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Sprint Introduces a New Way to Connect Customers to Fun, Love and Games Nationwide
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Aug 21, 2002 - Matchmaker, Grenade!, the Love Quiz and more messaging entertainment
applications will have PCS Vision customers checking their phone for more than just to see who is calling.
Sprint (NYSE: FON, PCS) the company that for years has delivered unmatched clarity with crystal-clear service and Scan Mobile, a wireless
application provider, are launching messaging-based entertainment applications as part of this week's nationwide introduction of PCS Vision.
These applications include: Flirting, Daily Poll, Matchmaker, Love Quiz, ??? Crush, Grenade!, Crystal Ball, and Truth/Dare. These highly viral
games are sure to spread quickly between Sprint Vision-enabled wireless customers.
PCS Vision enables customers to have a conversation without all the talking. PCS Vision makes wireless messaging services from Sprint an
extension of the desktop experience with fully functioning Web-based PCS Mail, PCS Short Mail, Wireless Chat and Messaging Fun games by
Scan Mobile. Customers can also use their Vision-enabled PCS Devices to take and receive pictures, check personal and corporate e-mail, play
games with full-color graphics and polyphonic sounds and browse the Internet wirelessly with speeds comparable to a home computer's dial-up
connection. The shift to providing clarity you can see and hear has revolutionized virtually every aspect of wireless service from Sprint to provide
the introduction of applications, features and devices that no other wireless carrier in the nation can match.
"More and more people today depend on the online world as their link to entertainment and communication," said Chip Novick, vice president of
consumer marketing for the PCS division of Sprint. "With PCS Vision, and the fun messaging applications offered through Scan Mobile, Sprint
wireless customers are able to stay connected to what is happening now, clear across the country. This highly interactive new way to
communicate will undoubtedly be showing up in hallways, on campuses, among old friends and perhaps some new friends nationwide."
"Sprint is the first mobile network operator in the US to roll out messaging-based games and we are delighted to be the sole provider for this
nationwide launch." said David Deutsch, vice president of business affairs for Scan Mobile Ltd. "We believe that the launch of 3G networks will
spur the use of messaging based entertainment, along with the other data services enabled by these new networks."
Messaging Fun options can be accessed over the network on any PCS Vision-enabled phone and include:
- Flirting: Flirting provides an interactive meeting place for
flirtatious communication with friends or strangers.
- Daily Poll: It is always fun to find out what other people
like. With Daily Poll users answer the Question of the Day and
receive the results at the end of the poll.
- Matchmaker: Matchmaker matches users based on profiles and
enables them to "meet" and flirt wirelessly and anonymously.
- Love Quiz: With Love Quiz, users can find out if they are well
suited to their current mate, or find out what kind of person
they would be compatible with, by answering questions and
receiving a customized profile.
- ??? Crush: How do you tell someone you have a crush on them?
Use ??? Crush to send an anonymous message, then the person
can guess who sent it and if they get it right, respond back.
It could be the beginning of a beautiful relationship.
- Crystal Ball: What does the future hold? Crystal Ball gives
its predictions.
- Grenade!: Users receive grenades and have five minutes to pass
them along in a game of wireless hot potato before they
explode and get "virtually" blown up.
- Truth/Dare: Providing fodder for parties everywhere,
Truth/Dare gives users the choice between baring their soul or
doing something daring in front of others.
About Scan Mobile
Scan Mobile provides compelling messaging-based mobile applications and technology that enable mobile network operators (MNOs) and
companies to engage consumers and generate revenue. MNOs and service providers worldwide, such as Orange, Sprint PCS, Vodafone, Vizzavi,
and WebLink Wireless, have chosen Scan Mobile to increase messaging volumes, attract new users by offering differentiated services, and
reduce customer turnover by enhancing interaction. Scan Mobile offers a portfolio of easy-to-use applications including shopping, entertainment,
and mobile ticketing. Founded in 1999, Scan has offices in London and New York. For more information, visit www.scan.com.
About Sprint
Sprint is a global communications company serving more than 26 million business and residential customers in over 70 countries. With
approximately 75,000 employees worldwide and more than $26 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 scalable IP
products. Sprint's high-capacity, high-speed network gives customers fast, dependable, nonstop 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, including more than 4,000
cities and communities.
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