RESTON, Va.—Sprint Nextel Corp. said it won a government contract worth an estimated $679 million to continue providing telecommunications services for federal agencies.
The General Services Administration awarded Sprint Nextel the Federal Telecommunications System 2001 Bridge contract, which Sprint Corp. first won in 1988. The contract extension is set to take effect on Dec. 1, 2006, and has a minimum term of two years, with three optional six-month extensions. The contract includes helping the agency transition to a new program, Networx, after it awards Networx contracts.
In an unrelated announcement, Sprint Nextel said that it would be introducing new television and print ads, including one that uses “spaghetti western” film footage. The ads will tout Sprint Nextel’s claims of having the “largest mobile broadband network,” and that its CDMA2000 1x EV-DO data speeds are “five times faster than Cingular [Wireless L.L.C.’s] EDGE network.”
