Sprint to change Rates Effective January 31, 2011

[RadioShackDude]

NOT A RUMOR..THIS IS FACT!

Effective January 30th, 2011 Sprint will be charging $10.00 Premium Data Plan Charge on all SmartPhone Devices...NOT JUST 4G Phones..but any phone that requires a Data Plan. So if your thinking of getting a Spring Device, do it now. If you are on the $69.00 Everthing Data plan your Grandfathered in UNTIL you do a Swap or upgrade. Then you will be hit with the $10.00 Charge added to your account!! Okay $79.00 is still cheaper than any other carrier for the amount of services your getting on the plan.

 

[Since9600]

NOT A RUMOR..THIS IS FACT!

Effective January 30th, 2011 Sprint will be charging $10.00 Premium Data Plan Charge on all SmartPhone Devices...NOT JUST 4G Phones..but any phone that requires a Data Plan. So if your thinking of getting a Spring Device, do it now. If you are on the $69.00 Everthing Data plan your Grandfathered in UNTIL you do a Swap or upgrade. Then you will be hit with the $10.00 Charge added to your account!! Okay $79.00 is still cheaper than any other carrier for the amount of services your getting on the plan.

Dude doesn't matter.. Sprint has been hitting 4G phones with this fee since last year any ol way and not everyone can upgrady by the end of the month so again doesn't matter. I do agree, for the services included it is def the best deal out there period. However at the same time, these days, not everyone cares about services, quality, etc, etc... some just want the cheapest period... Which is something Sprint has to keep in mind as some of their customers do have that mindset...

 

[Verdes8891]

Some people want the cheapest, but they also want the carriers to improve their services. Well being the cheapest means that they cant always get that part done in a timely fashion. So what do they do? Add a moderate charge for upgrades and new service going forward to help fund this and what is happening? People are complaining about it? You want improvments but you dont want to pay for it. Pick one or the other.

I myself am fine with the extra fee. I already have an Epic and an EVO on my account. Only one other number this can happen too.

 

[CapnKlown]

I'm definately happy with T-Mobile and their rates. Those poor Sprint customers...

 

[johnyguy#AC]

I'm definately happy with T-Mobile and their rates. Those poor Sprint customers...

yes t-mobile is great wish they would have more phones

 

[Kyle Gibb]

Looks like Sprint wants this in place before they announce their new phones for the beginning of this year...

 

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everybody wants cheap, well you get what you pay for. cheap prices = cheap service, and sprint is right on point with that

 

[RadioShackDude]

everybody wants cheap, well you get what you pay for. cheap prices = cheap service, and sprint is right on point with that

According to ConsumerReports....Sprint is making a huge mark in the market with their new Everything Data Plan....they went from last to 3rd place. Behind Verizon and ATT.. T-mobile finished dead last...T-Mobile is a dead horse. We sell 200 SPrint phones a month..and maybe 20 T-Mobile phones...they just dont have a good phone selection...crappy phones....that always get returned because of dropped calls and crappy service. Not my peronal opinion...i just sell the crap...lol I have sold over 200 EVO's and not one returned!!! I hate selling T-mobile to people cause i know they will get returned..their crappy service.

 

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According to ConsumerReports....Sprint is making a huge mark in the market with their new Everything Data Plan....they went from last to 3rd place. Behind Verizon and ATT.. T-mobile finished dead last...T-Mobile is a dead horse. We sell 200 SPrint phones a month..and maybe 20 T-Mobile phones...they just dont have a good phone selection...crappy phones....that always get returned because of dropped calls and crappy service. Not my peronal opinion...i just sell the crap...lol I have sold over 200 EVO's and not one returned!!! I hate selling T-mobile to people cause i know they will get returned..their crappy service.

I agree with the your T-mobile comment, no doubt. Unfortunately for Sprint, 3rd is as far as they will go. You may do 200 sprint phones a month, but the retailer I manage is doing 200-300 ports from sprint a month. They are adding customers, but losing more. They will always be behind the 8 ball, and sorry to say, WiMax is not helping. They took a gamble with being the first with "4G", and now its coming back to bite them in the ass. LTE is far superior to WiMax, and now that AT&T is getting their LTE network ready, they are in trouble (Sprint was already in the hole because of Verizon). Remember those talks a couple years ago about Sprint being bought out, don't be surprised if they resurface.

 

[eric.atx]

I an kind of bothered by this change but I see why they have to.

Everyone forms opinions from their own myopic view on reality based on their experience. So one person says they add more than t-mobile and the other says they loose more. I don't know the numbers but sprint made a mistake buying nextel. I like sprint service but I don't seed how first to 4g on wimax was a bad idea. It has been repeatedly said they can switch to lte later if they want to so I disagree on it being a bad idea. It was a good idea. Furthering service is always good.

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[Icon]

I an kind of bothered by this change but I see why they have to.

Everyone forms opinions from their own myopic view on reality based on their experience. So one person says they add more than t-mobile and the other says they loose more. I don't know the numbers but sprint made a mistake buying nextel. I like sprint service but I don't seed how first to 4g on wimax was a bad idea. It has been repeatedly said they can switch to lte later if they want to so I disagree on it being a bad idea. It was a good idea. Furthering service is always good.

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Do you realize how much money it would cost Sprint to go to LTE? The answer is simply more then they can afford. Especially after all they dumped in WiMax. And since I have to spell it out for you, listen carefully. Because they will prolly never be able to switch to LTE, they put the "future" of Sprint on a "4G" technology that is inferior to their competitions. Again Bad Idea.

 

[Triple Threat]

Do you realize how much money it would cost Sprint to go to LTE? The answer is simply more then they can afford. Especially after all they dumped in WiMax. And since I have to spell it out for you, listen carefully. Because they will prolly never be able to switch to LTE, they put the "future" of Sprint on a "4G" technology that is inferior to their competitions. Again Bad Idea.

Wimax has a ton more Spectrum range to be able to handle a lot more traffic than TLE. I fail to see how Wimax is "inferior", different yes, inferior no, and until LTE actually goes live, and we actually get to see how the network works in the real world all of this is really a moot point.
As for you doing 2-300 ports a month, I see the same thing, but the other way around with people jumping ship from ATT and Verizon.
I guess it's all in your perspective of things. I don't think that any of the big 4 carriers are going anywhere anytime soon. Also different technologies bring about quicker advancements and innovations.

 

[eric.atx]

Do you realize how much money it would cost Sprint to go to LTE? The answer is simply more then they can afford. Especially after all they dumped in WiMax. And since I have to spell it out for you, listen carefully. Because they will prolly never be able to switch to LTE, they put the "future" of Sprint on a "4G" technology that is inferior to their competitions. Again Bad Idea.

Opinions abound and like all of them they are just opinions. So spell anything you want but you speculated a lot in your opinions. You have no idea how much anything would cost sprint. And no idea if they could easily switch.

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[srkmagnus]

It would be big $ if Sprint goes from WiMax to LTE. Sprint is already having problems building out it's current WiMax network with respect to getting the towers up and running because of Clearwires problems. I mean, things are progressing slowly, but Sprint charging us an additional $10 fee regardless of having a 4g phone or not leads me to believe that they need help building out the infrastructure.

 

[RUSH]

I guess we can't have it all. As they say- You have to pay for the best. $$

 

[srkmagnus]

Rush, exactly. It all comes down to money. I don't blame them though. The Infrastructure costs is expensive before they break ground. Still, Sprint offers some of the most competitive prices if you're a smartphone user on a family plan with unlimited data.

 

[EMT J]

I've been paying the extra $10 since June when I got my evo so this doesn't affect me. Bottom line is Sprint is still a better value than the rest especially when u consider the things we get included that other companies charge for, (Unlimited txt, minutes, web, email, pic mail, navigation, Sprint TV). Development of new technologies and the infrastructure to implement them aren't cheap, and the mission of every business is to make money so from time to time prices must go up.

 

[androidian]

Do you realize how much money it would cost Sprint to go to LTE? The answer is simply more then they can afford. Especially after all they dumped in WiMax. And since I have to spell it out for you, listen carefully. Because they will prolly never be able to switch to LTE, they put the "future" of Sprint on a "4G" technology that is inferior to their competitions. Again Bad Idea.

Let me spell it out for you.....probably.....

 

[efn77mx]

I'm definately happy with T-Mobile and their rates. Those poor Sprint customers...

I'm definitely happy with Sprint's COVERAGE in my area. Those poor T-Mobile customers...

 

[Droid800]

Do you realize how much money it would cost Sprint to go to LTE? The answer is simply more then they can afford. Especially after all they dumped in WiMax. And since I have to spell it out for you, listen carefully. Because they will prolly never be able to switch to LTE, they put the "future" of Sprint on a "4G" technology that is inferior to their competitions. Again Bad Idea.

Actually, Sprint is in the process of evaluating LTE as a replacement for CDMA, so its entirely possible that their WiMax network will be supplanted by an LTE one. Further, LTE and WiMax are essentially the same standard implemented in slightly different ways, and 75% of the equipment that supports it is identical. In fact, the two are so closely aligned that the costs for switching would not be anywhere as high as building out an entirely new network. Considering that Clearwire is actively pursuing LTE, and Sprint has said that it will not rule anything out, your comments are just a little bit out of line when it comes to the truth.

Links:

Clearwire modifies agreement with Intel so it can pursue LTE if it wants

LTE and WiMax are different sides of the same coin

Moving from LTE to WiMax

Radio maker builds dual-LTE/WiMax chips

Sprint Requests bids for LTE equipment