Sprint and Forbes.com Inc. Bring Compelling Business and Consumer Content to Sprint PCS Wireless Web

Business Wire, March 1, 2001

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2001

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Sprint PCS, (NYSE:PCS) the nation's fastest-growing all-digital, all-PCS wireless carrier in the United States, and Forbes.com Inc., announced an agreement to feature Forbes.com content via the Sprint PCS Wireless Web. For the first time, Sprint PCS customers -- including business leaders on the go -- can gain convenient and immediate access to Forbes.com journalism through their Sprint PCS Internet-ready Phones.

Sprint PCS customers can access all of Forbes.com's daily news stories virtually anytime, anywhere on the Sprint PCS nationwide network. Forbes.com stories covering business, technology, investing and lifestyle are published frequently throughout the day.

"The addition of Forbes.com content to the Sprint PCS Wireless Web further strengthens Sprint PCS' commitment to providing our customers with compelling information they find useful and can use to make their lives more manageable and more productive," said Jay Highley, vice president of business marketing for Sprint PCS. "With the touch of a button, customers are instantly connected to data helping them to make important decisions about investments, technology and other business-oriented issues."

"Our relationship with Sprint PCS extends Forbes.com's reach to millions of wireless users and underscores our commitment to providing business leaders with access to the information they need - when they need it -- to run their businesses better," said Jim Spanfeller, CEO of Forbes.com.

About Sprint PCS

Sprint PCS operates the largest 100 percent digital, 100 percent PCS nationwide wireless network in the United States, already serving the majority of the nation's metropolitan areas including more than 4,000 cities and communities across the country. Sprint PCS has licensed PCS coverage of more than 280 million people in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. For more information, visit the Sprint PCS web site at www.sprintpcs.com. Sprint PCS is a wholly owned tracking group of Sprint Corporation trading on the NYSE under the symbol "PCS."

Sprint is a global communications company -- at the forefront of integrating long-distance, local and wireless communications services, and a large carrier of Internet traffic. Sprint built and operates the United States' first nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network and is a leader in advanced data communications services. Sprint has $23 billion in annual revenues and serves more than 20 million business and residential customers.

About Forbes.com Inc.

Forbes.com Inc., a leading Internet media company, is among the most trusted resources for the world's business leaders, providing them the uncompromising commentary, relevant tools and concise analysis they need to succeed at work, profit from investing and have fun with the rewards of winning. The Forbes.com Web site, located at http://www.forbes.com, includes original reporting on business, technology, investing, and lifestyle, with real-time business information news updates; the complete online editions of Forbes magazine, Forbes Global, Forbes ASAP and Forbes FYI; stock and mutual fund quotes; comprehensive company profiles; an expanded online version of the Forbes.com Best of The Web guide; a wide array of interactive tools, calculators and databases, including People Tracker, the annual Forbes Lists; and a Lifestyle section that currently focuses on high-end vehicles, collecting and real estate.