The Sprint Foundation Supports New York's Kids by Funding More Than $50,000 in Character-Education Programs in Schools across the State Tweet

Sprint Character Education Grant Program grants will be awarded later this summer for use in the 2010-2011 school year; complete list of recipients available at www.sprint.com/educationgrants.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. --Sprint (NYSE: S) announced that 11 schools across the state of New York will be awarded grants for character-education initiatives in the 2010-2011 school year through the Sprint Character Education Grant Program. Schools will be awarded Sprint Foundation grants of up to $5,000 for in-school programs that address and promote youth leadership, youth volunteerism, a positive school culture and drop-out prevention.

Now in its third year, the Sprint Character Education Grant Program awards Sprint Foundation grants to school districts and individual schools to fund resources that facilitate and encourage character education among K-12 students. With a national reach, the program is open to all U.S. public schools (K-12) and U.S. public school districts.

This year's New York grant recipients are:

* Bronx: P.S. 109
* Bronx: P.S. 159
* Brooklyn: I.S. 220, John J. Pershing
* Brooklyn: P.S. 249, The Canton School
* Brooklyn: P.S. 631K, The General D. Chappie James Elementary School
* East Syracuse: East Syracuse Minoa Central High School
* Long Island City: P.S. 69Q, The School of Cultural and Performing Arts
* New York: P.S./M.S. 161
* New York: M.S. 352, Ebbets Field Middle School
* Ozone Park: P.S. 306, Academy for Discovery
* Rochester: Lincoln Park School #44

Each grant will be between $2,500 and $5,000, and the Sprint Foundation will be awarding a total of more than $50,000 to New York schools through the 2010 Sprint Character Education Grant Program.

"Teachers and administrators are already doing fantastic work in our schools, but all too often their passion and creativity has to be restrained by their limited financial resources," said Debby Ballard, director of Community Affairs for Sprint. "Through the Sprint Character Education Grant Program, the Sprint Foundation will provide crucial funding, allowing these educators to develop and execute character-education programs that will help these children become productive citizens."

Schools and districts applied for grants earlier this year in an open-application process. Applications were reviewed by an independent third-party panel, comprised of members of the Character Education community. All recipients were notified last week, and all 2010 grants will be awarded by early August.

A complete list of 2010 grant recipients can be found at www.sprint.com/educationgrants.

About Sprint Nextel

Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers, businesses and government users. Sprint Nextel served more than 48 million customers at the end of the first quarter of 2010 and is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, and the first and only wireless 4G service from a national carrier in the United States; offering industry-leading mobile data services, leading prepaid brands including Virgin Mobile USA, Boost Mobile and Assurance Wireless and instant national and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone. With its customer-focused strategy, you can learn more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com or www.facebook.com/sprint and www.twitter.com/sprint.

About the Sprint Foundation

Since its establishment in 1989, the Sprint Foundation has provided more than $110 million to community organizations across the country with a special emphasis on those supporting K-12 education, positive youth development, arts and culture outreach, and Internet safety. Through direct grants and a robust matching-gifts program for employees and retirees, the Sprint Foundation creatively and thoughtfully delivers Sprint's commitment to championing the communities where Sprint customers and employees live.

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Verizon Wireless’ Fifth Annual Free Youth Soccer Clinic Returns To New York City Tweet

Registration for Free Clinic May 22nd at Queens Center Mall and May 23 at Steinway St. Store in Queens.

ORANGEBURG, NY — Verizon Wireless and some of Latin America’s greatest soccer legends are joining forces for their fifth annual youth soccer clinic series in 19 U.S. cities, including New York on Sunday, May 30th, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Field Eight in Queens.

Free registration will take place on May 22nd and 23rd at two Verizon Wireless Communications Stores in Queens:

Saturday, May 22
1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Verizon Wireless Communications Store at Queens Center Mall
90-15 Queens Blvd, Elmhurst, Queens

Sunday, May 23
1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Verizon Wireless Communications Store in Astoria
31-25 Steinway Street, Astoria, Queens

Registration is limited and open to players 5 to 17 years old. The first 100 to register at each store will receive a free soccer ball the day of the clinic.

About the clinic
Leading the clinics and overseeing a staff of coaches from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) and local leagues will be retired American pro “Soccer” Tom Mulroy and Colombian soccer star Carlos “el Pibe” Valderrama. The three-hour clinics will include ball gymnastics, warm ups, ball control, overall soccer skills, and small-sided games. Each participating youth will receive an official soccer jersey, sports sack, baseball cap and certificate of completion.

For full clinic details please visit www.alianzadefutbol.com.

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Sprint 4G Helps Chicago Food Bank Feed More Tweet

The Greater Chicago Food Depository goes mobile with 4G in food stamps sign-up drive, touching thousands more families in need.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. --The Greater Chicago Food Depository is proof that the value of 4G spans all business types - from large enterprise companies to non-profits operating on a tight budget.

Today, Sprint (NYSE: S) business customers use 4G applications to improve care in hospitals, keep crime in check through mobile video surveillance, gather television news in ways never seen before, and access real-time data instantaneously.

The Greater Chicago Food Depository uses 4G to bring food to families who need it.

The Greater Chicago Food Depository feeds 142,000 people a week in conjunction with local partners including pantries, soup kitchens and shelters. Last year, it distributed 58 million pounds of food to the community.

Despite the success in food distribution, the depository was challenged on how to broaden the availability of food stamps to eligible recipients. "Either people didn't know about the food stamps program, didn't know where to sign up, or didn't know if they were eligible," said Muhammad Khan, IT director-Greater Chicago Food Depository.

To address the challenge, the food depository equipped food stamp outreach coordinators with Sprint 4G-powered laptops. They criss-crossed Cook County, going from food pantries to city agencies to churches to community centers to sign up eligible recipients. Using laptops, the coordinators widened the reach of the food stamp program dramatically and sped up the sign-up process for hundreds of applicants using 4G speeds and broadband capacity.

"By taking the program on the road - so to speak - with the help of Sprint 4G, the number of people we touched and the awareness we created grew exponentially," Khan said. "With the 4G network, the speed and capacity for sending data is impressive. The faster the connection speed, the more people the coordinators can help in the few hours they spend at each agency."

"The depository's story is not unusual," said Todd Rowley, Sprint vice president-4G. "We see all the time how 4G changes the trajectory of a business, makes it more efficient, cuts operating costs, enables a better process for doing business and - like the depository - changes the lives of people."

Sprint is the first national carrier to roll out 4G. Sprint 4G is currently available in 32 markets covering about 41 million people. By the end of this year Sprint expects to launch 4G service in such major markets as New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami and Washington, D.C., and cover a population of 120 million.

This summer, Sprint launches the world's first 3G/4G Android(TM) handset, HTC EVO(TM) 4G, exclusively from Sprint. HTC EVO 4G delivers a multimedia experience at 4G speeds that are second to none, making it possible to download music, pictures, files or videos in seconds - not minutes - and watch streaming video on-the-go with one of the largest pinch-to-zoom displays, at 4.3 inches, in the wireless industry.

Sprint already offers six 4G devices, including the Overdrive(TM) 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot by Sierra Wireless, a hotspot capable of connecting up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices (such as iPhone, iTouch, Palm Pre, laptops, gaming devices) to the Sprint 3G or 4G networks where available. With the Overdrive, any Wi-Fi enabled device, including the recently launched iPad, can become a 4G device.

For more information about Sprint Business Markets Group, visit:

www.sprint.com/business

http://www.sprint.com/business/mb/index.html

http://www.sprint.com/business/gov/index.html

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The Greater Chicago Food Depository goes mobile with 4G in food stamps sign-up drive, touching thousands more families in need OVERLAND PARK, Kan., M Tweet

Sprint Character Education Grant Program grants will be awarded later this summer for use in the 2010-2011 school year; complete list of recipients available at www.sprint.com/educationgrants.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. --Sprint (NYSE:S) today announced that 41 schools and 13 school districts from across the country will be awarded grants for character-education initiatives for the 2010-2011 school year through the Sprint Character Education Grant Program. Grants will go to in-school programs that address and promote youth leadership, youth volunteerism, a positive school culture and drop-out prevention.

Now in its third year, the Sprint Character Education Grant Program awards Sprint Foundation grants to school districts and individual schools to fund resources that facilitate and encourage character education among K-12 students. With a national reach, the program is open to all U.S. public schools (K-12) and U.S. public school districts.

School districts will be awarded Sprint Foundation grants of up to $25,000 each, and individual schools will be awarded Sprint Foundation grants of up to $5,000. In total, the Sprint Foundation will be awarding more than $450,000 in grants for this program in 2010, bringing the three-year total to over $1.5 million.

"Teachers and administrators are already doing fantastic work in our schools, but all too often their passion and creativity has to be restrained by their limited financial resources," said Debby Ballard, director of Community Affairs for Sprint. "Through the Sprint Character Education Grant Program, the Sprint Foundation will provide crucial funding, allowing these educators to develop and execute character-education programs that will help these children become productive citizens."

Schools and districts applied for grants earlier this year in an open-application process. Applications were reviewed by an independent third-party panel, comprised of members of the Character Education community. All recipients were notified last week, and all 2010 grants will be awarded by early August.

A complete list of 2010 grant recipients can be found at www.sprint.com/educationgrants.

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AT&T Business Customers Can Now Enjoy Unlimited Calling To Their A-List Tweet

AT&T Extends Calling Feature to Qualified Businesses, Offering Unlimited Calling to Selected Domestic Phone Numbers.

AT&T* announced it has extended its popular A-List feature to its enterprise mobility customers, spanning small, medium and large sized businesses. AT&T is the only major U.S. carrier to offer businesses customers up to ten VIP numbers per user on individual or pooled plans.

With AT&T A-List for Business, customers’ corporate liable users can experience unlimited mobile calling to and from up to ten “VIP” domestic phone numbers from any U.S. carrier, at no additional cost per line on qualified individual or pooled plans, or per group on qualified group rate plans.

“We’re excited to take this popular consumer wireless offer and bring it to mobility business customers of all sizes,” said Chris Hill, vice president, mobility product management, AT&T Business Solutions. “AT&T A-List for Business provides an incredible value for organizations seeking to control their spending while maintaining mobile communications with their customers and suppliers.”

Adding and modifying phone numbers on A-List for Business is easy through the online tools that AT&T offers its customers. Any online changes will result in an email confirmation for security purposes.

A-List for Business is now available from AT&T. For more information visit www.att.com or contact your AT&T sales representative.

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AT&T Creates Advanced Enterprise Mobility Solutions Group To Focus On Applications And Solutions For Workplaces Of All Sizes Tweet

Company Appoints Veteran Officer to Lead Initiative to Help Mobilize Businesses and Organizations.

AT&T* said it is creating a new group within its Business Solutions unit to accelerate the delivery of advanced mobile applications and solutions for traditional and emerging devices to businesses, governments and organizations of all sizes globally. The group – to be called Advanced Enterprise Mobility Solutions – will complement AT&T’s Emerging Devices Organization which focuses on devices that are wirelessly enabled for consumers.

Michael Antieri has been named President of the Advanced Enterprise Mobility Solutions unit and assumes responsibility for the development, sales and deployment of mobile applications and solutions for organizations whose workforces and customers are increasingly doing business “on the go” using all kinds of connected devices – both traditional and emerging devices.

“Companies today are more mobile than ever, traveling to clients, working from remote locations, using devices to communicate while on the move, and wirelessly connecting devices to each other,” said Ron Spears, President and CEO of AT&T Business Solutions. “With millions of workers now using smartphones, netbooks and rugged devices, and with multiple industries now adopting machine-to-machine applications, we see a tremendous opportunity to bring the power of our networking expertise and assets to help companies everywhere ‘go mobile’ by mobilizing their business processes to take advantage of real-time information and transactions to do business more efficiently and productively.”

U.S. businesses are increasingly depending on mobile applications. Industry analyst firm IDC [1], found that there were more than 450 million mobile Internet users worldwide in 2009, a number that is expected to more than double by the end of 2013. In addition, according to IDC [2], the United States has the highest percentage of mobile workers today − growing to an estimated 75 percent of workers by 2013.

Over the last two years, AT&T has tripled the number of business subscribers who are using integrated devices. In the last year alone, the company has seen a 60 percent increase in business subscribers, as “enterprise-class” devices and applications continue to proliferate within a host of industries, including manufacturing, financial services, consumer packaged goods, retail, trade, construction, transportation, government education and healthcare.

Antieri, a 31-year company veteran, will head the new Advanced Enterprise Mobility Solutions business unit focused on delivering mobility solutions specific to these industries. The unit will work with developers and third-party providers to help co-innovate and deliver applications in a network and cloud-based environment that easily allows them to extend new services down to any desired device.

“Very few players in the industry have the breadth of AT&T assets and the capillary density of AT&T’s distribution channels to reach out and touch customers across of the enterprise, small business and government spaces,” said Michael Antieri, President, Advanced Enterprise Mobility Solutions, AT&T Business Solutions. “Building upon AT&T’s already successful Emerging Devices Organization, we will work closely with the AT&T EDO team to harness their strengths and investments, and work with businesses to mobilize their applications, transform their business processes and capture the potential opportunities that M2M technology offers.”

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AT&T Secure E-Mail Gateway Service Helps Protect Against E-Mail Security Threats Tweet

AT&T Enhances Cloud-Based Security Infrastructure, Relationship with McAfee to Offer New Security as a Service Solution.

As spam and other e-mail security threats continue to inundate organizations’ daily operations and compliance regulations continue to grow more complex, AT&T* has announced a new network-based solution, AT&T Secure E-mail Gateway Service. This new “Security as a Service” (SaaS) solution provides e-mail security and message management by ensuring the integrity of a message before it enters an organization’s network and helping to monitor and act on all outbound e-mail containing content that violates data loss prevention policies.

AT&T, a leader in managed cloud based security, has been delivering integrated carrier grade security to customers of all sizes, including virtualized firewall, intrusion detection and prevention, URL filtering, content filtering, and Distributed Denial of Service protection. As a result of a new agreement with McAfee (NYSE: MFE), AT&T Secure E-mail Gateway Service combines McAfee global threat intelligence technology with the benefits of the AT&T Global IP Network and AT&T’s experience in managed service delivery for customers throughout the world.

This new e-mail security service integrates McAfee’s e-mail protection technology and global threat intelligence into AT&T’s network gateway nodes to deliver enhanced SaaS capabilities. Customers can easily manage and administer the service through the award-winning AT&T BusinessDirectSM customer portal that enables customers to perform a multitude of network management and administrative tasks quickly and securely.

Security threats are escalating for businesses and organizations of all sizes, including increased volumes of spam. In fact, there were on average 135.5 billion spam messages sent per day in 2009, according to a recent threat report by McAfee Labs. [i]

The key features of AT&T Secure E-Mail Gateway Service are:

* Protects against internal and external e-mail threats that include: commercial spam, malicious attachments, direct e-mail server connections from spammers and botnet-controlled endpoints, and e-mail embedded URL-based attacks and more, before they ever reach the customer’s network
* Enables monitoring and quick action on outbound e-mail containing content that violates policies
* Provides features, tools, and reporting capabilities that enable compliance with data privacy and retention regulations, legal discovery requirements, economically and efficiently
* Offers protected, accessible, archived e-mail with no hardware to buy, no software to install, no tape backups, and no maintenance to perform

“We’re focused on providing our customers of all sizes the solutions they need to combat today’s evolving cyber security threats through our network-based approach to fully managed network security services,” said Bill O’Hern, Assistant Vice President, Technology Security, AT&T Business Solutions. “With this new AT&T Secure E-mail Gateway Service, our customers can ensure the integrity of a message before it even enters their network. In addition, the solution helps to meet compliance regulations as unwanted content is blocked and sensitive content can be encrypted with this service.”

Working together in an expanded relationship, AT&T and McAfee are focused on providing managed security services that help provide an up-to-date response to security threats. The relationship provides AT&T customers access to the most innovative security software available today, removing the complexity of learning new technologies while benefiting from quick access and faster time to market through the managed approach AT&T provides.

“This strategic relationship with AT&T underscores the importance of delivering comprehensive security solutions, enabling us to drive even more complete and integrated IT solutions to enterprises across the world,” said Marc Olesen, SVP and General Manager, McAfee Software-as-a-Service. “Our next-generation cloud capabilities, combined with AT&T’s experience in managed service delivery, help improve our customer’s investments and security posture.”

AT&T Secure E-mail Gateway Service is the newest offering from AT&T’s portfolio of security services and is implemented, managed and hosted within the highly secure boundaries of AT&T’s Internet Data Centers worldwide. This new service replaces previous AT&T’s Secure E-mail Gateway solution, and AT&T will be working with its customers to migrate to this new platform.

AT&T delivers a suite of security and business continuity services to help assess vulnerabilities, protect infrastructure, detect attacks and respond to suspicious activities and events. More information on AT&T’s managed security offerings can be found at www.att.com/security.

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