in 2003, sprint began recombining their local telecom, long-distance, wireline, and wireless business units into a new company, marketing the combined company as "one sprint". in april 2004, the separately traded wireless tracking stock, "pcs", was absorbed into the new york stock exchange (nyse) "fon" ticker symbol, sprint's former ticker symbol. (fon stood for "fiber optic network", which was sprint's bragging right, but was also a homophone of the word "phone"). this was challenged in many lawsuits by sprint pcs shareholders claiming the stock was devalued through the ratio of 1 share of pcs stock for 1/2 share of fon stock. sprint agreed to settle with the shareholders for $57.5 million.