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Exhibit 4.2




FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE




dated as of August 12, 2005




TO




INDENTURE




dated as of January 26, 2000




by and among




NEXTEL COMMUNICATIONS, INC.,




as Issuer,




and




BNY MIDWEST TRUST COMPANY,




as Trustee





 









 








FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE




     This FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (the “First Supplemental Indenture”) dated as of
August 12, 2005, by and among Nextel Communications, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
“Company”), Sprint Corporation, a Kansas corporation (“Sprint”), S-N Merger Corp.,
a Delaware corporation (“Successor”), and BNY Midwest Trust Company, Company (as successor
to Harris Trust and Savings Bank) as trustee under the indenture referred to below (the
“Trustee”).



W I T N E S S E T H :




     WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee an Indenture, dated
as of January 26, 2000 (the “Indenture”), providing for the issuance of its 5 1/4%
Convertible Senior Notes due January 15, 2010 (the “Notes”) of which $607,200,000 aggregate
principal amount have been issued and are outstanding on the date hereof;



     WHEREAS, on the date hereof, the Company will be merged (the “Merger”) with and into
the Successor, pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in a Certificate of Merger to be
filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on the date hereof, resulting in
Successor becoming the successor to and obligor on the Notes and all of the Company’s obligations
under the Indenture;



     WHEREAS, Section 11 of the Indenture permits the Company to merge into another Person, if such
Person is the Surviving Entity, so long as, certain conditions have been met;



     WHEREAS, as a result of the Merger, Successor will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Sprint and
pursuant to the Merger, shares of Sprint FON Series 1 common stock, par value $2.00 per share
(“Common Stock”) will be issued to holders of Nextel’s common stock in exchange for such
shares of Nextel’s common stock and therefore, as a result, pursuant to section 14.6 of the
Indenture, the Notes will be convertible into shares of Sprint common stock in place of Nextel’s
common stock into which the Notes are currently convertible;



     WHEREAS, Section 14.6 of the Indenture provides that, in the event of any consolidation,
merger or combination of the Company with another person as a result of which holders of the
Company’s common stock are entitled to receive stock, other securities or other property or assets
(including cash) with respect to or in exchange for such Company common stock, the Company or the
successor or purchasing person, as the case may be, is required to execute with the Trustee a
supplemental indenture (which shall comply with the Trust Indenture Act as in force at the date of
execution of each supplemental indenture) providing for the Notes to be convertible into the kind
and amount of shares of stock, other securities or other property or assets (including cash)
receivable upon such consolidation, merger, combination by a holder of a number of shares of
Company common stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes and providing for adjustments which
shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments provided for in Article XIV
of the Indenture; and



     WHEREAS, Section 10.1 of the Indenture provides that, without the consent of the Holders of
any Notes, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at



 









 







any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more supplemental indentures to (i)
evidence the succession of another Person to the Company, and the assumption by any such successor
of the covenants of the Company under the Indenture and in the Notes, (ii) make provision with
respect to the conversion rights of the Holders of the Notes pursuant to the requirements of
Section 14.6 of the Indenture, and/or (iii) grant the Noteholders such other or further rights, as
the Board of Directors and the Trustee shall consider to be for the benefit of the holders of the
Notes;



     WHEREAS, all things necessary to authorize the assumption by Successor of the Company’s
obligations under the Indenture and to make this First Supplemental Indenture when executed by the
parties hereto a valid and binding supplement to the Indenture have been done and performed.



     NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto mutually covenant
and agree for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes as follows:



               1. Definitions. Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the
meanings assigned to them in the Indenture. For all purposes of this First Supplemental Indenture,
except as otherwise herein expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires: (i) the
terms and expressions used herein shall have the same meanings as corresponding terms and
expressions used in the Indenture; and (ii) the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereby” and other
words of similar import used in this First Supplemental Indenture refer to this First Supplemental
Indenture as a whole and not to any particular section hereof.



               2. Assumption of Obligations. As a result of the merger of the Company with and into
Successor, Successor will become the successor obligor under the Notes and, as of the effective
time of the Merger, Successor hereby expressly assumes the due and punctual payment of the
principal and any premium of and interest on all the Notes and the performance and observance of
every covenant and condition of the Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or
observed, as required by Section 11.1 of the Indenture, and, thereafter, all references in the
Indenture, as amended hereby, to “the Company” shall be deemed to be references to Successor, as
successor by merger to the Company under the Indenture.



               3. Issuance of Sprint Common Stock. As of the effective time of the Merger, Sprint
hereby agrees that, pursuant to Section 14.6 of the Indenture, it will have reserved a sufficient
number of shares of its Common Stock into which the Notes shall be convertible, and, thereafter,
upon conversion of the Notes, it will issue shares of its Common Stock and cash in an amount equal
to the number of shares of its Common Stock and cash otherwise receivable by a holder of the
Company’s common stock in the Merger in proportion to the amount of such shares and cash that a
holder of Notes would have received had such holder converted its Notes immediately prior to the
Merger, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Indenture and the Notes. The
adjustments provided for in Article Fourteen of the Indenture shall apply as nearly equivalent as
may be practicable to Sprint and its Common Stock as those that apply immediately prior to the
Merger to the Company and the Company’s common stock, respectively.



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               4. Sprint Guarantee.



               4.1 Subject to Section 4.13 hereof, Sprint hereby, jointly and severally with any other Person
who may also guarantee the Guaranteed Obligations (as defined below), unconditionally and
irrevocably guarantees (the “Guarantee”), on a senior unsecured basis, as a primary obligor
and not as a surety, to each Holder of Notes and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns the
full and punctual payment when due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, redemption or otherwise,
of the principal of and interest on, if any, the Notes only if lawful, and all other monetary
obligations of the Successor under the Indenture, in so far as such monetary obligations relate to
the Notes (collectively, the “Guaranteed Obligations”). Subject to Section 4.13 hereof,
Sprint further agrees that the Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in
part, without notice or further assent from Sprint, and Sprint shall remain bound under its
Guarantee and the Indenture, as amended hereby, notwithstanding any such extension or renewal.
Subject to Section 4.13 hereof, failing payment when due of any amount so guaranteed for whatever
reason, Sprint will be obligated to pay the same in full, or cause to be duly and punctually paid
in full, without any demand or notice whatsoever.



               4.2 Subject to Section 4.13 hereof, Sprint hereby waives presentation to, demand of payment
from and protest to the Successor of any of the Guaranteed Obligations and also waives notice of
protest for nonpayment. Sprint also hereby waives notice of any default by the Successor under the
Notes or the Indenture. Subject to Section 4.13 hereof, Sprint agrees that its obligations under
its Guarantee shall be continuing, absolute, full and unconditional under any and all
circumstances, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and shall not be discharged
except by payment in full of the Notes, irrespective of:



               (a) the value, genuineness, regularity, validity, enforceability, avoidance, subordination,
discharge or disaffirmance of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, the Notes or the Indenture, or the
absence of any action to enforce the same;



               (b) any extension or waiver, at any time or from time to time, without notice to Sprint, of
the time for compliance by the Successor with any of its obligations under the Notes or the
Indenture;



               (c) any substitution, release or exchange of any other guarantee of or security for any
obligations of the Successor under the Notes or the Indenture;



               (d) any recission, amendment or modification to any of the terms or provisions of the Notes or
the Indenture;



               (e) any law, regulation or order of any jurisdiction affecting any term of any of the Notes or
the Indenture or the rights of any Holder of Notes or the Trustee with respect thereto;



               (f) any failure to obtain any authorization or approval from, or other action by, to notify,
or to file anything with, any governmental authority or regulatory body required in connection with
the performance of the Guarantee by Sprint;



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               (g) the failure by any Holder of Notes or the Trustee to assert any claim or demand or to
exercise any right or remedy against the Successor or any other guarantor of the Guaranteed
Obligations or any other Person;



               (h) the failure by any Holder of Notes or the Trustee to exercise any right or remedy against
any collateral securing any of the Guaranteed Obligations; or



               (i) any other circumstance whatsoever that might otherwise constitute a defense to or a legal
or equitable discharge of Sprint’s obligations, in its capacity as guarantor, under its Guarantee
or of Sprint’s obligations under the Notes and the Indenture.



               4.3 Subject to Section 4.13 hereof, Sprint’s obligations under its Guarantee, the Indenture,
and the Notes shall not be limited by any valuation, estimation or disallowance made in connection
with any proceedings filed by or against Sprint under the United States Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as
amended (the “Bankruptcy Code”), whether pursuant to Section 502 of the Bankruptcy Code or
any other section thereof. Subject to Section 4.13 hereof, Sprint further agrees that, in its
capacity as guarantor, none of the Holders of Notes shall be under any obligation to marshall any
assets in favor of or against or in payment of any or all of the Guaranteed Obligations or the
Notes. To the extent that Sprint makes a payment or payments on any or all of the Guaranteed
Obligations and such payment or payments (or any part thereof) is or are subsequently invalidated,
declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required to be repaid to Sprint, its
estate, trustee or receiver or any other party, including, without limitation, Sprint, under any
bankruptcy law, state or federal law, common law or equitable cause, then to the extent of such
payment or repayment, the Guaranteed Obligations (or, if applicable, such part thereof as had been
paid, reduced or satisfied by such amount), shall be reinstated and revived and continued in full
force and effect as of the date such initial payment, reduction or satisfaction occurred. Subject
to Section 4.13 hereof, Sprint waives all set-offs, counterclaims, reductions and diminutions of
any obligation, and any defense of any kind or nature (other than, payment of the Guaranteed
Obligations), that Sprint may have or assert against the Successor or any other Person, and all
presentments, demands for performance, notices of nonperformance, protests, notices of protest,
notices of dishonor and notices of acceptance of its Guarantee.



               4.4 Subject to Section 4.13 hereof, Sprint hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives (i)
any defense arising by reason of any claim or defense based upon an election of remedies by any
Holder of Notes that in any manner impairs, reduces, releases or otherwise adversely affects the
subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution or indemnification rights of Sprint or other
rights of the Successor to proceed against the Successor or any other guarantor or any other Person
or collateral, if any, and (ii) any defense based on any right of set-off or counterclaim against
or in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations, the Notes or this First Supplemental Indenture.



               4.5 Subject to Section 4.13 hereof, Sprint hereby waives any right to which it may be entitled
to have its obligations under the Guarantee and the Indenture divided among it and other guarantors
of the Guaranteed Obligations, if any, such that Sprint’s obligations would be less than the full
amount claimed. Subject to Section 4.13 hereof, Sprint hereby waives any right to which it may be
entitled to have the assets of the Successor or any other Person who became an “obligor” under the
Notes or the Indenture first be used and depleted as payment of



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the obligations of the Successor or such other Person, respectively, under the Notes and the
Indenture prior to any amounts being claimed from or paid by Sprint under its Guarantee. Subject
to Section 4.13 hereof, Sprint hereby waives any right to which it may be entitled to require that
suit be instituted against the Successor or any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations or
“obligor” under the Notes or the Indenture prior to an action being initiated against Sprint.
Subject to Section 4.13 hereof, Sprint further agrees that the Guarantee constitutes a guarantee of
payment when due (and not a guarantee of collection) and waives any right, in its capacity as
guarantor, to require that any resort be had by any Holder of Notes or the Trustee to any security
held for payment of the Guaranteed Obligations.



               4.6 The failure to endorse the Guarantee on any Security shall not affect or impair the
validity thereof.



               4.7 Sprint’s obligations under its Guarantee shall not be affected if any Holder of Notes is
precluded for any reason (including, without limitation, the application of the automatic stay
under Section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code) from enforcing or exercising any right or remedy with
respect to the Notes, and Sprint shall pay to each affected Holder of Notes, upon demand, the
amount that would otherwise have been due and payable had the exercise of such rights and remedies
been permitted. In the event of any such application of the automatic stay under Section 362 of
the Bankruptcy Code, the Notes shall forthwith become due and payable by Sprint for purposes of the
Guarantee.



               4.8 Subject to Section 4.13 hereof, Sprint hereby agrees that, unless and until all
obligations with respect to the Notes and the Indenture have been paid in full, in its capacity as
guarantor, it shall have no right (whether direct or indirect) of subrogation (whether contractual,
under Section 509 of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise) to the claims of any Holder of Notes or the
Trustee against the Successor or any other Person who became an “obligor” under the Notes or the
Indenture in respect of any obligation with respect to the Notes or the Indenture, notwithstanding
any payment or payments made by Sprint hereunder or any set-off or application of funds of Sprint
or by the Holder of Notes; and Sprint hereby waives all contractual, statutory and common law
rights of reimbursement, contribution or indemnity it may have against the Successor or any other
such Person as the case may be, and any and all other rights of payment or recovery from the
Successor or any other such Person, as the case may be, that it may now have or hereafter acquire
until all Notes and all obligations under the Indenture in respect of the Notes have been paid in
full (in which event such rights of payment or recovery shall be deemed to be in the form of a loan
or loans made from the Sprint to the Successor or any other such Person, as the case may be.
Subject to Section 4.13 hereof, Sprint further agrees that as between Sprint, on the one hand, and
the Holders of Notes and the Trustee, on the other hand, (1) the maturity of the Notes guaranteed
hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article Five of the Indenture for the purposes of Sprint’s
Guarantee hereunder, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such
acceleration in respect of the Notes guaranteed pursuant to this Section 2, and (2) in the event of
any declaration of acceleration of such Notes as provided in Article Five of the Indenture, such
Notes (whether or not due and payable) will forthwith become due and payable by Sprint for the
purpose of its Guarantee hereunder.



               4.9 Except as otherwise specifically provided in Section 4.12 hereof with respect to the
release of Sprint from its Guarantee hereunder and, subject to Section 4.13 hereof,



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such Guarantee shall remain in full force and effect and be binding in accordance with and to
the extent of its terms upon Sprint and the successors thereof, and shall inure to the benefit of
(and be enforceable by) the Trustee and the Holders of Notes from time to time, or their respective
successors or assignees, until the Indenture shall have been terminated and the principal of and
interest, if any, on the Notes, and the obligations of Sprint in respect of the Guaranteed
Obligations, have been satisfied by payment in full.



               4.10 Payments made by Sprint pursuant to its Guarantee hereunder will be made to each Holder
of Notes in the same manner, and to the same location, as payments to such Holder of Notes are
required to be made pursuant to the provisions of the Indenture.



               4.11 Sprint shall pay all reasonable costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees
and expenses) paid or incurred by the Trustee or any Holder of Notes in connection with the
enforcement of the Guarantee or any other rights of the Trustee or such Holder of Notes under the
Notes, the Indenture or this First Supplemental Indenture with respect to such Guarantee and the
prosecution or defense of any action by or against any of the Holder of Notes in connection with
the Guarantee, the Indenture or this First Supplemental Indenture with respect to such Guarantee,
whether involving Sprint or any other Person, including a trustee in bankruptcy; provided,
however, that Sprint shall have no such obligation in connection with any action brought by
any Holder of Notes against Sprint to the extent that the Successor is the prevailing party in the
judgment rendered in any such action; and provided further that Sprint shall not be
responsible for the fees and expenses of more than one firm of attorneys (in addition to any
required local counsel).



               4.12 Sprint may, by execution and delivery to the Trustee of a supplemental indenture
satisfactory to the Trustee, be released from its Guarantee upon the sale or other transfer of its
capital stock or of all or substantially all of its assets to an entity that is not Sprint or a
subsidiary of Sprint and which sale is otherwise in compliance with the Indenture, which release
shall be effective without any action on the part of the Trustee or any Holder of Notes. Upon any
such release, the Trustee shall deliver an appropriate instrument evidencing such release upon
receipt of a request by Sprint accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate certifying as to compliance
with this Section 4.12. Any actions taken pursuant to this Section 4.12 shall not release the
Successor as a primary obligor under the Indenture or the Notes.



               4.13 Notwithstanding the forgoing, the Guarantee and Sprint’s obligations in respect of the
Guaranteed Obligations shall automatically terminate upon effectiveness of a registration statement
registering the offer and sale of the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes
pursuant to Article Fourteen of the Indenture, after which time Sprint shall have no further
obligations under this Section 4.



               5. Separability Clause. In case any provision in this First Supplemental Indenture
shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the
remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.



               6. Modification, Amendment and Waiver. The provisions of this First Supplemental
Indenture may not be amended, supplemented, modified or waived, unless otherwise provided in the
Indenture, except by the execution of a supplemental indenture



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executed by the Company, and, to the extent such amendment, supplement or waiver adversely
affects the rights of any Holders, with the Required Consent of such Holders. Any such amendment
or supplemental indenture shall comply with Article Ten of the Indenture. Notwithstanding the
forgoing, the parties hereby acknowledge that any modification, amendment or waiver to Section 4 of
this First Supplemental Indenture shall not be deemed to adversely affect the rights of any
Holders. Until an amendment, waiver or other action by Holders becomes effective, a consent
thereto by a Holder of a Security hereunder is a continuing consent by the Holder and every
subsequent Holder of that Security or portion of the Security that evidences the same obligation as
the consenting Holder’s Security, even if notation of the consent, waiver or action is not made on
the Security. After an amendment, waiver or action becomes effective, it shall bind every Holder.



               7. Ratification of Indenture; First Supplemental Indenture Part of the Indenture.
Except as expressly amended hereby, the Indenture is in all respects ratified and confirmed and all
the terms, conditions and provisions thereof shall remain in full force and effect. In the event
of a conflict between the terms and conditions of the Indenture and the terms and conditions of
this First Supplemental Indenture, then the terms and conditions of this First Supplemental
Indenture shall prevail. This First Supplemental Indenture shall form a part of the Indenture for
all purposes, and every holder of Notes heretofore or hereafter authenticated and delivered shall
be bound hereby.



               8. Trust Indenture Act Controls. If any provision of this First Supplemental
Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with any provision of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended (“TIA”), that is required under the TIA to be part of and govern any provision of
this First Supplemental Indenture, the provision of the TIA shall control. If any provision of
this First Supplemental Indenture modifies or excludes any provisions of the TIA that may be so
modified or excluded, the provisions of the TIA shall be deemed to apply to the Indenture as so
modified or to be excluded by this First Supplemental Indenture, as the case may be.



               9. Governing Law. THIS FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AS APPLIED TO CONTRACTS MADE AND
PERFORMED WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO THE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW.



               10. Trustee Makes No Representation. The statements herein are deemed to be those of
the Company. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this First
Supplemental Indenture.



               11. Multiple Originals. The parties may sign any number of copies of this First
Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent
the same agreement. One signed copy is enough to prove this First Supplemental Indenture.



               12. Effect of Headings. The Section headings herein are for convenience only and
shall not effect the construction thereof.



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               13. Notices. Any request, demand, authorization, notice, waiver, consent or
communication to any of the parties shall be made as set forth in Section 15.3 of the Indenture.



               14. Successors. All agreements of the Company in respect of this First Supplemental
Indenture shall bind its successor.



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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this First Supplemental Indenture has been duly executed by the Company,
Sprint, Successor and the Trustee as of the date first written above.



	 	 	 	 	 
	 	NEXTEL COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Gary D. Begeman
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Gary D. Begeman 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Vice President 	 
	 
	 	SPRINT CORPORATION

 	 
	 	By:  	                      /s/ Charles R. Wunsch
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Charles R. Wunsch 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Vice President 	 
	 
	 	S-N MERGER CORP.

 	 
	 	By:  	                      /s/ Charles R. Wunsch
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Charles R. Wunsch 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Vice President 	 
	 
	 	BNY MIDWEST TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ D.G. Donovan
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	D.G. Donovan 	 
	 	 	Title:  	Vice President