Exhibit 3(c)


                           CERTIFICATE OF ELIMINATION
                                       OF
                  DESIGNATIONS OF PREFERRED STOCK-EIGHTH SERIES
                                       OF
                               SPRINT CORPORATION

                       Pursuant to K.S.A. Section 17-6401

     SPRINT CORPORATION,  a corporation organized and existing under the laws of
the State of Kansas (the  "Corporation"),  in accordance  with the provisions of
K.S.A. Section 17-6401, as amended, hereby certifies as follows:

     1.  That  the  voting  powers,  designations,   preferences  and  relative,
participating,  optional and other rights, and the  qualifications,  limitations
and  restrictions  of  the  Corporation's  Preferred  Stock-Eighth  Series  were
provided  for  in a  resolution  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the
Corporation on June 29, 1998 pursuant to the authority expressly vested in it by
the provisions of the Corporation's  Articles of Incorporation,  as amended. The
Corporation subsequently filed in the Office of the Secretary of State of Kansas
a Certificate of Designation setting forth said resolution.

     2. That no shares of said Preferred Stock-Eighth Series are outstanding and
no shares  will be issued.

     3.  That,  at a duly  called  meeting  of the  Board  of  Directors  of the
Corporation, the following resolution was adopted:

          RESOLVED,  that  none  of  the  authorized  shares  of  the  Preferred
     Stock-Eighth  Series of the  Corporation  are  outstanding and none of such
     shares will be issued,  and that the  officers of the  Corporation  be, and
     each of them hereby is,  authorized  and directed to file a Certificate  of
     Elimination  of  such  Preferred  Stock-Eighth  Series  of the  Corporation
     setting forth this resolution with the Secretary of State of Kansas for the
     purpose of eliminating from the Articles of  Incorporation,  as amended and
     restated,  of the Corporation  all reference to the Preferred  Stock-Eighth
     Series of the Corporation.

     4. That, accordingly, all references to the Preferred Stock-Eighth Series
of the Corporation be, and they hereby are, eliminated from the Articles of
Incorporation, as amended and restated, of the Corporation.






     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, SPRINT CORPORATION has caused this Certificate to be
signed by Claudia S. Toussaint, Vice President, and attested to by Michael T.
Hyde, Assistant Secretary, as of this 23rd day of April, 2004.


                              SPRINT CORPORATION


                              /s/ Claudia S. Toussaint
                              ___________________________
                              Claudia S. Toussaint
                              Vice President

ATTEST:


/s/ Michael T. Hyde
__________________________
Michael T. Hyde
Assistant Secretary












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