U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 4/A
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*
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
02/00
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5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Year)
02/00
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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 6. Title and Amount Secur- ative Nature
or Derivative Date of Underlying 8. ities Secur- of
Exer- 4. Securities Exercisable and Securities Price Bene- ity: In-
cise 3. Trans- Acquired (A) Expiration Date (Instr. 3 and 4) of ficially Direct direct
Price Trans- action or Disposed (Month/Day/Year) ---------------- Deriv- Owned (D) or Bene-
1. of action Code of(D) ---------------- Amount ative at End In- ficial
Title of Deriv- Date (Instr. (Instr. 3, Expir- 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 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Stock- N/A N/A 87,582,197** I ***
Series 3 Series 1
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PCS Common PCS Common
Stock- 1 for 1 02/04/00 J* V 28,686,170(A) N/A N/A Stock- 28,686,170 N/A 57,372,340** I ***
Series 3 Series 1
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Explanation of Responses:
* Sprint Corporation ("Sprint") announced a two-for-one stock split of its PCS
Common Stock in the form of a dividend payable in shares of PCS Common Stock of
Sprint. A comparable dividend was announced on the Class A Common Stock of
Sprint. New shares were issued on February 4, 2000 to holders of record on
January 14, 2000. Accordingly, Deutsche Telekom AG ("DT") received (i) 7,127,161
shares of PCS Common Stock-Series 3 of Sprint in respect of the 7,127,161 shares
of PCS Common Stock-Series 3 of Sprint owned by DT and (ii) 21,559,009 shares of
PCS Common Stock-Series 3 of Sprint in respect of the 43,118,018 shares of Class
A Common Stock of Sprint owned by DT.
** DT and France Telecom ("FT") may be deemed members of a group. DT holds
through its subsidiary 43,118,018 shares of Class A Common Stock, 35,813,331
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 34,441,023 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 3/15/00
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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).
