Corporate Credit Rating: BBB+/Negative/A-2 Standard&Poor's said today that Sprint Corp.'s credit rating and outlook are not affected by France Telecom's and Deutsche Telekom AG's planned sale of their stakes in Sprint in the first quarter of 2001. While the sale of up to 174.8 million shares could create an oversupply of Sprint shares in the market, possibly delaying Sprint's planned $3 billion new equity offering to the latter half of 2001, the outlook already incorporates the need for the company's equity offering to offset the $2 billion of new debt to fund 2001 capital requirements.