C2P:Long Name: Intrepid - Sales Compensation

Description:

Intrepid calculates compensation for Sprint^s sales force, based on revenue that the sales reps generate for the company and the compensation plans that they are on. The on-line screens provide the ability for Sales and Sales Compensation to update organization and sales person information.

ALP:

Long Name:

Alternate Channels CommissioningShort Name: ACC/AL

Description:

Alternate Channels is a commissioning system that is used to commission it^s partners. Sprint markets its services both directly and via partners with whom Sprint has contractual agreements. For customers acquired through these partnership arrangements, Sprint is required to share revenue with (pay commissions to) the acquiring partner. Providing timely and accurate payment to partners, as well as providing sufficient information to properly manage these partnership relationships is the purpose for the DSS applications operating in support of the partnership management function. The partnership management function is supported in DSS by the Alternate Channels Commissioning (AL) System and the Marketing Information Warehouse (MIW). The AL DataMart, a part of the AL system, provides a repository for partnership-related information, and is intended for use as an analysis tool.

SBS - Sprint Business solutions

SCS - Sprint Customer Services

LTD - Local Telecommunications Division

FIN - The science of the management of money and other assets

ITS - International Translation System

NTK

CORP - Belonging to an incorporated body.

GMG - Global Markets Group

PCS - Personal Communications Services

SBS:

The Nortel Networks Shasta 5000 Broadband Service Node enables service providers to bring together thousands of Internet subscribers onto one platform. The Service Creation System (SCS) is a graphical user interface (GUI) to the Shasta 5000 BSN that allows the service provider, to customize the IP services for the subscribers. The SCS uses the CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) API protocol. The IP Services Operating System (iSOS) is a networking device operating system with a command-line interface. The SCS provides for the following: - Create system-wide service policies, service profiles, and group templates that can be applied to individual Internet subscribers or groups of subscribers. - Host multiple ISPs and corporations by creating multiple context domains, allowing for the deployment of retail and wholesale service provider approaches. - Configure the physical Shasta 5000 BSN in addition to both logical and physical components such as virtual routers and ISP profiles. - Monitor and troubleshoot using SNMP and familiar GUI tools. The SCS contains 12 separate applications: Device Manager, Access Properties Manager, Service Policies Manager, Bulk Connections Manager, Connections Manager, Alarm Manager, Route Properties Manager, Subscriber Manager, ISP Manager, User Manager, VPN Manager, and Log Manager.

LTD:

. Sprint's Local Telecommunications Division (LTD) provides local telephone service to more than 8.2 million customer lines within more than 3,000 communities in 18 states. The division offers Sprint's full portfolio of products and services, which includes local, long distance, Internet, paging and PCS. In addition, Sprint LTD provides video and data products and services to customers inside and outside its operating territories.

2. All local division organizations, with the exception of BWM, will make up LTD. LTD will continue to provide local and long-distance wireline service to the consumer marketplace in its local service territories. LTD will also offer an expanding portfolio of bundled and integrated wireline and wireless services, and will sell to and service PCS customers within LTD territory.

ITS:

Information Technology Services

ITS

1. On 01/02/03 all organizations providing IT-related services at Sprint became part of the new ITS organization. These include; Integrated Systems Solutions (ISS) in GMG, Information Services Systems Development (ISSD) in LTD, Information Technology Application Development & Service Delivery in PCS, and Enterprise Services, which provides cross-divisional IT-related services but currently (1/03) resides in LTD.

International Translation System

ITS

1. Enables the International Network Translations organization to update and maintain the international portion of the routing tables in the DMS250 and DMS300 switches.

GMG:

A Sprint organization which provides a broad suite of communications services targeted to domestic businesses and residential customers (except for consumer long-distance services provided to customers within Sprint's local franchise territories), multinational corporations and other communications companies. These services include domestic and international voice; data communications services such as Internet, frame relay access and transport, Web hosting and managed security services; and broadband services.

PCS:

Personal Communications Services

PCS 1. Broad range of telecommunications services that enable people and devices to communicate independent of location. PCS networks and devices operate over a wide range of frequencies assigned and authorized by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

2. Emerging technologies providing wireless access to the local and long-distance telephone system. Most PCS plans call for low-powered, lightweight pocket phones with individual, personal telephone numbers that can be accessed without geographic restriction.

Post-conversion Subscription

PCS 1. The process by which end users may change their Primary Interexchange Carrier (PIC) by contacting the Access Provider (AP) or the Access Carrier/Interexchange Carrier (AP/IXC).

Pre-conversion Subscription

PCS 1. The process where end users select a primary IXC to carry their services (end user notification, equal access balloting, and allocation). Sprint LTD became 100% Equal Access capable in 1999, so pre-conversion activity no longer applies to Sprint LTD.

BAN : Billing Account Number(The account number that is being billed)

In the external number management system, this is the value that is used to uniquely identify a reseller account for the purpose of reserving access numbers for use by the

reseller. In P2K, this is the value that corresponds to the Major Account Number that is assigned to the subscription?s liable account.

CRP : Call Request Packet

In packet data switching, a call request packet carries information, such as sender and recipient identification, that is needed to establish an X.25 circuit. In more technical terms, a call request packet is sent by the originating data terminal equipment (DTE) showing the requested network terminal number (NTN), network facilities and either X.29 control information or call user data.

CORP: Corporate Belonging to an incorporated body

BTEQ: Basic Teradata Query