Year -Round Business Continuity Preparations Ensure Sprint Nextel is Ready for 2006 Hurricane Season

Year -Round Business Continuity Preparations Ensure Sprint Nextel is Ready for 2006 Hurricane Season

At the National Hurricane Conference today, Greig Fennell, director of corporate business continuation at Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) described the success of the company’s business continuity program in responding to Hurricane Katrina and outlined plans for the upcoming 2006 Atlantic Hurricane season.

“Even though Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast just nine business days following the merger that created our company, because of careful merger planning and year-round emergency drills, Sprint Nextel was immediately on the ground in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama just hours following the storm’s landfall with an organized and unified emergency response,” said Fennell, who is the only wireless industry representative speaking at this year’s conference. “The fact that both Sprint and Nextel made preparedness a year-round strategy before the companies merged made our efforts to respond to the tragedy in the Gulf Coast extremely efficient and effective. With the lessons of Hurricane Katrina integrated into our business continuity programs, Sprint Nextel is well-positioned to serve our customers during the 2006 hurricane season.”

Sprint Nextel’s Business Continuity Office (BCO), headed by Fennell, oversees the company’s emergency planning, response and recovery efforts. When a crisis, such as a hurricane, threatens the company’s ability to serve customers in a “business as usual” manner, the office activates the company’s Enterprise Incident Management Team (EIMT), which is made up of directors of every major operating function in the business.

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