opinions about 2 year contracts????

What is the group's opinion about signing 2 year wireless contracts?
Is the 7 PM nights worth comitting to a wireless carrier for 2 years?
I am off my 1 year contract and considering the 2 year contract to get
the 7 PM nights and weekends.

thanks
Darrel

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"Darrel Mattox" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> What is the group's opinion about signing 2 year wireless contracts?
> Is the 7 PM nights worth comitting to a wireless carrier for 2 years?
> I am off my 1 year contract and considering the 2 year contract to get
> the 7 PM nights and weekends.
>
> thanks
> Darrel

From what I see people are generally against two year contracts. On Dec.
31st I had completed 1 year of a two year agreement and was thinking about
adding the 7PM option to my account. I had originally signed a two year
agreement because they gave me free PCS-PCS. I had dealings with Sprint in
the past and I was generally happy with their service. I knew people who
used other carriers who weren't happy with their service, most notably
ATTWS, so I decided to "take the gamble" and sign a two year deal. I used
the same logic when thinking about adding the 7PM feature. I didn't like
the coverage availablity (locally speaking) that the GSM carriers were
offering, and the only other company I'd possibly be happy with would have
been VZW, but they want too much money from me in the form of a deposit, so
considering that I've been happy with Sprint I took the 7PM option and
renewed my contract.

Sprint PCS customer for a year now.
-total of about 5 dropped calls.
-never run into analog roaming issues.
-most people tell me that I sound as if I'm on a landline.
-always have a good signal.
-currently use the Sanyo 4900.

So, I guess in my situation, why not sign for a two year contract. If I had
signed up for a one year contract, and decided to renew for the same amount
of minutes, I'd have to pay $5 more a month for the plan (300 mins for $30.
they now charge $35 for that plan), $5 more for the PCS-PCS, and $5 more for
the 7PM option.

Mark

That's for you to decide, not us. Everyone is going to have a different opinion. If 7pm nights are that important to you personally, then go for it. But if you have problems with other aspects of the service or think you might want to switch carriers with
in the next two years for any reason, it might be a bad idea.

Steve

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:54:01 GMT, "Mark L." <[email protected]>
wrote:


>So, I guess in my situation, why not sign for a two year contract. If I had
>signed up for a one year contract, and decided to renew for the same amount
>of minutes, I'd have to pay $5 more a month for the plan (300 mins for $30.
>they now charge $35 for that plan), $5 more for the PCS-PCS, and $5 more for
>the 7PM option.
>

Actually, you wouldn't be paying anymore than you are now. You don't
need to renew your contract when you obligation ends. The contract
continues on indefintely. In the contract (agreement) is a clause
that says you will pay an ETF if you cancel before a certain period of
time, once that amount of time has elapsed, you have fulfilled you
"tenure" obligation, but the contract doesn't end. You can keep the
same plan and rates essentially forever.

Tom Veldhouse

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:01:26 +0000 (UTC), Steve Crow
<[email protected]> wrote:

>That's for you to decide, not us. Everyone is going to have a different opinion. If 7pm nights are that important to you personally, then go for it. But if you have problems with other aspects of the service or think you might want to switch carriers wit
hin the next two years for any reason, it might be a bad idea.
>
>Steve


Hey ... can you fix your news client to post lines no longer than 70
characters? This is a standard and you can see why.

Thanks,

Tom Veldhouse

"Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:54:01 GMT, "Mark L." <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
> >So, I guess in my situation, why not sign for a two year contract. If I
had
> >signed up for a one year contract, and decided to renew for the same
amount
> >of minutes, I'd have to pay $5 more a month for the plan (300 mins for
$30.
> >they now charge $35 for that plan), $5 more for the PCS-PCS, and $5 more
for
> >the 7PM option.
> >
>
> Actually, you wouldn't be paying anymore than you are now. You don't
> need to renew your contract when you obligation ends. The contract
> continues on indefintely. In the contract (agreement) is a clause
> that says you will pay an ETF if you cancel before a certain period of
> time, once that amount of time has elapsed, you have fulfilled you
> "tenure" obligation, but the contract doesn't end. You can keep the
> same plan and rates essentially forever.
>
> Tom Veldhouse

I understand Tom, but let's say I had finished a one year contract and
wanted the 7PM nights. I'd have to sign up for a 2 year contract, and
wouldn't I have to pick a plan from what is currently available? Either
way, I have a plan now that I won't be able to get in the future so I guess
to a certain degree it doesn't matter. I know that you can continue beyond
the end date of your contract, with the same plan and rates like you said,
but that's really assuming that you don't make any changes. If you change
anything about your service (minutes, features, etc) sprint could say that
you need to pick a new plan because they don't offer your old plan anymore,
right?

Mark

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:15:55 GMT, "Mark L." <[email protected]>
wrote:


>
>I understand Tom, but let's say I had finished a one year contract and
>wanted the 7PM nights. I'd have to sign up for a 2 year contract, and
>wouldn't I have to pick a plan from what is currently available?

I can't answer that for sure, but if it is a standard plan add-on,
then I would say the answer is no. However, it appears that it is not
(hence the two-year contract), so the answer is yes. That would be
true whether you are bound to another contract or not, they would just
supercede your current contract with a new one 2-years in length.

> Either
>way, I have a plan now that I won't be able to get in the future so I guess
>to a certain degree it doesn't matter. I know that you can continue beyond
>the end date of your contract, with the same plan and rates like you said,
>but that's really assuming that you don't make any changes. If you change
>anything about your service (minutes, features, etc) sprint could say that
>you need to pick a new plan because they don't offer your old plan anymore,
>right?
>
>Mark
>

No, if you pick a simple add-on, there is no change to the contract.
You can add PCS-PCS, or F&CA, or whatever without modifying the basic
contract. It depends what you are trying to do.

I don't understand why everybody gets so worked up about 7PM N&W
minutes (except for maybe on the west coast where calls to the Midwest
and the East would be arriving very late in the evening). Of all the
people I know with cell phones (which is just about everybody I know),
almost none of them would actually benefit from N&W starting at 7PM
when a $5 / month fee is added on. This would imply that peope are
not making calls currently after 7PM because they are waiting for the
9PM N&W minutes to start, or they are consistantly going over because
they make alot of calls between 7PM and 9PM. People should check
their bill and see if they REALLY will benefit from this (at an added
cost of $5/month for 24 months!). I think that for the majority of
users the answer is an overwhelming NO.

Tom Veldhouse

"Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...


> I don't understand why everybody gets so worked up about 7PM N&W
> minutes (except for maybe on the west coast where calls to the Midwest
> and the East would be arriving very late in the evening). Of all the
> people I know with cell phones (which is just about everybody I know),
> almost none of them would actually benefit from N&W starting at 7PM
> when a $5 / month fee is added on. This would imply that peope are
> not making calls currently after 7PM because they are waiting for the
> 9PM N&W minutes to start, or they are consistantly going over because
> they make alot of calls between 7PM and 9PM. People should check
> their bill and see if they REALLY will benefit from this (at an added
> cost of $5/month for 24 months!). I think that for the majority of
> users the answer is an overwhelming NO.
>
> Tom Veldhouse

I don't really see why people get worked up either. I would actually
benefit more from a "3 day weekend" promotion that T-mobile runs. Having
said that, I did add the 7PM feature, even though it might not end up being
financially beneficial. I did it for 2 reasons. First, I only have 300
A.T. minutes per month and I usually come close to using those minutes
(within 10-40 mins per month). So I've cut down the window in which I must
use my 300 minutes. The second reason I did it, is that if I have the time,
I'd rather call some people like my mother in the 7 o'clock time frame,
rather than the 9 o'clock timeframe. I more or less added the 7PM feature
out of convenience rather than necessity.

I should also mention that my cellphone is the only phone that I have. I
don't have a house phone.


Mark

Darrel Mattox wrote:

> What is the group's opinion about signing 2 year wireless contracts?
> Is the 7 PM nights worth comitting to a wireless carrier for 2 years?
> I am off my 1 year contract and considering the 2 year contract to get
> the 7 PM nights and weekends.

I guess it depends on a number of things, particularly how happy you are
with Sprint (or unhappy as the case may be), and how willing you are to
plan to stick around for two years. Personally, I don't find this to be
a problem... I've been with Sprint since '97, and have a minute plan
that beats what's currently offered by other carriers, and I just don't
see a useful reason to change as of yet. So I went ahead and renewed.

Of course, other people are different and prefer having the freedom to
jump wherever they please sooner than two years. So renewing is not for
them.



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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:01:26 +0000 (UTC), Steve Crow
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >That's for you to decide, not us. Everyone is going to have a different opinion. If 7pm nights are that important to you personally, then go for it. But if you have problems with other aspects of the service or think you might want to switch carriers w
ithin the next two years for any reason, it might be a bad idea.
> >
> >Steve
>
>
> Hey ... can you fix your news client to post lines no longer than 70
> characters? This is a standard and you can see why.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom Veldhouse
>

Tom,

I was wondering if they were making it to the group like that, and I see
now that they are. I ordinarly use Pine on my Linux server, but opted
instead to use a PHP-based Newsreader for this message.

Time to hack away at some code...

Thanks for the heads-up.

Steve

My opinon: I have always been happy with Sprint PCS. I have a 2000 minute
plan with other add-ons and my bill after taxes is already approaching the
ETF on a monthly basis. If I ever became unhappy with Sprint PCS and wanted
so move, the ETF would not be that difficult to take (not that I would want
to pay it but I DID agree to a contact). In any event, I am happy and do
not foresee a move so a two year agreement was a small factor.
"Isaiah Beard" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Darrel Mattox wrote:
>
> > What is the group's opinion about signing 2 year wireless contracts?
> > Is the 7 PM nights worth comitting to a wireless carrier for 2 years?
> > I am off my 1 year contract and considering the 2 year contract to get
> > the 7 PM nights and weekends.
>
> I guess it depends on a number of things, particularly how happy you are
> with Sprint (or unhappy as the case may be), and how willing you are to
> plan to stick around for two years. Personally, I don't find this to be
> a problem... I've been with Sprint since '97, and have a minute plan
> that beats what's currently offered by other carriers, and I just don't
> see a useful reason to change as of yet. So I went ahead and renewed.
>
> Of course, other people are different and prefer having the freedom to
> jump wherever they please sooner than two years. So renewing is not for
> them.
>
>
>
> --
> E-mail fudged to thwart spammers.
> Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply.
>

I think the 2 year Advantage Agreement would be worth considering
to get the 1900 Nights & Weekends, but not for an additional $5 per
month. I am considering the 2 year Advantage Agreement to get the
Sprint PCS to Sprint PCS, even though we don't come close to going over
our Minutes in Plan now, because once you get it, it will stay, and
possibly when our usage would make Sprint PCS to Sprint PCS
advantageous, it might no longer be offered free.


Darrel Mattox wrote:

> What is the group's opinion about signing 2 year wireless contracts?
> Is the 7 PM nights worth comitting to a wireless carrier for 2 years?
> I am off my 1 year contract and considering the 2 year contract to get
> the 7 PM nights and weekends.
>
> thanks
> Darrel

Does tmobile's 3 day weekends also include nights during the week?
I thought I heard not, and that was the trade off to get the third day.

Mark L. wrote:

> "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>
>
>>I don't understand why everybody gets so worked up about 7PM N&W
>>minutes (except for maybe on the west coast where calls to the Midwest
>>and the East would be arriving very late in the evening). Of all the
>>people I know with cell phones (which is just about everybody I know),
>>almost none of them would actually benefit from N&W starting at 7PM
>>when a $5 / month fee is added on. This would imply that peope are
>>not making calls currently after 7PM because they are waiting for the
>>9PM N&W minutes to start, or they are consistantly going over because
>>they make alot of calls between 7PM and 9PM. People should check
>>their bill and see if they REALLY will benefit from this (at an added
>>cost of $5/month for 24 months!). I think that for the majority of
>>users the answer is an overwhelming NO.
>>
>>Tom Veldhouse
>
>
> I don't really see why people get worked up either. I would actually
> benefit more from a "3 day weekend" promotion that T-mobile runs. Having
> said that, I did add the 7PM feature, even though it might not end up being
> financially beneficial. I did it for 2 reasons. First, I only have 300
> A.T. minutes per month and I usually come close to using those minutes
> (within 10-40 mins per month). So I've cut down the window in which I must
> use my 300 minutes. The second reason I did it, is that if I have the time,
> I'd rather call some people like my mother in the 7 o'clock time frame,
> rather than the 9 o'clock timeframe. I more or less added the 7PM feature
> out of convenience rather than necessity.
>
> I should also mention that my cellphone is the only phone that I have. I
> don't have a house phone.
>
>
> Mark
>
>

"Thadius" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> My opinon: I have always been happy with Sprint PCS. I have a 2000 minute
> plan with other add-ons and my bill after taxes is already approaching the
> ETF on a monthly basis. If I ever became unhappy with Sprint PCS and wanted
> so move, the ETF would not be that difficult to take (not that I would want
> to pay it but I DID agree to a contact). In any event, I am happy and do
> not foresee a move so a two year agreement was a small factor.
> "Isaiah Beard" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Darrel Mattox wrote:
> >
> > > What is the group's opinion about signing 2 year wireless contracts?
> > > Is the 7 PM nights worth comitting to a wireless carrier for 2 years?
> > > I am off my 1 year contract and considering the 2 year contract to get
> > > the 7 PM nights and weekends.
> >
> > I guess it depends on a number of things, particularly how happy you are
> > with Sprint (or unhappy as the case may be), and how willing you are to
> > plan to stick around for two years. Personally, I don't find this to be
> > a problem... I've been with Sprint since '97, and have a minute plan
> > that beats what's currently offered by other carriers, and I just don't
> > see a useful reason to change as of yet. So I went ahead and renewed.
> >
> > Of course, other people are different and prefer having the freedom to
> > jump wherever they please sooner than two years. So renewing is not for
> > them.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > E-mail fudged to thwart spammers.
> > Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply.
> >

Thanks for the replys....

I do not have a problem with Sprint. I sometimes have dropped calls
but I think that happens with all carriers. You could be sitting
right next to a tower and still drop a call with a BAD phone.

The only problem I have with Sprint and signing a two-year agreement
is that Sprint does not always have a good selection of phones. Even
now if you want a candy bar type phone Sprint has only 2 models to
choose from.

again thanks

I just checked their web site and saw 5 non flip phones.


Darrel Mattox wrote:

> "Thadius" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
>
>>My opinon: I have always been happy with Sprint PCS. I have a 2000 minute
>>plan with other add-ons and my bill after taxes is already approaching the
>>ETF on a monthly basis. If I ever became unhappy with Sprint PCS and wanted
>>so move, the ETF would not be that difficult to take (not that I would want
>>to pay it but I DID agree to a contact). In any event, I am happy and do
>>not foresee a move so a two year agreement was a small factor.
>>"Isaiah Beard" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]...
>>
>>>Darrel Mattox wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>What is the group's opinion about signing 2 year wireless contracts?
>>>>Is the 7 PM nights worth comitting to a wireless carrier for 2 years?
>>>>I am off my 1 year contract and considering the 2 year contract to get
>>>>the 7 PM nights and weekends.
>>>
>>>I guess it depends on a number of things, particularly how happy you are
>>>with Sprint (or unhappy as the case may be), and how willing you are to
>>>plan to stick around for two years. Personally, I don't find this to be
>>>a problem... I've been with Sprint since '97, and have a minute plan
>>>that beats what's currently offered by other carriers, and I just don't
>>>see a useful reason to change as of yet. So I went ahead and renewed.
>>>
>>>Of course, other people are different and prefer having the freedom to
>>>jump wherever they please sooner than two years. So renewing is not for
>>>them.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>E-mail fudged to thwart spammers.
>>>Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply.
>>>
>
>
> Thanks for the replys....
>
> I do not have a problem with Sprint. I sometimes have dropped calls
> but I think that happens with all carriers. You could be sitting
> right next to a tower and still drop a call with a BAD phone.
>
> The only problem I have with Sprint and signing a two-year agreement
> is that Sprint does not always have a good selection of phones. Even
> now if you want a candy bar type phone Sprint has only 2 models to
> choose from.
>
> again thanks