The Sprint campus in Overland Park, Kansas, was inaugurated in the late 1990s. It's a collegial brick complex surrounded by lawns and trees, and built to house about 14,000 employees. Today, were than 6,000 Sprint workers occupy the company's headquarters, and some of the space is leased to other businesses.  

The recent announcement of a Sprint merger with T-Mobilelikely marks the end of an era for our city. The merged company will be led by T-Mobile CEO John Legere. While we wait for what could be a profound change in the Kansas City metro, it’s as good a time as any to consider the various incarnations of a company that has made our city a national hub for telecommunications, driven the local economy and led the area in new patents.

Sprint's history goes back more than a century.