Is sprint REALLY cheaper than Verizon?

[ttwiitch]

I tried looking into T-Mobile today for the exact same plan I have on Sprint paying $246 for 5 lines. I chose 5 GS4, unlimited everything family, and it totals over $310! Hell no.....so I imagine Verizon is even worse!

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[GiantJay]

If you chose 5 S4s then you would be paying $100 a month for the phones, $20 each plus the phone bill.

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[Almeuit]

If you chose 5 S4s then you would be paying $100 a month for the phones, $20 each plus the phone bill.

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This.

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[ttwiitch]

If you chose 5 S4s then you would be paying $100 a month for the phones, $20 each plus the phone bill.

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That's exactly what I did. Pic shows total.

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[HawaiiD]

I tried looking into T-Mobile today for the exact same plan I have on Sprint paying $246 for 5 lines. I chose 5 GS4, unlimited everything family, and it totals over $310! Hell no.....so I imagine Verizon is even worse!

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Is that with corporate discount?

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[HawaiiD]

I tried looking into T-Mobile today for the exact same plan I have on Sprint paying $246 for 5 lines. I chose 5 GS4, unlimited everything family, and it totals over $310! Hell no.....so I imagine Verizon is even worse!

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I was a former Sprint customer.

Just to make sure about pricing ?
I went to Sprints website.
Unlimited everything family for 2 lines is 209.00.then each additional line is 99.99 dollars. That's 500.00
A month right there.

If you go with the simply everything 1500 shared it is 149.00 for 2 lines included. Then 3 more lines at
29.99 each X 3 = 90.00?149.99 =239.00+30 premium data each phone =269.00. That's before taxes. Unless you have corporate discount no way is your bill 240 and change? If you have insurance? It will be even higher.

You take the 310.00 of T- mobile
Say you apply that same discount
I'd say 20%(assuming you have one based on your sprint bill) Which would take off
65.00 dollars off of the 310.00
It would be 245.00 before taxes.
Which let's say is was wash in price for both plans? After 24 months or if you pay off phones sooner? Your bill will drop another 100.00 dollars a month. Let's say maybe your bill would be 150-160 dollars for 5 lines unlimited everything there after?

I recently switched over to T-mobile. I did pay off 2 htc ones. With insurance for both and unlimited data for me and 2.5GB for my wife? My total bill is 126.00 with 15% discount. I was paying 160.00 with 24% discount with sprint 1500 simply everything plan with 2 lines.

T-mobile plans also includes wifi /hotspot tethering in their plans, along with free wifi calling from anywhere in the world,
And HD voice(which is a really awesome feature)

Here's the kicker.
For me anyway.
I was getting 100kb download speeds with Sprint with no LTE or nv in Hawaii. Now with T-mobile not only is it cheaper monthly, I get 30 MB downloads 25+MB upload speed
On LTE. And if that drops out? It goes to the HSPA+ 15-22 MB download as back up.

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[gabbott]

If you go with the simply everything 1500 shared it is 149.00 for 2 lines included. Then 3 more lines at
29.99 each X 3 = 90.00?149.99 =239.00+30 premium data each phone =269.00. That's before taxes. Unless you have corporate discount no way is your bill 240 and change? If you have insurance? It will be even higher.

Those 3 additional lines at 29.99 ea already include the $10 data charge. (it's 19.99 a line plus $10 for data). So for your example, it would be $239 plus tax, NOT $269. You added an additional $30 that didn't need to be.


I have the 1500 shared plan with 4 lines (3 smartphones and 1 standard phone). I have a corp discount of 23% on my first line. My total bill with taxes comes out to just under $210.

Lines 1 and 2: $149 (this price includes the premium data charge)
Line 3: $29.99 (this price includes the premium data charge)
Line 4: $19.99

My 23% discount is off only a certain portion of the Lines 1 and 2 total as they only discount 1 line.

 

[Almeuit]

I was a former Sprint customer.

Just to make sure about pricing ?
I went to Sprints website.
Unlimited everything family for 2 lines is 209.00.then each additional line is 99.99 dollars. That's 500.00
A month right there.



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What!? No one charges 99.99 a line on a family plan....


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[HawaiiD]

What!? No one charges 99.99 a line on a family plan....


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Unless I am reading it wrong it says lines 3-5 $99.99/line smartphone
For the 209.00 family simply everything plan. If that's is wrong?
I apologize
You might have to scroll down and click on the featured family plans tab. To view the family plan details

http://m.sprint.com/mdot/shop/plans/plan_detail.html

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[Aquila]

Unless I am reading it wrong it says lines 3-5 $99.99/line smartphone
For the 209.00 family simply everything plan. If that's is wrong?
I apologize
You might have to scroll down and click on the featured family plans tab. To view the family plan details

Sprint Cell Phone Plans: Talk, Text, Data & Simply Everything

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$209 for the first two lines + $99.99 for each additional (up to 5 total lines) is what I'm reading too...

 

[HawaiiD]

Those 3 additional lines at 29.99 ea already include the $10 data charge. (it's 19.99 a line plus $10 for data). So for your example, it would be $239 plus tax, NOT $269. You added an additional $30 that didn't need to be.


I have the 1500 shared plan with 4 lines (3 smartphones and 1 standard phone). I have a corp discount of 23% on my first line. My total bill with taxes comes out to just under $210.

Lines 1 and 2: $149 (this price includes the premium data charge)
Line 3: $29.99 (this price includes the premium data charge)
Line 4: $19.99

My 23% discount is off only a certain portion of the Lines 1 and 2 total as they only discount 1 line.

Ok fair..
What iam trying to say is that ttwiitch did not factor in his corporate discount.
So in essence it would be almost a wash Of a couple of dollars between the Two plans if you factored in the discounts. However after the 5 phones are paid off you will be saving almost a hundred dollars month with T-mobile with 5 lines of service


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[HawaiiD]

$209 for the first two lines + $99.99 for each additional (up to 5 total lines) is what I'm reading too...

So that's 509.00 dollars with no discount and 5 lines of service. The comparable
T-mobile plan with 5 lines and no discounts and everything unlimited plus tethering and free wifi calling from anywhere in the world for 310.00 then drops to 210.00
After phones are paid off
Would be a much better value.
Unless that is if T-mobiles coverage
Is not alright for you?

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[Almeuit]

Ah for the fully unlimited plan.. Forgot those exist lol. I always looked at the cheaper ones because unlimited mobile anytime pretty much makes my minutes unlimited.

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[delta7]

depending on your credit you have a spending limit and have a $5.99 fee. That fee is waved if you use auto pay

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I was about to say, I have no spending limit with Sprint and I didn't even know about that spending limit crap. So it's for people with shady credit? smh... pay your bills

BTW, I'm a Sero P users so yes.

 

[HawaiiD]

So that's 509.00 dollars with no discount and 5 lines of service. The comparable
T-mobile plan with 5 lines and no discounts and everything unlimited plus tethering and free wifi calling from anywhere in the world for 310.00 then drops to 210.00
After phones are paid off
Would be a much better value.
Unless that is if T-mobiles coverage
Is not alright for you?

Actually.... Calls over wifi
Makes up for the coverage woes.


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[ffejjj]

Do people still need more than 1500 minutes to land lines? I have 3 lines on Sprint and I rarely go over 100 minutes to land lines. Most all my calls now are to other cell phones

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[tisoyboy2]

Depends on what you use more! If you use more then 450 minutes go with Verizon but will have a 4gb data cap with unlimited talk & text. For the same monthly, Sprint offers 450 minutes with unlimited text & data. I personally have Verizon's old plan. 450 minutes, unlimited text & data for $80. At the moment I can keep it unlimited as long as I don't use upgrade discount. But if they force the data cap without upgrading I'll move to another carrier.

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[tisoyboy2]

Do people still need more than 1500 minutes to land lines? I have 3 lines on Sprint and I rarely go over 100 minutes to land lines. Most all my calls now are to other cell phones

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Good point. I forgot Sprint has unlimited to any mobile.

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[ttwiitch]

Ok fair..
What iam trying to say is that ttwiitch did not factor in his corporate discount.
So in essence it would be almost a wash Of a couple of dollars between the Two plans if you factored in the discounts. However after the 5 phones are paid off you will be saving almost a hundred dollars month with T-mobile with 5 lines of service


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Sorry, yes I have 18% discount off my first line so it comes out to $246 monthly. I have 1500 minutes but unlimited mobile to mobile which checking my FAM plan, we only waste 500-700 minutes. So I still consider that ilunlimited since we don't even scrape 1500 and yet use well over 4000 mobile to mobile unlimited minutes.

What T-Mobile has done is dumb...IMO. Everyone upgrades their phones at least every 2 years anyways. Why would I buy a phone full price, pay more monthly(to pay it off) and still have to pay it over 2 years, or in full if I leave, when I can get deals on contract phones from $0-150 deals on flagship phones AND pay less monthly??

Its just a marketing scam if u ask me.

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[HawaiiD]

Sorry, yes I have 18% discount off my first line so it comes out to $246 monthly. I have 1500 minutes but unlimited mobile to mobile which checking my FAM plan, we only waste 500-700 minutes. So I still consider that ilunlimited since we don't even scrape 1500 and yet use well over 4000 mobile to mobile unlimited minutes.

What T-Mobile has done is dumb...IMO. Everyone upgrades their phones at least every 2 years anyways. Why would I buy a phone full price, pay more monthly(to pay it off) and still have to pay it over 2 years, or in full if I leave, when I can get deals on contract phones from $0-150 deals on flagship phones AND pay less monthly??

Its just a marketing scam if u ask me.

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FYI, there still is plans with contract) on T-mobile if you wanted to go that route? However you still miss my point. Even if you do subsidize your phones at $20 each the price would still be about the same as your $246 plan with your corporate discount. At the end of two years you can get a new phone and just pay $20 each month again, for whichever phone you decide to upgrade . your bill becomes $20 cheaper for each phone you decide not to upgrade. I. E if you decide to upgrade only one phone your bill will be $80 cheaper if you decide to upgrade 2 phones your bill will be $60 cheaper. If you don't upgrade all phones after 2 years your bill will be $100 cheaper each month
Plus I only put $99 down for my HTC One to get started.
So tell me what is it that you don't get the bill is basically the same even if you subsidize the phone? Plus you get more features added to the plan?
Also with T-mobile when my LTE 30 MB Download and 25MB uploads do drop out? My phone switches to HSPA+ network which still averages about 15MB Down and 5MB Up as back up. Right there for me, that is T-mobiles the best feature Imo.


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