Registration No. 33-59316




               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)
                    ________________________

                    CENTEL STOCK OPTION PLAN
                    (Full title of the Plan)
                    ________________________

                         THOMAS A. GERKE
Vice President, Corporate Secretary and Associate General Counsel
                         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 2,534,450 shares of Sprint Common Stock ("Sprint
Common  Stock") issuable under the Centel Stock Option Plan.   In
connection  with  the spin-off of Sprint's cellular  division  in
March  1996,  the  number of shares covered by  the  Registration
Statement  was increased to 2,627,697 shares to prevent dilution.
Options   for   2,324,390  shares  were  exercised   before   the
reclassification of each share of Sprint Common  Stock  into  one
share  of FON Common Stock and one-half of a share of PCS  Common
Stock, and the conversion of the options into options to purchase
FON   Common   Stock  and  PCS  Common  Stock.    Following   the
reclassification, options for 46,951 shares of FON  Common  Stock
were exercised before the record date for a two-for-one split  of
the  FON  Comon Stock in the 1999 second quarter, leaving 256,356
shares  of  FON Common Stock.  The two-for-one split of  the  FON
Common  Stock  increased the remaining number of  shares  of  FON
Common  Stock  covered by the Registration Statement  to  512,712
shares.   Following  the  reclassification,  options  for  20,153
shares of PCS Common Stock were exercised before the record  date
for  a  two-for-one split of the PCS  Common Stock  in  the  2000
first  quarter, leaving 131,500 shares of PCS Common Stock.   The
two-for-one split of the PCS Common Stock increased the remaining
number  of shares of PCS Common Stock covered by the Registration
Statement to 263,000 shares.

     Following  the  split of the FON Common Stock,  options  for
177,598  shares of FON Common Stock were exercised, and following
the  split of the PCS Common Stock, options for 95,456 shares  of
PCS  Common Stock were exercised, leaving 335,114 shares  of  FON
Common  Stock and 167,544 shares of PCS Common Stock.  No options
are  outstanding and no additional options will be granted  under
the  plan.  Therefore, the Registration  Statement is amended  to
deregister the remaining 335,114 shares of FON Common  Stock  and
167,544  shares  of PCS Common Stock covered by the  Registration
Statement.




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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 24th day of September, 2001.

                              SPRINT CORPORATION

                              By   /s/ A. B. Krause
                                   (A. B. Krause, Executive 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   )
                        (Principal Financial        )
/s/ A. B. Krause        Officer)                    )
(A. B. Krause)                                      )
                                                    )
                                                    )
                        Senior Vice President and   )
                        Controller                  )
                        (Principal Accounting       )
/s/ J. P. Meyer         Officer)                    )  September 24, 2001
(J. P. Meyer)                                       )
                                                    )
                                                    )
D. AUSLEY*              Director                    )
                                                    )
                                                    )
W. L. BATTS*            Director                    )
                                                    )
                                                    )
                                                    )
(I.O. Hockaday, Jr.)    Director                    )


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(R. T. LeMay)           Director                   )
                                                   )
                                                   )
L. K. LORIMER*          Director                   )
                                                   )
                                                   )
C. E. RICE*             Director                   )
                                                   )  September 24, 2001
                                                   )
                        Director                   )
(Louis W. Smith)                                   )
                                                   )
                                                   )
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. 33-59316)





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