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Re: Dumb move

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:08:06 EDT

LVWolfman posted :

said by This was intentional I believe. They want out of the consumer market. Much easier for them to be a wholesaler to larger ISPs.[/BQUOTE :

Sprint is apparently trying to get out of the consumer broadband market as well. I'm 4 months into a 24 month contract for a Dell 11z notebook with built-in 3G/4G. This is my main computer. It is a REAL pain to switch between 4G/WiFi so I leave it on 4G. After all it's unlimited, right? If I hadn't stumbled across the upcoming plan change over on the XDA developer forums, my next Sprint bill for the notebook would have been $500 higher! They're going to charge $51 a GB for exceeding the cap (vs Verizon's $10 a GB.)

No grandfathering and when I called account services, I got escalated several times until I spoke with a "manager" Shaun (or Shawn) who basically and politely told me that nothing in my contract with them specified that I even GOT 4G service, so that this was not an "adverse material change" to my contract and that if I cancelled my contract, they'd hit me with an early termination fee. I told him that I wasn't paying them $10,000 in overages over the next 20 months. He politely told me to go have carnal knowledge with myself.

I've already totally disabled the 3G/4G cards in the computer. I'm going to see if I can activate them on Clear, at least the 4G part, though I already have the original Clear home modem and motorola USB modem for $60.76 a month. I may just plug the USB one into the Clear Spot adapter I bought and use it.

Sprint's CEO has already backtracked since Sprint and strongly suggested that unlimited 4G on the handsets will be going away as well.

I have three contacts with Sprint and have been with them for many years.

I've signed my last Sprint contract.

Re: Dumb move

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:59:13 EDT

iFail 5G posted :

said by chgo_man99:

said by swintec:

said by kpfx:

Wow... I think they shot themselves in the foot here.

Clear will give you 4G-Only for $50/mo. Sprint will give you 4G+3G for $44.99/mo (3G does have a cap).

And for home and mobile?

Clear Home & Mobile Service (4G only) for $100/mo Cable Company & Mobile Service (3G+4G) for ~$94.90/mo

No revolutionary industry-changing pricing here...

This was intentional I believe. They want out of the consumer market. Much easier for them to be a wholesaler to larger ISPs.

sprint will have cap on 4g same as on 3g plans. dunno about clear but doubt its truly "unlimited".

they have advantage over sprint with no activation fees and prepaid plans though but u wont fall back on 3G.

Unless you count throttling unlimited, then you are right, its not truly unlimited on Clear.

Re: Dumb move

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:10:27 EDT

dib22 posted :

said by Duramax08:

And the capping begins...

Interesting timing, no? :D

Re: Dumb move

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:44:53 EDT

Duramax08 posted :

said by dib22:

said by kpfx:

Sprint will give you 4G+3G for $44.99/mo (3G does have a cap).

please see »support.sprint.com/support/artic···cechange

And the capping begins...

Re: Dumb move

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:26:30 EDT

KrK posted : More of those "choices" vanishing.

Re: Dumb move

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:18:22 EDT

dib22 posted :

said by kpfx:

Sprint will give you 4G+3G for $44.99/mo (3G does have a cap).

please see »support.sprint.com/support/artic···cechange

Re: Dumb move

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:05:43 EDT

newcom posted : very expensive the services (I prefer to go to the library or mdonald)

Re: Dumb move

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:18:28 EDT

itguy05 posted : Just get the mobile with the WiFi hotspot. You can take it anywhere, good for 8 devices, and would suit home users fine....

Re: Dumb move

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:55:03 EDT

chgo_man99 posted :

said by swintec:

said by kpfx:

This was intentional I believe. They want out of the consumer market. Much easier for them to be a wholesaler to larger ISPs.

Re: Dumb move

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:10:24 EDT

swintec posted :

said by kpfx:

This was intentional I believe. They want out of the consumer market. Much easier for them to be a wholesaler to larger ISPs.

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Dumb move

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:45:44 EDT

kpfx posted : Wow... I think they shot themselves in the foot here.

Clear will give you 4G-Only for $50/mo.
Sprint will give you 4G+3G for $44.99/mo (3G does have a cap).

And for home and mobile?

Clear Home & Mobile Service (4G only) for $100/mo
Cable Company & Mobile Service (3G+4G) for ~$94.90/mo

No revolutionary industry-changing pricing here...