Sprint plays the fairway card, drops $10 data surcharge on Froyo-based Samsung Replenish

Sprint Expands Environmental Commitment with Launch of Fourth Eco-Friendly Device; Samsung Replenish Packs Android and Sprint ID into $49.99 Smartphone

Sprint makes it easier than ever to head green without sacrificing technology by waiving $10 premium data charge on first green Android smartphone

SAN FRANCISCO & DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sprint (NYSE:S) today unveiled several progressive initiatives building on Sprint’s environmental leadership within the wireless industry, including upcoming availability of the fashionable Samsung Replenish™ from Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile), the No. 1 cell phone provider within the U.s..1 Samsung Replenish, an Android touch QWERTY smartphone enabled with Sprint ID, might be available on May 8 on the affordable price of just $49.99 with a two-year service agreement and new-line activation or eligible upgrade.

“We wish to make it so simple as we will for our customers to head green with a powerful choice of products and competitive pricing”

Sprint is waiving the $10 monthly premium data add-on charge for Samsung Replenish to make it easier for patrons to make eco-friendly buying decisions. Further, the Earth-friendly2 Samsung Restore™, first available from Sprint in 2010, may be offered to Virgin Mobile USA customers without an annual contract beginning on April 18.

“We wish to make it so simple as we will for our customers to move green with a sturdy number of products and competitive pricing,” said Dan Hesse, Sprint CEO. “Samsung Replenish is as green as lets make it with greater than 80 percent recyclable materials, housed in partially recycled plastics, energy efficient and built with fewer environmentally sensitive materials. As though this isn’t enough incentive, we’re also lowering the monthly rate for this phone by $10 for brand spanking new or existing customers so it pays for itself within just five months.”

With four eco-friendly phones launched up to now, Sprint has made available the main green devices and accessories of any U.S. wireless carrier. Marking another U.S. first, an optional solar charging battery cover will likely be available for Samsung Replenish. The solar battery cover and an Eco-cover produced from Naturacell3 might be available for purchase on May 8.

Earth-friendly yet Powerful

Samsung Replenish, Sprint and Samsung Mobile’s first eco-friendly2 Android smartphone boasting access to greater than 150,000 apps in Android Market™, is partially built with recycled plastics4 and recyclable packaging5 making it the appropriate choice for the environmentally conscious consumer who needs the most recent technology. The telephone may also be enabled with Sprint ID, which lets customers personalize their device instantly with eco-friendly focused apps and mobile content.

“We’re excited to expand our portfolio of eco-friendly devices to now include the Samsung Replenish with Sprint, Samsung’s first Android-powered eco-friendly phone, and the Samsung Restore with Virgin Mobile,” said Dale Sohn, president of Samsung Telecommunications America. “Both the Replenish and Restore offer an imposing feature set with hardware fabricated from recycled materials and eco-centric2 packaging, giving customers the choice to have an eco-friendly phone with no need to compromise features and functionality.”

The fashionable, full-featured Samsung Replenish includes:

* Touch QWERTY bar phone with 2.8-inch QVGA main display
* Android 2.2, Froyo, with access to greater than 150,000 apps at the Android Market
* Special access to Sprint ID Pack, including Green ID pack
* Solar door charging accessory (sold separately)
* 2MP camera and camcorder – upload, share and store pictures with Photobucket, Facebook®, MySpace® and upload video to YouTube™
* Wi-Fi® and GPS capable
* MicroSD card slot that supports as much as a 32GB memory card
* Three color options – Onyx Black, Arctic Blue and Raspberry Pink (in June)

It has the subsequent impressive eco-credentials:

* Reduced environmentally sensitive materials (RoHS compliant6, freed from intentionally added polyvinyl chloride (PVC), brominated flame retardants (BFRs), phthalates and beryllium)
* Energy efficient, with a charger that meets the EC Code of Conduct on Energy Efficiency of External Power Supplies, Version 4, in addition to a visible alert for full charge
* Casing includes 34.6 percent post-consumer recycled plastic content (the very best level in our eco-portfolio) and 82 percent of the device is product of recyclable materials
* Fully recyclable packaging that comes with 80 percent post-consumer waste materials and uses soy inks
* Features a postage-paid envelope to recycle your old phone and promotes a virtual user guide available at the Sprint website – www.sprint.com

Samsung Replenish requires activation on considered one of Sprint’s Everything Data plans. The Everything Data plan with Any Mobile, AnytimeSM includes unlimited text, Web and calling to and from any mobile in America while at the Sprint network, starting at just $69.99 per 30 days – a savings of $39.99 per 30 days vs. Verizon’s comparable plan with unlimited talk, text and Web (pricing excludes surcharges and taxes).

Because the first green2 device from Virgin Mobile, Samsung Restore will cost just $79.99 (taxes and surcharges excluded) without a annual contract. Virgin Mobile offers Beyond Talk™ unlimited data plans starting at $25 per thirty days.

Samsung Restore is an entire-featured messaging whiz, offering access to Sprint’s 3G Network, a slide-out, four-row QWERTY keyboard, 2MP camera and camcorder, Stereo Bluetooth® wireless technology and social networking shortcuts to Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. It boasts a 2.4-inch LCD screen with portrait and landscape orientation, built-in media player and straightforward navigation with Google Maps and Virgin Navigator. Samsung Restore meets Sprint Eco-Criteria, including reduced environmentally sensitive materials, energy efficiency and use of recycled materials.

Sprint also recently announced the supply of the most recent Sprint ID pack, the golf green ID pack. This ID pack offers Sprint customers using select Android devices, including Samsung Replenish, the chance to personalize their phone with an unmatched eco-focused Android experience that offers mobile content to live green, shop green, recycle and more.

Sprint’s new Green Sprint ID pack provides instant personalization in one download with apps, widgets and mobile shortcuts at the user’s device, and it features apps from eco-conscious favorites together with TreeHugger.com, Earth911.com, Green America and the National Audubon Society. Starting today owners of select Sprint devices, including Samsung Transform™, Samsung Epic™ 4G* and Samsung Galaxy Tab™, can load the golf green ID pack onto their device. Samsung Replenish will offer the fairway ID pack when it launches on May 8. Like several other Sprint ID packs, the fairway ID pack is free to download with Sprint’s Everything Data plan.

Leading in Sustainability

Sprint is committed to helping customers protect our surroundings. Moreover advancing its sustainable product goals, consisting of launching iconic “green” devices, Sprint is operating to administer the environmental impacts of devices using a whole life-cycle view, whether or not it’s working with Underwriter’s Laboratory Environment to develop a world green phone standard or enhancing our industry-leading phone recycling efforts.

Earlier this month, Sprint and Samsung Mobile provided a $500,000 grant to the golf green Education Foundation (GEF) to aid launch their K12 “Sustainability Education Teaching Methods” professional development course. It was first made available in the course of the National Association of Elementary School Principles (NAESP) 2011 annual convention and exposition in Tampa, Fla. With the grant, GEF was capable of offer the course to every of the thousands of NAESP conference attendees to coach the subsequent generation about environmental sustainability.

Sprint’s industry-leading role in corporate responsibility and environmental sustainability continues to receive recognition:

* For the second one year in a row, Sprint ranked highest among all U.S. telecom companies on Newsweek’s 2010 Rankings of America’s Greenest Companies at No. 6, up from No. 15 in 2009.
* Sprint was ranked highest a number of the wireless carrier industry at the Carbon Disclosure Project’s “Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index.”
* Sprint recently received Frost & Sullivan’s 2010 North American Green Excellence of the Year Award in Mobile & Wireless for its demonstrated leadership and commitment to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, proactive technique to the deployment of renewable energy and aggressive cell-phone recycling efforts.
* In 2008, Sprint and Samsung partnered to launch the award-winning Samsung Reclaim™, the nation’s first feature-rich device made of corn-based bioplastic.
* Sprint’s take-back programs – Sprint Buyback and Sprint Project ConnectSM programs – help ensure that old or unused mobile devices are handled responsibly and kept out of the waste stream. More than 90 percent of the devices Sprint collected in 2010 were reused. Since 2001, Sprint’s wireless reuse and recycling take-back programs have kept more than 24 million wireless devices out of landfills.
* Since 2007, Sprint has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 9.5 percent.
* Wind power supplies more than 90 percent of the electricity needed to operate Sprint’s Overland Park, Kan., corporate headquarters.

Sprint’s sustainability website, www.sprint.com/green, details Sprint’s green mobile applications and helps customers learn about the company’s sustainability initiatives, including online bill pay, wireless recycling programs and acquiring green tips, such as using mobile GPS to calculate the quickest route to save gas. To learn more about Sprint programs that protect the environment, go to www.sprint.com/responsibility or follow @SprintGreenNews on Twitter.

The Samsung Mobile Take Back Program™ allows consumers to send in their mobile phones to be properly disposed of without cost.

Samsung Mobile supports Samsung’s overall Eco-Management 2013 Plan announced in July 2009. The plan details a comprehensive set of sustainability goals to be achieved by Samsung in 2013, such as the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from manufacturing and product, the improvement of eco-friendly product, financial investment in eco-management initiatives, and enhanced green partnerships with suppliers and partners. To determine additional info at the Samsung Recycling Direct and Samsung Mobile Take-Back Program please visit, www.samsung.com/recyclingdirect.