Long-Term Debt, Financing and Capital Lease Obligations (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2014

Long-term Debt and Capital Lease Obligations [Abstract]

Schedule of Long-term Debt Instruments

							Successor						Predecessor
	Interest Rates			Maturities			March 31, 2014			December 31, 2013			December 31, 2012
							(in millions)
Notes
Senior notes
Sprint Corporation	7.13	-	7.88%	2021	-	2024	$	9,000		$	9,000		$	—
Sprint Communications, Inc.	6.00	-	11.50%	2016	-	2022	9,280			9,280			9,280
Sprint Capital Corporation	6.88	-	8.75%	2019	-	2032	6,204			6,204			6,204
Guaranteed notes
Sprint Communications, Inc.	7.00	-	9.00%	2018	-	2020	4,000			4,000			4,000
Secured notes
iPCS, Inc.	3.49%			2014			181			181			481
Clearwire Communications LLC (1)	14.75%			2016			300			300			—
Exchangeable notes
Clearwire Communications LLC (1)	8.25%			2040			629			629			—
Convertible bonds
Sprint Communications, Inc.	1.00%			2019			—			—			3,100
Credit facilities
Bank credit facility	2.75%			2018			—			—			—
Export Development Canada	3.58%			2015			500			500			500
Secured equipment credit facility	2.03%			2017			762			889			296
Vendor financing notes	5.74	-	7.24%	2015			13			20			—
Financing obligation	6.09%			2021			327			339			698
Capital lease obligations and other	2.35	-	10.52%	2014	-	2023	174			187			74
Net discount from beneficial conversion feature on convertible bond							—			—			(247		)
Net premiums (discounts)							1,408			1,482			(45		)
							32,778			33,011			24,341
Less current portion							(991		)	(994		)	(379		)
Long-term debt, financing and capital lease obligations							$	31,787		$	32,017		$	23,962

Schedule of Maturities of Long-term Debt [Table Text Block]

Aggregate amount of maturities for long-term debt, financing obligation and capital lease obligations outstanding as of March 31, 2014, were as follows (in millions):

Fiscal year 2014	$	991
Fiscal year 2015	845
Fiscal year 2016	3,622
Fiscal year 2017	1,358
Fiscal year 2018	3,047
Fiscal year 2019 and thereafter	21,507
	31,370
Net premiums	1,408
	$	32,778