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

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Long-term Debt and Capital Lease Obligations [Abstract]

Schedule of Long-term Debt Instruments

	Interest Rates			Maturities			March 31, 2016			March 31, 2015
							(in millions)
Notes
Senior notes
Sprint Corporation	7.13	-	7.88%	2021	-	2025	$	10,500		$	10,500
Sprint Communications, Inc.	6.00	-	11.50%	2016	-	2022	9,280			9,280
Sprint Capital Corporation	6.88	-	8.75%	2019	-	2032	6,204			6,204
Guaranteed notes
Sprint Communications, Inc.	7.00	-	9.00%	2018	-	2020	4,000			4,000
Secured notes
Clearwire Communications LLC (1)	14.75%			2016			300			300
Exchangeable notes
Clearwire Communications LLC (1)	8.25%			2040			629			629
Credit facilities
Bank credit facility	3.94%			2018			—			—
Export Development Canada (EDC)	4.16	-	5.91%	2017	-	2019	550			800
Secured equipment credit facilities	2.02	-	2.75%	2017	-	2021	805			610
Financing obligations	2.02	-	6.10%	2017	-	2021	828			275
Capital lease obligations and other	2.35	-	10.52%	2016	-	2023	265			127
Net premiums and debt financing costs							597			917
							33,958			33,642
Less current portion							(4,690		)	(1,300		)
Long-term debt, financing and capital lease obligations							$	29,268		$	32,342

Schedule of Maturities of Long-term Debt

Aggregate amount of maturities for long-term debt, financing and capital lease obligations outstanding as of March 31, 2016, were as follows (in millions):

Fiscal year 2016	$	4,615
Fiscal year 2017	2,065
Fiscal year 2018	3,201
Fiscal year 2019	3,177
Fiscal year 2020	1,625
Fiscal year 2021 and thereafter	18,678
	33,361
Net premiums and debt financing costs	597
	$	33,958