Registration No. 33-57911



               SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                     Washington, D.C. 20549
                    ________________________

                 POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 2
                               TO
                            Form S-8
                     REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                              Under
                   THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                    ________________________

                       SPRINT CORPORATION
     (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

            Kansas                        48-0457967
 (State or other jurisdiction          (I.R.S. Employer
     of incorporation or              Identification No.)
        organization)

       Post Office Box 11315, Kansas City, Missouri  64112
            (Address of principal executive offices)
                    ________________________

                       SPRINT CORPORATION
             MANAGEMENT INCENTIVE STOCK OPTION PLAN
                    (Full title of the Plan)
                    ________________________

                          DON A. JENSEN
                  Vice President and Secretary
                         P.O. Box 11315
                  Kansas City, Missouri  64112
             (Name and address of agent for service)

  Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service:
                         (913) 624-3326
                    ________________________








     This Registration Statement as originally filed related to
the offering of 3,134,600 options to purchase a share of Sprint
Common Stock ("Sprint Common Stock") and 3,134,600 shares of
Sprint Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the options granted
under the Management Incentive Stock Option Plan (the "Plan").
In connection with the spin-off of Sprint's cellular division in
March 1996, the number of options and shares covered by the
Registration Statement was increased to 3,755,107 to prevent
dilution.  Options for 2,281,522 shares of Sprint Common Stock
were exercised prior to the reclassification of Sprint Common
Stock into FON Stock and PCS Stock, leaving 1,473,585 shares of
Sprint Common Stock.  On November 23, 1998, the remaining
1,473,585 shares of Sprint Common Stock were reclassified into
1,473,585 shares of FON Stock and 736,792 shares of PCS Stock.
Options for 1,215,104 shares of FON Stock were exercised before
the record date for a two-for-one split of the FON Stock in the
1999 second quarter, leaving 258,481 shares of FON Stock.  The
two-for-one split of the FON Stock increased the number of shares
of FON Stock covered by the Registration Statement to 516,962
shares of FON Stock.  All of the shares of FON Stock and PCS
Stock covered by the Registration Statement have been issued upon
the exercise of options granted pursuant to the Plan.


























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                           SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,
the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to
believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form
S-8 and has duly caused this Amendment to the Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Westwood, State of
Kansas, on the 18th day of November, 1999.

                              SPRINT CORPORATION

                              By   /s/ Don A. Jensen
                                 (Don A. Jensen, Vice President)


     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,
this Amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed by
the following persons in the capacities and on the date
indicated.

Name                    Title                          Date

                      Chairman of the Board and     )
W. T. ESREY*          Chief Executive Officer       )
                      (Principal Executive Officer) )
                                                    )
                      Executive Vice President      )
                      - Chief Financial Officer     )
/s/ A. B. Krause      (Principal Financial Officer) )
(A. B. Krause)                                      )
                                                    ) November 18, 1999
                                                    )
                      Senior Vice President and     )
JOHN P. MEYER*        Controller                    )
                      (Principal Accounting Officer))
                                                    )
                                                    )
DUBOSE AUSLEY*        Director                      )
                                                    )
                                                    )
W. L. BATTS*          Director                      )
                                                    )
                                                    )
                      Director                      )
(Michel Bon)                                        )
                                                    )
                      Director                      )
(I. O. Hockaday, Jr.)                               )


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H. S. HOOK*           Director                      )
                                                    )
                                                    )
RONALD T. LEMAY*      Director                      )
                                                    )
                                                    )
LINDA K. LORIMER*     Director                      )
                                                    )
                                                    ) November 18, 1999
C.E. RICE*            Director                      )
                                                    )
                      Director                      )
(Louis W. Smith)                                    )
                                                    )
                      Director                      )
(Ron Sommer)                                        )
                                                    )
STEWART TURLEY*       Director                      )
                                                    )




     /s/ A.B. Krause
* (Signed by A.B. Krause, Attorney-in-Fact,
pursuant to Power of Attorney filed with
this Registration Statement No. 33-57911)





















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