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Friday, June 13, 2008

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Sprint Gets Aggressive With New Rate Plans

- Warner Crocker

Sprint logoSprint is getting aggressive with its new rate plans and simplifying shopping, especially for those who want to take advantage of family or shared minutes options. Sprint is saying it is as simple as 1–2–3. After shaking the market up a bit earlier this year with the Unlimited Everything Plan, they’ve now made it easier and quite a bit less expensive for those wishing to share plans. If you need to add a line to your plan it will now only cost $9.99 for talk and messaging or $19.99 for talk, messaging and data. The big departure here is that the rates are much lower for those additional lines.

As an example, on a shared plan between two lines rates for 1500 minutes and unlimited data and messaging are now $129.99.

Sprint has published a comparative rate sheet in their press release so you can see gauge the differences between carriers yourself. Check it out here. The new plans go into effect on June 15 and existing customers can take advantage of this without extending their current contract.

There is no word on Sprint’s efforts at capping data service on smartphones here, and we had heard previously that phone as modem plans would be capped at 5GB, as well as data cards. No word on if the same is true or not with these “unlimited” plans.

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Friday, June 13, 2008 9:24:34 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Great. Now if only they'd get aggressive with providing service. I know I should expect poor reception in the wooded suburbs, but I live a mile from Sprint headquarters. You'd think I'd get a bar or two.
Friday, June 13, 2008 9:39:04 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
It matters very little while they subsidize hardware and require you to pay through the nose to get out of your contract.
Friday, June 13, 2008 10:46:35 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
It's not that hard to get out of the contracts...

But even so, I have yet to have any coverage issues given that Sprint, Verizon, and Alltel generally share towers depending on where you are. Then again, I have a decent phone (the Mogul) and keep it updated with the latest PRL update and radio firmwares.

That's more than I can say about Verizon, considering their version of the Mogul is still using a firmware from last summer despite 3 updates to the PPC-6800 series and a 4th one pending for this/next month.

Now calling customer service, on the other hand, that's a whole other matter. That is truly an exercise in patience most of the time.
GoodThings2Life
Friday, June 13, 2008 10:48:51 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
PS-- Sumocat, that's not a slight against you on the coverage issue. I have some coworkers on Sprint who have bad coverage even in the same building. One of them has a Palm Treo and the other has an older Nokia. Both of them updated the PRL (Preferred Roaming List, for those unfamiliar with the term), and their coverage improved drastically.
GoodThings2Life
Friday, June 13, 2008 11:41:47 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
GT2L: No worries. I know it's YMMV with phone service, but one would think I'd get a decent signal in Sprint's backyard. I live literally two streets over from their HQ in Reston, VA, and our reception is so bad, we had to get a landline again. It's pretty damn silly.
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