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TeleNav Vehicle Manager from Sprint Receives Top Honors at CTIA

Apr. 3, 2009

Overland Park, Kan. and Sunnyvale, Calif. - April 3, 2009 – Sprint (NYSE: S) and TeleNav are celebrating honors received this week at International CTIA WIRELESS 2009®. TeleNav Vehicle Manager™, available now exclusively from Sprint, received first place at the 4th Annual CTIA Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Awards in the category of Enterprise and Vertical – General Business Solution.

Launched this February, TeleNav Vehicle Manager, powered by Turnpike®, combines vehicle diagnostics and IFTA Fuel Tax filing with GPS-enabled navigation, tracking, wireless forms and wireless timecards. TeleNav Vehicle Manager helps companies of all sizes better manage their day-to-day fleet operations, reduce operating costs and simplify regulatory compliance.

“We’re honored to be recognized by CTIA, especially in collaboration with a key mobile applications partner, TeleNav,” said Tim Donahue, vice president – business marketing, Sprint. “We knew this was an innovative solution that filled a gap in the marketplace. No one else offers this combination of automated dispatch, navigation, fuel cost reduction and fuel tax reporting for the mobile environment.”

“We thank the CTIA for recognizing not only the innovation of the solution, but the value that is brings to our customers,” said Ravi Acharya, associate director of B2B marketing for TeleNav. “TeleNav Vehicle Manager on the Sprint network is a solution that provides the best of GPS and wireless technology but at a much lower price point than many traditional, on-board solutions.”

For more information on TeleNav Vehicle Manager, please visit www.telenavtrack.com.

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About TeleNav Inc.

TeleNav, Inc. is a leading provider of location based services, or LBS, including voice guided navigation, on mobile phones. TeleNav's LBS solutions provide consumers and enterprises with convenient and easy to use location specific, real time and personalized features and functions. TeleNav's flexible and proprietary LBS platform enables it to efficiently provide its LBS to millions of end users, across more than 500 types of mobile phones, all major mobile phone operating systems and a broad range of wireless network protocols. TeleNav's wireless carrier partners include Alltel, AT&T, Bell Mobility, Boost Mobile, China Mobile, Cincinnati Bell, NII Holdings, Rogers, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile UK, T-Mobile USA, Telcel, Telecom Italia Mobile, Verizon Wireless and Vivo Brazil. TeleNav's other partners include Ford Motor Company, Hewlett-Packard, HTC, INRIX, LG, Motorola, NAVTEQ, Nokia, Palm, Qualcomm, Research In Motion, Samsung, Sanyo and Tele Atlas. TeleNav is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

For more information on TeleNav, please visit www.telenav.com.

About Sprint Nextel

Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers, businesses and government users. Sprint Nextel is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including two wireless networks serving more than 49 million customers at the end of the fourth quarter 2008; industry-leading mobile data services; instant national and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone. For more information, visit www.sprint.com.

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