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- 02-28-2008, 10:41 AM #1SMSGuest
"http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jozneUnB0QkRuil3m5wj0ujr0_ZQD8V3DFE01"
"Sprint Nextel said it would begin offering unlimited voice and data
service usage for $99.99 per month."
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- 02-28-2008, 12:02 PM #2Anon E. MussGuest
Re: Sprint offers $90 unlimited voice, $100 including text messaging
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:41:39 -0800, SMS <[email protected]>
wrote:
>"http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jozneUnB0QkRuil3m5wj0ujr0_ZQD8V3DFE01"
>
>"Sprint Nextel said it would begin offering unlimited voice and data
>service usage for $99.99 per month."
This also reportedly includes BIS (<http://tinyurl.com/235py3>)! This
is huge!
- 02-28-2008, 02:01 PM #3Guest
Re: Sprint offers $90 unlimited voice, $100 including text messaging
Anon E. Muss <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:41:39 -0800, SMS <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>"http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jozneUnB0QkRuil3m5wj0ujr0_ZQD8V3DFE01"
>>
>>"Sprint Nextel said it would begin offering unlimited voice and data
>>service usage for $99.99 per month."
>
>This also reportedly includes BIS (<http://tinyurl.com/235py3>)! This
>is huge!
If it does include BIS than it IS a good deal? yes?
- 02-28-2008, 02:06 PM #4Tom JGuest
Re: Sprint offers $90 unlimited voice, $100 including text messaging
[email protected] wrote:
> Anon E. Muss <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:41:39 -0800, SMS <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> "http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jozneUnB0QkRuil3m5wj0ujr0_ZQD8V3DFE01"
>>>
>>> "Sprint Nextel said it would begin offering unlimited voice and
>>> data
>>> service usage for $99.99 per month."
>>
>> This also reportedly includes BIS (<http://tinyurl.com/235py3>)!
>> This is huge!
>
> If it does include BIS than it IS a good deal? yes?
Maybe - maybe not - have you been watching their subscriber retention
lately?? They are bleeding worse than a stuck hog!!
Tom J
- 02-28-2008, 10:22 PM #5SMSGuest
Re: Sprint offers $90 unlimited voice, $100 including text messaging
Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> SMS <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> "http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jozneUnB0QkRuil3m5wj0ujr0_ZQD8V3DFE01"
>>
>> "Sprint Nextel said it would begin offering unlimited voice and data
>> service usage for $99.99 per month."
>
> plus taxes and garbage fees, right up to $120/month.
>
> Whoopee.
>
But a bit less than Verizon and AT&T charge for the same thing. If you
can live with Sprint's coverage, it's a comparatively good price.
- 02-29-2008, 02:14 PM #6Jar-Jar BinksGuest
Re: Sprint offers $90 unlimited voice, $100 including text messaging
Sprint actually has very good coverage because you can force your phone to
roam on Verizon anytime that you like. NO other cell phone service provider
gives you that capability.
"SMS" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
>> In article <[email protected]>,
>> SMS <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> "http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jozneUnB0QkRuil3m5wj0ujr0_ZQD8V3DFE01"
>>>
>>> "Sprint Nextel said it would begin offering unlimited voice and data
>>> service usage for $99.99 per month."
>>
>> plus taxes and garbage fees, right up to $120/month.
>>
>> Whoopee.
>>
>
> But a bit less than Verizon and AT&T charge for the same thing. If you can
> live with Sprint's coverage, it's a comparatively good price.
- 02-29-2008, 02:38 PM #7TeddeLIGuest
Re: Sprint offers $90 unlimited voice, $100 including text messaging
Jar-Jar Binks brought next idea :
> Sprint actually has very good coverage because you can force your phone to
> roam on Verizon anytime that you like. NO other cell phone service provider
> gives you that capability.
>
> "SMS" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
>>> In article <[email protected]>,
>>> SMS <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jozneUnB0QkRuil3m5wj0ujr0_ZQD8V3DFE01"
>>>>
>>>> "Sprint Nextel said it would begin offering unlimited voice and data
>>>> service usage for $99.99 per month."
>>>
>>> plus taxes and garbage fees, right up to $120/month.
>>>
>>> Whoopee.
>>>
>>
>> But a bit less than Verizon and AT&T charge for the same thing. If you can
>> live with Sprint's coverage, it's a comparatively good price.
If Sprint's coverage was adequate you would not have to force roam.
- 03-01-2008, 12:30 PM #8William H. BowenGuest
Re: Sprint offers $90 unlimited voice, $100 including text messaging
Anon E. Muss <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:41:39 -0800, SMS <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>"http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jozneUnB0QkRuil3m5wj0ujr0_ZQD8V3DFE01"
>>
>>"Sprint Nextel said it would begin offering unlimited voice and data
>>service usage for $99.99 per month."
>
>This also reportedly includes BIS (<http://tinyurl.com/235py3>)! This
>is huge!
According to the conversation I had with Sprint Customer Service
yesterday (2/29) the only thing NOT included is "Phone as Modem".
The young lady I talked with in CS yesterday told me management has
told them to expect the rollout of a number of blockbuster service
offerings in the next 30~45 days.
Regards,
Bill Bowen
Sacramento, CA
- 03-01-2008, 04:02 PM #9LarryGuest
Re: Sprint offers $90 unlimited voice, $100 including text messaging
William H. Bowen <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> According to the conversation I had with Sprint Customer Service
> yesterday (2/29) the only thing NOT included is "Phone as Modem".
>
>
Makes sense. Unlimited data to the PHONE is damned near useless because
the PHONE can't do anything but the simplest of webpages and email. If
they turn the MODEM function off, they don't have to worry about you
actually USING all that "unlimited" bandwidth for a real
computer....streaming, sharing, downloading, uploading, and all those nasty
computer things that use BANDWIDTH that PHONES are designed NOT to do.
How many gigs/month does WAP or some phone browser lacking javascript,
Flash, Java, media players and codecs, file transfers, etc. use, anyways?
100MB? 200?
My N800 tablet Bluetoothed to the MotoROKR Z6m DUN used 94GB last month,
according to the detailed bill from Alltel.....and noone complained for
$25.
- 03-01-2008, 05:49 PM #10Liberal's HATE America!!Guest
Re: Sprint offers $90 unlimited voice, $100 including text messaging
"SMS" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jozneUnB0QkRuil3m5wj0ujr0_ZQD8V3DFE01"
>
> "Sprint Nextel said it would begin offering unlimited voice and data
> service usage for $99.99 per month."
Well since Sprint is the worst carrier on Earth, by far, this won't help
them much.
- 03-01-2008, 09:13 PM #11LarryGuest
Re: Sprint offers $90 unlimited voice, $100 including text messaging
Scott in SoCal <[email protected]> wrote in
news[email protected]:
> Hmm... I wonder how something like a Sierra Wireless AirCard looks to
> the system? If it looks like a phone, perhaps they left a loophole
> like Cingular did a few years back with their $19.95/month Media Works
> plan...
>
>
Dream on...(c;
- 03-01-2008, 09:16 PM #12Bill TGuest
Re: Sprint offers $90 unlimited voice, $100 including text messaging
Scott in SoCal wrote:
>
> Hmm... I wonder how something like a Sierra Wireless AirCard looks to
> the system? If it looks like a phone, perhaps they left a loophole
> like Cingular did a few years back with their $19.95/month Media Works
> plan...
Sprint charges $60 for unlimited WWAN access (e.g. with an Aircard), so
there is no reason to pay $100 for it. Since the unlimited plan is
locked to one cellphone number, it's not possible to game the system by
using the Card and a phone on the same plan.
Bill
- 03-02-2008, 11:30 AM #13LarryGuest
Re: Sprint offers $90 unlimited voice, $100 including text messaging
Bill T <[email protected]> wrote in news:47ca1727$0$19527
[email protected]:
> Scott in SoCal wrote:
>>
>> Hmm... I wonder how something like a Sierra Wireless AirCard looks to
>> the system? If it looks like a phone, perhaps they left a loophole
>> like Cingular did a few years back with their $19.95/month Media Works
>> plan...
>
> Sprint charges $60 for unlimited WWAN access (e.g. with an Aircard), so
> there is no reason to pay $100 for it. Since the unlimited plan is
> locked to one cellphone number, it's not possible to game the system by
> using the Card and a phone on the same plan.
>
> Bill
>
>
Wow...That's kinda high! I'm paying Verizon $25/mo for EVDO to my Nokia
N800 from the ROKR Z6m as a BT modem. $60 is over DOUBLE!
The trouble with Aircards is you have to buy another phone number you can't
use for anything plus pay for broadband. It's a scam.
Plug your sellphone into your laptop or bluetooth it....much cheaper! Just
buy unlimited data service, which I think Sprint also sells for around
$25/mo more than the sellphone bill.
You can also use it for the crappy stuff on the phone, if you like.
- 03-02-2008, 08:16 PM #14DTCGuest
Re: Sprint offers $90 unlimited voice, $100 including text messaging
Larry wrote:
> Wow...That's kinda high! I'm paying Verizon $25/mo for EVDO to my Nokia
> N800 from the ROKR Z6m as a BT modem. $60 is over DOUBLE!
>
> The trouble with Aircards is you have to buy another phone number you can't
> use for anything plus pay for broadband. It's a scam.
If you could replace the aircard with a tethered phone and still
maintain same functionality, then it may be a scam. But you can't so
it isn't.
> Plug your sellphone into your laptop or bluetooth it....much cheaper! Just
> buy unlimited data service, which I think Sprint also sells for around
> $25/mo more than the sellphone bill.
You're thinking of the Sprint data plan that is $59 per month and the
plan is expressly designed for laptop access. Tethering a phone is
against the TOS.
- 03-02-2008, 09:14 PM #15William H. BowenGuest
Re: Sprint offers $90 unlimited voice, $100 including text messaging
"Liberal's HATE America!!" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>"SMS" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> "http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jozneUnB0QkRuil3m5wj0ujr0_ZQD8V3DFE01"
>>
>> "Sprint Nextel said it would begin offering unlimited voice and data
>> service usage for $99.99 per month."
>
>Well since Sprint is the worst carrier on Earth, by far, this won't help
>them much.
And on what do you base that statement? Your own experience, coverage,
customer service or ?? Worst compared to??
I'll grant you that the coverage by each carrier in a particular area
may not be as good as another carrier, and I'll also inform you that
AT&T and Verizon, as the older carriers going back to the AMPS days of
the '80s, have an advantage in that they where able to nail down sites
before the NIMBY opposition and the "we'll all die from radio waves"
scare mongering started up in the '90s. The 1800/1900 MHz PCS spectrum
auction (the spectrum T-Mobile & Sprint use) did not happen until 1995
and the systems where not sited until a couple of years later. I know
- I was working for Bell South in those days.
All that having been said, I've been in many areas where my Sprint
phone works and my girlfriend's Verizon phone is in Roam.
Be careful when you make branket statements - some might light that
blanket up )
Regards,
Bill Bowen
Sacramento, CA
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