U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 4
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to
Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or
Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
[ ] Check this box if no longer subject of Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5
obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b).
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
France Telecom S.A.
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(Last) (First) (Middle)
6 Place D'Alleray
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(Street)
Paris France 75505 Cedex 15
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(City) (State) (Zip)
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2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
Sprint Corporation (FON)
Sprint Corporation (PCS)
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3. IRS or Social Security Number of Reporting Person, if an Entity (Voluntary)
N/A
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4. Statement for Month/Year
9/99
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5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Year)
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6. Relationship of Reporting Person to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
[ ] Director [ X ] 10% Owner
[ ] Officer (give title below) [ ] Other (specify below)
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7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing
(Check applicable line)
[ X ] Form filed by one Reporting Person
[ ] Form filed by more than one Reporting Person
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Table I -- Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of,
or Beneficially Owned
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6.
4. 5. Owner-
Securities Acquired (A) or Amount of ship
3. Disposed of (D) Securities Form: 7.
Transaction (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) Beneficially Direct Nature of
2. Code ------------------------------- Owned at End (D) or Indirect
1. Transaction (Instr. 8) (A) of Month Indirect Beneficial
Title of Security Date ------------ Amount or Price (Instr. 3 (I) Ownership
(Instr. 3) (mm/dd/yy) Code V (D) and 4) (Instr.4) (Instr. 4)
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* If the Form is filed by more than one Reporting Person, see Instruction
4(b)(v).
Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially
owned directly or indirectly
Table II -- Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
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10.
9. Owner-
Number ship
of Form
2. Deriv- of
Conver- 5. 7. ative Deriv- 11.
sion Number of Title and Amount Secur- ative Nature
or Derivative 6. of Underlying 8. ities Secur- of
Exer- 4. Securities Date Securities Price Bene- ity: In-
cise 3. Trans- Acquired (A) Exercisable and (Instr. 3 and 4) of ficially Direct direct
Price Trans- action or Disposed Expiration Date ---------------- Deriv- Owned (D) or Bene-
1. of action Code of(D) (Month/Day/Year) Amount ative at End In- ficial
Title of Deriv- Date (Instr. (Instr. 3, ---------------- or Secur- of direct Owner-
Derivative ative (Month/ 8) 4 and 5) Date Expira- Number ity Month (I) ship
Security Secur- Day/ ------ ------------ Exer- tion of (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. (Instr.
(Instr. 3) ity Year) Code V (A) (D) cisable Date Title Shares 5) 4) 4) 4)
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FON Common FON Common
Stock- 1 for 1 9/30/99 P* 374,298 (A) N/A N/A Stock- 374,298 $39.32 87,010,334** D N/A
Series 3 Series 1
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PCS Common PCS Common
Stock- 1 for 1 9/30/99 P* 143,444 (A) N/A N/A Stock- 143,444 $44.75 27,802,162** D N/A
Series 3 Series 1
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Explanation of Responses:
* These transactions represent shares of PCS Common Stock-Series 3 and shares of
FON Common Stock-Series 3 of Sprint Corporation ("Sprint") purchased by France
Telecom S.A. ("FT") of shares from Sprint pursuant to the equity purchase rights
contained in the Amended and Restated Stockholders' Agreement, dated as of
November 23, 1998, among FT, Deutsche Telekom AG ("DT") and Sprint.
** FT and DT may be deemed members of a group. FT holds 43,118,018 shares of
Class A Common Stock, 43,892,316 shares of FON Common Stock-Series 3 and
6,243,153 shares of PCS Common Stock-Series 3 of Sprint, and DT holds 43,118,018
shares of Class A Common Stock, 44,218,720 shares of FON Common Stock-Series 3
and 6,846,265 shares of PCS Common Stock-Series 3 of Sprint. FT disclaims
beneficial ownership of shares held by DT for reporting purposes on this Form 4.
Each share of Class A Common Stock of Sprint can be converted into one share of
FON Common Stock-Series 3 (or, in certain circumstances, FON Common Stock-Series
1) and one-half share of PCS Common Stock-Series 3 (or, in certain
circumstances, PCS Common Stock-Series 1) of Sprint. Each share of FON Common
Stock-Series 3 and PCS Common Stock-Series 3 of Sprint can be converted in
certain circumstances into one share of FON Common Stock-Series 1 and PCS Common
Stock-Series 1, respectively, of Sprint.
FRANCE TELECOM S.A.
/s/ Thierry Girard 10/8/99
By: ------------------------------- ----------
Name: Thierry Girard Date
Title: Senior Vice-President
**Signature of Reporting Person
** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal
Violations.
See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
