Sprint Wins Relay Service Contract In Puerto Rico

COMPANY PRESS RELEASE: Sprint has been awarded a $3.2 million contract by the Puerto Rico Telecommunications Regulatory Board (TRB) to provide state-of-the-art Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) to the commonwealth's deaf, hard-of-hearing, deaf-blind and speech disabled citizens.

The contract will extend for three years, with service scheduled to begin August 30, 2001.

Sprint will handle approximately 9,000 relay calls per month, providing dependable and reliable high-capacity service. A Sprint account manager will reside in Puerto Rico and provide education and outreach programs concerning relay service.

The Puerto Rico TRB looks forward to working with Sprint in providing our citizens with a quality and reliable communications capability, said Phoebe Forsythe Isales, president of the TRB.

We are excited about the new services and capabilities Sprint will offer. Six new toll-free relay numbers will be instituted to enable access to various Relay Services.

We are proud to welcome Puerto Rico to the constantly growing list of beneficiaries of our leading edge technology and superior customer service, said Tony D’Agata, vice president and general manager at Sprint Government Systems Division in Herndon, Virginia, USA.

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