T-Mobile USA and Sprint Make it a Snap for Customers to Share Pictures and Text Messages

Sprint and T-Mobile Customers can use Wireless Phones to Exchange Picture Messages

BELLEVUE, Washington - 07/07/2005 — Communication is sharing. Sharing ideas, feelings, pictures. And today, customers of Sprint (NYSE: FON) and T-Mobile USA, Inc. are able to communicate with more people than ever before, thanks to an agreement that enables picture messaging exchanges between subscribers.

It's called Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS) interoperability. It allows T-Mobile and Sprint customers to send and receive picture messages across carriers. In other words, the world of communication just got larger.

"Sprint continuously looks for ways to enhance Sprint PCS Picture Mail service to make it easier and more convenient for its customers to share, print, store, manage and display digital images," said Pierre Barbeau, general manager Picture Mail, Sprint. "Picture sharing interoperability with T-Mobile helps our customers stay better connected to their friends and family."

"This is just another way T-Mobile is enhancing how customers communicate," said Michael Gallelli, director of product management for T-Mobile USA, Inc. "T-Mobile's customers want to expand their communications world by allowing more people -- regardless of wireless provider -- to receive their text, instant and picture messages."

The MMS interoperability for Sprint is made possible by VeriSign through its LightSurf GX-MMS service. LightSurf GX-MMS service helps operators enable MMS traffic to more customers through a completely hosted and managed service.

Sprint and T-Mobile support a wide selection of picture message-enabled phones. For a complete list of capable phones, pricing, rate plans and additional information, please visit the companies' respective websites:
www.t-mobile.com and www.sprint.com

About T-Mobile USA, Inc.
Based in Bellevue, Wash., T-Mobile USA, Inc. is a member of the T-Mobile International group the mobile telecommunications subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG (NYSE: DT). T-Mobile USA's GSM/GPRS 1900 voice and data networks in the United States (including roaming and other agreements) reach more than 254 million people. In addition, T-Mobile operates the largest carrier-owned Wi-Fi wireless broadband network in the country, available in more than 5,700 public access locations including select Starbucks coffeehouses, Borders Books and Music, FedEx Kinko's Office and Print Centers, Hyatt Hotels and Resorts, Red Roof Inns, airports and select American Airlines Admirals Clubs, Delta Air Lines Crown Rooms, United Airlines Red Carpet Clubs and US Airways Clubs. Through its Get More® promise, T-Mobile provides customers with more minutes, more features and more service. For more information, visit the company web site at www.t-mobile.com. T-Mobile® and Get More® are federally registered trademarks of Deutsche Telekom AG and T-Mobile USA, Inc., respectively.

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