Sprint PCS is a global leader in the area of cellular phone service. Currently, they operate the largest 100 percent digital, 100 percent PCS nationwide network in the United States. They are the fifth largest wireless carrier in terms of consumers. Perhaps this accomplishment is fundamental because they have not yet ventured into the world of international service like those who rank above them. Over the past two years they have seen phenomenal growth and prosperity.
· License to serve 50 U.S. states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
· Serves more than 4,000 cities.
· Automatically roam in more than 35, 000 North American cities representing 100% of the existing analog network coverage in the United States.
· Sprint PCS has rose to the top in three years covering 2/3 of the U.S. population (190 million).
· Unprecedented licensed coverage of nearly 270 million.
· Ended the year with more than 5.7 million subscribers and more than 5.9 million including affiliates.
· Has led the U.S. wireless industry in customer growth for 6 consecutive quarters.
· Sprint PCS added more than 1 million customers in their fourth quarter of last year.
· Increased number of employees from 11,800 to more than 20,000.
· Web content partners: Yahoo!, Amazon.com, Ameritrade, The Weather Channel, GETTHERE.COM, FOX Sports, InfoSpace, MapQuest, CNN, and Bloomberg.
· 9 state of the art Customer Care Centers.
· Infrastructure supplied by world class manufacturers, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, and Nortel.
· 11,000 cell sites nationwide.
MARKETING-television, radio, internet, 1-800-numbers
Ø Sprint.Corp
Ø QUALCOMM (including OmniTRACS and Globalstar)
GENERAL PHONE SERVICE-long distance, local, 3 way, voice mail, caller ID, etc.
Ø Sprint.Corp
WEB ACCESS-minibrowser, the UP.Browser
Ø Phone.com-
Ø Kemper Insurance and Lockton
HARDWARE- cellular phones
Ø Samsung
Ø QUALCOMM
Ø Motorola
Ø Nokia
Ø Denso
Ø Sanyo
Ø Neopoint
SOFTWARE-CDMA digital chip
Ø QUALCOMM
v Sprint PCS has contracted with QUALCOMM-pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology in order to take CDMA chip to next level. The new chip is called the 3G, Third Generation. It will feature faster forward power control, new modulation and coding schemes, support for Quick Paging Channel and a 24x searcher, 50% increase in handset standby time, packet data, a full Internet protocol suite, voice recognition, and many other features.
v Sprint PCS contracted with Samsung to provide the intial phase of Samsung’s own cdmaOne chip. Sprint will install Samsung’s new technology. In return, Samsung will grant Sprint “base station subsystems CDMA-based products and services to the Sprint PCS system in Puerto Rico
v Sprint PCS increased nationwide distribution in contracting with KMart (2nd largest discount retailer) who will provide phones and service at more than 1,200 KMart stores.
v Sprint PCS opened additional Customer Care Centers in Nashville, Oklahoma City, and Chicago.
