide array of wireless mobile telephone and data transmission services and features in a variety
of pricing plans, including prepaid service plans. Our wireless mobile voice communications services include
basic local and long distance wireless voice services, as well as voicemail, call waiting, three way calling, caller
identification, directory assistance, call forwarding, speakerphone and voice-activated dialing features. Through a
variety of roaming arrangements, we provide roaming services to areas in numerous countries outside the United
States, including areas of Asia Pacific, Central and South America, North America and most major Caribbean
islands.
Our data communications services include:
• wireless photo and video offerings, including the ability to shoot and send digital still pictures and
video clips from a wireless handset;
• wireless data communications, including Internet access and messaging and email services;
• on our CDMA network, wireless entertainment, including the ability to view live television; listen to
Sirius®satellite radio; download and listen to music from our Sprint Music Store, a music catalog with
thousands of songs from virtually every music genre; and play games with full-color graphics and
polyphonic sounds all from a wireless handset; and
• location-based capabilities, including asset and fleet management, dispatch services and navigation
tools.
We offer walkie-talkie services, which give subscribers with iDEN-based devices the ability to
communicate instantly across the continental United States and to and from Hawaii. Also, through agreements
with third parties, subscribers with iDEN-based devices can communicate instantly with our walkie-talkie feature
to and from selected areas in Canada, Latin America and Mexico. Our walkie-talkie features offer subscribers
instant communications in a variety of other ways, including push-to-email applications that allow a user to send
a streaming voice message to an email recipient, and off-network walkie-talkie communications available on
certain handsets. Our line of combined CDMA-iDEN devices, marketed as PowerSource, feature voice and data
applications, including our Power Vision data applications, over our CDMA network and our walkie-talkie
applications over our iDEN network, giving users the benefits of instant communications coupled with high
quality voice services. We are focusing our sales efforts of PowerSource devices toward existing subscribers of
iDEN services to offer them the additional benefit of higher data speeds on CDMA. In 2008, we plan to launch
QUALCOMM Incorporated’s QChat®technology, which is designed to provide high performance walkie-talkie
services on our CDMA network, and we are designing interfaces to provide for interoperability of walkie-talkie
services on our CDMA and iDEN networks. Upon successful launch of QChat devices, we expect that they will
succeed the PowerSource devices. Currently, we are testing the QChat application on our CDMA network and
plan to launch customer user group trials in early 2008 with a goal of launching the related service offerings in
2008. For information regarding a dispute involving the intellectual property rights of QUALCOMM that relate
to QChat, see Item 1A, “Risk Factors—The intellectual property rights utilized by us and our suppliers and
service providers may infringe on intellectual property rights owned by others.”
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