PHILADELPHIA (BUSINESS WIRE), October 26, 2016 –

Sprint today announced that its network in Philadelphia, PA received a 1st

place ranking for Call Performance and a shared 1st place

ranking in Network Reliability according to a new

RootScore® Report by independent mobile analytics

firm RootMetrics®.

This marks the first time Sprint has won the award for Call Performance

outright and the second time it shared the award for Network Reliability

in the past year.

“We work incredibly hard every day to improve our network in

order to deliver the consistent reliability and performance that our

customers demand,” said Karen Paletta, Sprint Regional President. “These

awards reinforce the fact that there has never been a better time to

switch to Sprint.”

Network performance in Philadelphia has continued to improve with the

addition of new cell sites, increased coverage and capacity, and

systematic optimization of each cell site to maximize performance.

During testing RootMetrics was also able to experience Sprint’s carrier

aggregation technology on the 2.5GHz spectrum band which has been added

to 128 sites across the market in the past 12 months. Sprint has also

made strategic improvements to the sites which cover Lincoln Financial

Field and the Wells Fargo Center.

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offer in U.S. history – 50 percent off the price of most T-Mobile,

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About Sprint

Sprint (NYSE: S) is a communications services company that creates more

and better ways to connect its customers to the things they care about

most. Sprint served 60.2 million connections as of Sept. 30, 2016 and is

widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative

technologies, including the first wireless 4G service from a national

carrier in the United States; leading no-contract brands including

Virgin Mobile USA, Boost Mobile, and Assurance Wireless; instant

national and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier

1 Internet backbone. Sprint has been named to the Dow Jones

Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America for the past five years. You

can learn more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com

or www.facebook.com/sprint

and www.twitter.com/sprint.

About RootMetrics

RootMetrics, an independent mobile analytics firm that offers insights

into the consumer mobile experience, tests the networks of all four

major wireless carriers in the U.S. twice per year. The company provides

objective, unbiased assessments of performance across a broad range of

consumer-oriented mobile activities including data usage, calling, and

texting. Network reliability measures a customer’s ability to establish

and keep a data connection, make and retain a call, and send and receive

texts.

Rankings based on RootMetrics Philadelphia (September 2016) RootScore

Report for mobile performance as tested on best available plans and

devices on four mobile networks across all available network types. The

RootMetrics award is not an endorsement of Sprint. Your results may

vary. See www.rootmetrics.com for

details.

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until 12/31/18. Other monthly charges apply.

2 Via Prepaid Rewards Card (less phone trade-in credit

provided) after online registration and new phone activation.

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