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 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*
Deutsche Telekom AG
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(Last) (First) (Middle)
Friedrich - Ebert - Allee 140
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(Street)
Bonn Germany 53113
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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
12/99
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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
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FORM 4 (continued)
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 12/28/99 P* 245,549 (A) N/A N/A Stock- 245,549 $45.418 87,582,197 ** I ***
Series 3 Series 1
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PCS Common PCS Common
Stock- 1 for 1 12/28/99 P* 202,146 (A) N/A N/A Stock- 202,146 $67.467 I ***
Series 3 Series 1
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PCS Common PCS Common
Stock- 1 for 1 12/28/99 P* 78,750 (A) N/A N/A Stock- 78,750 $99.625 28,686,170 ** I ***
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
Deutsche Telekom AG ("DT") from Sprint pursuant to the equity purchase rights
contained in the Amended and Restated Stockholders' Agreement, dated as of
November 23, 1998, among France Telecom S.A. ("FT"), DT and Sprint.
** DT and FT may be deemed members of a group. DT holds through its subsidiary
43,118,018 shares of Class A Common Stock, 7,127,161 shares of PCS Common
Stock-Series 3 and 44,464,179 shares of FON Common Stock-Series 3 of Sprint, and
FT holds 43,118,018 shares of Class A Common Stock, 44,136,857 shares of FON
Common Stock-Series 3 and 6,441,007 shares of PCS Common Stock-Series 3 of
Sprint. DT disclaims beneficial ownership of shares held by FT 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 PCS Common Stock-Series 3 and FON Common Stock-Series 3
of Sprint can be converted in certain circumstances into one share of PCS
Common Stock-Series 1 and FON Common Stock-Series 1, respectively, of Sprint.
*** Through wholly-owned subsidiary, NAB Nordamerika Beteiligungs Holding GmbH,
in accordance with Rule 16a-13.
DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG
BY: /s/ Kevin Copp 1/6/00
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Name: Kevin Copp Date
Title: Head of International
Legal Affairs
**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).
