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Press Release -- November 23rd, 2015
Source: Sprint Nextel
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Sprint Offers iPad Pro

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (BUSINESS WIRE), November 23, 2015 – Sprint now offers the all-new iPad Pro with Wi-Fi + Cellular, featuring a stunning 12.9-inch Retina display with 5.6 million pixels. Customers can pick up iPad Pro at select Sprint retail locations. It can also be ordered at any Sprint retail store through Direct Ship to the customer.

With Sprint Easy Pay, well-qualified buyers can purchase their iPad Pro with $200 down and $36.67 per month for 24 months. Sprint will offer iPad Pro with 128GB of storage with a range of attractive data plans:

  • Customers on a Sprint Family Share Pack plan can add a tablet for a $10 a month access charge. In addition, that tablet is eligible for Sprint’s Waived Access promotion, which waives the monthly access charges for up to four lines on the $100/10GB and $120/40GB Family Share Packs (tablet must be a new line of service and purchased through Easy Pay or full SRP).
  • Customers interested in an individual plan can sign up for as low as $10 per month for 100MB while on the Sprint network. Sprint tablet plans include mobile hotspot capability at no extra charge. Additional data plans include:
    • $15 for 1GB
    • $35 for 3GB
    • $50 for 6GB
    • $80 for 12GB
    • $110 for 30GB

Prices and data allotments are per month per line and exclude taxes and fees. For full pricing details, visit www.sprint.com/ipad.

The new, larger iPad Pro features a stunning 12.9-inch Retina display with 5.6 million pixels, the most ever in an iOS device, and groundbreaking performance with the new 64-bit A9X chip, rivaling most portable PCs. It is thin, light and delivers all-day 10-hour battery life that users have come to expect from iPad. Ultra-fast wireless connectivity keeps you connected wherever you go with 802.11ac Wi-Fi with MIMO technology, support for a wide range of LTE bands and other fast cellular network technologies.

Sprint will also offer Apple’s new Smart Keyboard, which brings breakthrough levels utility to iPad Pro. Apple’s new Smart Keyboard further extends the utility of iPad Pro, offering a full-sized keyboard in a thin, durable design so you can take it anywhere. The Smart Keyboard, available for purchase separately, attaches to iPad Pro’s innovative Smart Connector port, eliminating the need for a separate battery, on/off switch or Bluetooth pairing.

The Sprint network is faster, stronger, and more reliable than ever before. According to independent mobile analytics firm RootMetrics®, Sprint has achieved a total of 108 first place (outright or shared) RootScore® Awards for overall, reliability, speed, data, call, or text network performance in 67 metro markets published in the second half of 2015 to date, compared to 70 awards in the same 67 markets one year ago.2

For more information on iPad, please visit www.apple.com/ipad.

About Sprint

Sprint (NYSE:S, news, filings) is a communications services company that creates more and better ways to connect its customers to the things they care about most. Sprint served more than 58.6 million connections as of Sept. 30, 2015, and is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including the first wireless 4G service from a national carrier in the United States; leading no-contract brands including Virgin Mobile USA, Boost Mobile, and Assurance Wireless; instant national and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone. Sprint has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America for the past five years. You can learn more and visit Sprint atwww.sprint.com or www.facebook.com/sprint and www.twitter.com/sprint.

1 Early termination of service on Sprint Easy Pay: Remaining payments will be due immediately. Final Easy Pay payment is $36.58. Regular price is $1,079.99.

2RootMetrics award rankings based on RootMetrics 67 Metro RootScore Reports (July – December 2014 and July – October 2015) for mobile performance, as tested on best available plans and devices on four mobile networks across all available network types. The RootMetrics award is not an endorsement of Sprint. Your results may vary. See rootmetrics.com for details.

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Media Contact:
Michelle Leff Mermelstein
703-592-8357
michelle.leff@sprint.com

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