SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549


                                    FORM 8-K

                                 CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934


Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)  March 6, 2002



                       SPRINT CORPORATION
     (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

         Kansas                    1-04721                  48-0457967
(State of Incorporation)   (Commission File Number)      (I.R.S. Employer
                                                        Identification No.)


   2330 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Westwood, Kansas             66205
     (Address of principal executive offices)              (Zip Code)


Registrant's telephone number, including area code (913) 624-3000



 (Former name or  former address, if changed since last report)


          P. O. Box 11315, Kansas City, Missouri 64112
        (Mailing address of principal executive offices)





Item 5.  Other Events.

     1.   Press Release.  On March 6, 2002, the registrant ("Sprint")
announced  a  senior notes offering.  The press  release  was  as
follows:

             Sprint Announces Senior Notes Offering

Kansas City, Mo., - March 6, 2002 - Sprint (NYSE: FON, PCS) announced today that
Sprint Capital Corporation, its wholly owned finance subsidiary, commenced a $2
billion unregistered offering pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S under the
Securities Act of 1933 of two tranches of senior notes, which will be
unconditionally guaranteed by Sprint. Sprint will offer to exchange the
unregistered senior notes for substantially identical registered senior notes
following completion of the offering.

The notes will rank equally with all of Sprint Capital's other unsecured and
unsubordinated indebtedness. The guarantees will rank equally with all of
Sprint's other unsecured and unsubordinated obligations. The specific terms of
the notes will be determined at pricing.

The net proceeds from the offering will be used to repay a portion of Sprint and
Sprint Capital's outstanding commercial paper and for other general corporate
purposes.

The notes have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 or the
securities laws of any state and may not be offered or sold in the United States
absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration
requirements under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws.

About Sprint
Sprint is a global communications company serving more than 23 million business
and residential customers in more than 70 countries. With 80,000-plus employees
worldwide and more than $26 billion in annual revenues, Sprint is widely
recognized for developing, engineering and deploying state of the art network
technologies, including the United States' first nationwide all-digital,
fiber-optic network. Sprint's award-winning Tier 1 Internet backbone is being
extended to key global markets to provide customers with a broad portfolio of
scalable IP products. Sprint's high-capacity, high-speed network gives customers
fast, dependable, non-stop access to the vast majority of the world's Internet
content. Sprint also operates the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide PCS
wireless network in the United States, already serving the majority of the
nation's metropolitan areas including more than 4,000 cities and communities.


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                                    SIGNATURE

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, hereunto duly authorized.


                                SPRINT CORPORATION


Date: March 7, 2002             By: /s/ Michael T. Hyde
                                   Michael T. Hyde
                                   Assistant Secretary