Exhibit 5





                                  May 22, 2001



Sprint Corporation
P.O. Box 11315
Kansas City, Missouri  64112


     Re:    2,500,000 shares of PCS Common Stock (par value $1.00
          per  share),  issuable in connection  with  the  Sprint
          Retirement Savings Plan

Gentlemen:

     I have acted as your counsel in connection with the proposed offering and
issuance of an aggregate of 2,500,000 shares of your PCS Common Stock (the "PCS
Shares"), referred to in the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the
"Registration Statement"), to be filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"). In
such connection, I have examined the Registration Statement and I am familiar
with the proceedings taken by your stockholders and your Board of Directors and
officers in connection with the authorization of the PCS Shares, the
recapitalization of your Common Stock into FON Common Stock and PCS Common
Stock, and related matters, and I have reviewed such documents, records, and
matters of law as I have considered necessary for rendering my opinion
hereinafter set forth.

     Based upon the foregoing, I am of the opinion that:

     1.   Sprint Corporation is a corporation duly organized  and
          validly existing under the laws of the State of Kansas.

     2.   The Sprint Retirement Savings Plan and PCS Shares have been duly and
          validly authorized, and when (i) the Registration Statement has become
          effective under the Act and (ii) the PCS Shares are issued and sold in
          the manner and upon the terms set forth in the Sprint Retirement
          Savings Plan, such PCS Shares will be legally issued, fully paid and
          nonassessable.




Sprint Corporation
May 22, 2001
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     I hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement. In giving such consent, I do not thereby admit that I am
in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act.





                                        Very truly yours,

                                        /s/ Michael T. Hyde

                                        Michael T. Hyde