Sprint Video Relay Services Introduces
New Enhancements

Nov. 1, 2005 – Sprint launched two new Video Relay Services (VRS) enhancements to support sign language users, Sprint VRS Voice Carry Over (VCO) and Spanish VRS, and extended its VRS services hours to 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Sprint VRS VCO allows a deaf or hard-of-hearing user, who prefers to voice for themselves, to speak directly to their party while a video interpreter signs what the hearing person is saying. Based on the VCO user's communication preference, the video interpreter will use American Sign Language, English-Based Sign Language or an English-Based Sign & Lip Movement option for those that benefit from lip reading to process their VRS call. A demonstration of these three communication preferences can be seen at www.sprintvrs.com .

Through Spanish VRS, video interpreters can now translate sign language to spoken Spanish and vice versa. Operating hours for Spanish VRS are 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Central time, Monday through Friday.

Sprint VRS, now available any time day or night, enables users who use sign language to communicate via videoconferencing with a video interpreter through the Internet. The interpreter relays the signed conversation over a standard phone in real tim e to the hearing caller. By using sign language over the full-motion video, the sign language user can communicate in their natural language and convey facial expression and cues to ensure nothing gets lost in the translation. The sign language user needs a videophone with a television or a webcam with a computer.

To access VRS VCO and Spanish VRS:

• Videophone users: SprintVRSvco.tv
  or Spanish.sprintvrs.tv
• Webcam users: Sprintvrs.com and click
  on VCO or Spanish

For more information on Sprint Video Relay Service, visit: www.sprintvrs.com .