Sprint to Donate $1 Million in Product and Services to Help Keep City of Oakland Youth and Young Adults Connected

With My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, Company Commits 500 Mobile
Hotspots with Service at Landmark Boys and Men of Color Career Summit in
the Bay Area

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sprint today will announce a donation of approximately $1 million in
devices and service to help further the educational and employment
opportunities for 500 City of Oakland, CA young adults as part of the
Sprint for ConnectED program, and partnership with My Brother’s Keeper
Alliance (MBKA) — a national nonprofit organization dedicated to
improving life outcomes for boys and men of color.

Executives from Sprint and MBKA will make the commitment to provide 500
4G LTE mobile hotspot devices each with four years of service to the
City of Oakland at the “Invest in Youth: Pathways to Success Boys and
Men of Color (BMoC) Career Summit.”

This donation will provide much-needed connectivity to support the
learning and career advancement for area youth through the Oakland
Promise program, which aims for every child in Oakland to graduate from
high school with the expectations, resources, and skills to complete
college and be successful in the career of his or her choice.

“In this increasingly digital world, at Sprint we believe that
connectivity can play a critical role in transforming young people’s
lives to achieve higher levels of education and better job
opportunities,” said Suehyun Johan Chung, Sprint’s Northern California
president. “We’re honored to be part of this tremendous summit and help
500 Bay Area young adults to complete their online homework to get
better grades, apply for jobs or school opportunities that are only
available online, and have access to the same online resources as their
connected counterparts.”

Sprint employees will meet with hundreds of Bay Area youth at today’s
landmark summit, spearheaded by MBKA. The event is open to all young
adults in the area but will specifically focus on overcoming barriers to
employment that disproportionately impact BMoCs between the ages of 18
to 29.

About Sprint:

Sprint (NYSE: S) is a communications services company that creates more
and better ways to connect its customers to the things they care about
most. Sprint served more than 58.8 million connections as of March 31,
2016 and is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying
innovative technologies, including the first wireless 4G service from a
national carrier in the United States; leading no-contract brands
including Virgin Mobile USA, Boost Mobile, and Assurance Wireless;
instant national and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a
global Tier 1 Internet backbone. Sprint has been named to the Dow Jones
Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America for the past five years. You
can learn more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com
or www.facebook.com/sprint
and www.twitter.com/sprint.

Contacts

Sprint
Lisa Belot, 913-315-5730
lisa.belot@sprint.com

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