Sprint, a global communications company, built and operates the United States'
first nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network and is a leader in advanced
data communications services - integrating long-distance, local, and wireless
communications services - and a large carrier of Internet traffic.
With annual revenues of more than $23 billion and serving more than 20 million
business and residential customers, Sprint has more than 81,000 employees nationwide.
Founded in 1899 as the Brown Telephone Co., the organization maintains its world
headquarters in Kansas City, where big corporate facilities changes are taking
place.
By third-quarter 2002, 14,500 Kansas City-based employees will occupy 20 buildings
on a new high-tech headquarters campus. The campus, which is about 50-percent
complete with 10 of the buildings now occupied, consolidates about 14,000 Sprint
workers under one "roof" from various locations throughout greater
Kansas City. In total, Sprint operates more than 24 million square feet of space
in 1,670 global locations.
Technology has spurred Sprint's rapid expansion plans beyond Kansas City. In
March, the company opened the first two of its new Sprint E|Solutons Internet
centers in New York City and Boston. The 106,000-square-foot New York City Sprint
E|Solutions Internet Center is the first of nine expansion Internet centers
planned to open by the end of this year, further expanding Sprint's ability
to meet increasing customer demand. Housed in the shadows of Fenway Park, the
70,000-square-foot Boston Internet Center will offer Sprint's customers application
and Web hosting support, collocation, monitor and report performance, and IT
professional services.
Sprint has plans for a total of 18 Sprint E|Solutions Internet Centers to be
constructed and fully operational by the end of 2002 in such other cities as
Atlanta, Dallas, Kansas City, MO, Los Angeles, San Jose, CA, Seattle, and Washington,
D.C, as well as global locations in Europe and Asia.
