Sprint said transition of traffic from FTS 2000 contract was 95% ...
Sprint said transition of traffic from FTS 2000 contract was 95% complete and was expected to beat latest transition deadline of midyear set by General Services Administration (GSA). GSA- imposed deadlines for shifting federal agencies to FTS 2001 contract…
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slipped several times, with contractors most recently missing latest deadline of Dec. 6. AT&T and Sprint have been vendors for FTS 2000, with FTS 2001 contract awarded to WorldCom and Sprint (CD Dec 18 p2). GSA recently extended interim FTS 2000 agreement with Sprint by 6 months and AT&T contract by 12 months, with most prices under extended contract reverting to those in place in Jan. 1999. “We expect to complete the transition in the next few months,” Sprint Vp Govt. Systems Div. Tony D'Agata told us at Comnet show this week. Company expects to beat midyear deadline, he said, meaning interim contract that GSA just extended wouldn’t apply to Sprint because all traffic would have shifted. (Qwest in Jan. challenged GSA’s latest extension to Sprint and AT&T, arguing that other carriers should have been allowed to compete for contract.) D'Agata said that once transition was complete, Sprint planned to focus on additional offerings to federal agencies under FTS 2001, including Web hosting and Sprint PCS wireless services.