Available in 40 metropolitan areas this year, "Pivot" delivers value, convenience and access to comforts of home everywhere customers turn

Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE:S), Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK), Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC), Cox Communications and Advance/Newhouse Communications today launched the branding of "Pivot," the integrated service that gives consumers the ability to link their mobile phone service with their home digital phone, and certain high-speed internet services and digital cable services. Pivot combines powerful wireline and wireless networks to bring more useful capabilities to customers, such as one-button access to the Internet, home and wireless email and mobile TV.

"Pivot was designed to help customers connect to home with an easier, more convenient and more affordable way to keep in touch, stay informed and be entertained. We want to make technology work better and faster for the customer—and with our unique partnership, we can do things our competitors can't," said John Garcia, president Sprint/MSO Joint Venture. "Pivot links your wireless phone with the comforts of home. Our common vision is to give customers anywhere easy access to the entertainment, communications and information services that are already important to them."

Pivot provides customers with the ability to watch live and mobile TV, access home TV listings using a programming guide like the one they use at home, check home email and voicemail from one source, access the Internet, make unlimited calls between their cable home service and mobile phones, and have the convenience of one point of contact for service and billing.

In addition to keeping customers connected to the things that are important to them and making it convenient and easy to use their home-based services, Pivot remains affordable by providing value where customers need it most—their pocket book. (Specific pricing varies by market.) Additional benefits include:

* An all-inclusive wireless plan (voice, text, data, entertainment) called Pivot Plus;
* No additional cost for exclusive voice features that link your home and mobile phones;
* Night Calling on all Pivot plans starting at 7 p.m. – so you can maximize your minutes;
* And, for a limited time, customers can connect with family and friends with free text messages on any Pivot or Pivot Plus plan.

Pivot is now available in eight metropolitan areas (Raleigh, N.C.; Austin, Tex.; Boston; Portland, Ore.; San Diego; Phoenix; Cincinnati; and Dayton, Ohio).

Pivot is expected to launch in 40 metropolitan areas in 2007. The capability to program your home DVR from your Sprint phone will also be available to customers in select areas in 2007. Customers can buy this service by visiting Sprint retail stores in those markets or by calling the cable companies call centers. Currently, four handsets from the Sprint portfolio are featured in the Pivot offering, although the service is available on any Sprint handset.

Source: Sprint Nextel