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| new low price.. Assuming this is network wide available, this would be the lowest unlimited calling plan of a carrier with a National footprint. In my experience, the more rural you get with sprint's phones, the worse quality you get or in some cases the network isn't available at all--roaming or not (I'm thinking upstate NY as an example). Still, this is part of their prepaid plans, wouldn't this cannibalize their "contract" plans? Seriously, all they were offering me was 300anytime with free incoming for what amounted to $59 a month after taxes and fees.
What prepaid services do is put the burden of buying a phone back into the consumer's hands, as the carriers often don't subsidize good quality phones. I've left Sprint a long time ago due to quality, pricing and VERY bad customer service problems. Your Mileage May Vary -- some have had good things to say about Sprint.. My last good things to say were about Nextel, not Sprint.. IMO, Sprint never really has been a good cellular carrier. What this may do is Irk already locked down marketshare from Verizon. It may give cost concerned Walkie-Talkie business customers something to think about and squeeze Verizon on in terms of prices.
Verizon has long had a pricing premium that goes along with the best of breed cell phone service. It will be interesting to see if Cablevision-like pricing works in wooing Verizon's customers away.. because the hemorraging that Sprint had the past few quarters of mostly business customers went to Verizon, after the first wave of residential went to AT&T.
ME? I'm on Net10 temporarily (which, in my area is wholesale AT&T service). $30 every 2 months, and I'm good for 300 anytime minutes. That's $.10 per minute prepaid $.05 for text in/out. On many payphones it cost more to make a call than that. Customer service leaves much to be desired, but at least I'm getting what I'm paying for now, instead of trying to haggle with major carrier for a cheap month to month rate.
If a major carrier offers a beter deal, I'll consider it, until then.... fight it out! Hopefully Verizon will strike back in the prepaid wars! They have a marginally better network where I am than AT&T. | | |
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| Actually, you've been able to get SOME decent-quality PAYG phones on almost every carrier; it's just not the same phones on every carrier. One of the most popular phones on both VZ's prepaid and standard-contract sides was Samsung's SCH-a610; in fact, it was one of the few phones that actually overlapped. I bought my prepaid SCH-a610 because my Mom had the same phone (she was then, and is now, a VZW customer) and thus had NO retraining (not to mention that my prepaid phone had all the VZW-VZW minutes I could eat 24/7, which *was*, after all, why I got the phone in the first place). I used it as a straight phone, which means I needed two (and only two) features - great call quality and great coverage. VZW gives great coverage (never got hit with a roaming charge, not even in Las Vegas, which was then, and is now, practically in Sprint's front yard), and the Samsung is arguably one of the great VGA-screen cell phones when it comes to call quality (some of us actually DON'T want a phone equipped with a truckload of features we won't use).
I still have the phone, and use it as a watch/timer (I made the mistake of leaving VZW prepaid after getting a prepaid phone from another carrier as a Christmas present), and will, when possible, go back to VZW (even if I have to switch phones). | |
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