  jjoshuaPremium
join:2001-06-01
Scotch Plains, NJ
kudos:1 | So far so good I've been with VM for a few years with no problems. Even at $15 every 3 months for the prepaid, I have a sizable balance on my account because I really don't use it too much. | |
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 | scooper
join:2000-07-11
Youngsville, NC
kudos:2 | Re: So far so good It's $20 every 3 months to keep your service active.
But yes - the wife and me both find this makes much more sense for us than a traditional cell phone plan. | |
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| | TACSPEEDPremium
join:2001-04-14
Tacoma, WA | Re: So far so good You're both right.
It's $15 every 90 days if you use auto Top-up.
It's $20 every 90 days if you do not sign up for auto Top-up. | |
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join:2000-07-11
Youngsville, NC
kudos:2 | Re: So far so good I've been a Virgin Mobile customer so long that $20 for Auto topoff was the charge. Never got around to looking if something cheaper was available. | |
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join:2001-04-14
Tacoma, WA | Re: So far so good Account Status for Current Pay As You Go Offers
If you are enrolled in one of the Current Pay As You Go offers described above, your account will remain active (the "Active Period") for 90 days after you Top-Up at least $20 ($15 if you select the $15 Auto Top-Up option),
Well, now you know how to save a couple more bucks.
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 Wizeguy
join:2008-08-23
Safety Harbor, FL | I just was checking this out... on Sunday at Best Buy. As a low volume user (never D/L movies or videos) I was thinking this would have been a good way to go. I can get rid of my broadband service go strictly wireless for my e-mail and reading news etc. If Sprint were customer oriented they would change the structure to $10 for 1GB, $20 for 1.5GB, $40 for 3.5GB and $60 for 5GB. They would get a ton of customers jumping ship from the AT&T and Verizon plans that don't offer any choices. Pay as you go with a meter would enhance my online experience. | |
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|  MrMasterjetsetterPremium
join:2000-12-16
St Thomas, VI
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| Re: I just was checking this out... said by Wizeguy:on Sunday at Best Buy. As a low volume user (never D/L movies or videos) I was thinking this would have been a good way to go. I can get rid of my broadband service go strictly wireless for my e-mail and reading news etc. If Sprint were customer oriented they would change the structure to $10 for 1GB, $20 for 1.5GB, $40 for 3.5GB and $60 for 5GB. They would get a ton of customers jumping ship from the AT&T and Verizon plans that don't offer any choices. Pay as you go with a meter would enhance my online experience. Problem with this is you have to use the cards in a certain time period or they expire. That's why this pricing structure sucks.
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| | Wizeguy
join:2008-08-23
Safety Harbor, FL | Re: I just was checking this out... Thanks I did not realize that. Dang I just wish these guys would be customer oriented instead of money oriented. If you get a good deal you usually stick with it. It just seems they attempt to squeeze every nickel and dime out of a person. | |
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| | | MrMasterjetsetterPremium
join:2000-12-16
St Thomas, VI Reviews:
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| Re: I just was checking this out... said by Wizeguy:Thanks I did not realize that. Dang I just wish these guys would be customer oriented instead of money oriented. If you get a good deal you usually stick with it. It just seems they attempt to squeeze every nickel and dime out of a person. I was so excited to read about those plans myself because I really could use an aircard but can't justify $60 a month on top of my $100 plan. ( Tethering not an option...i got a dud of a phone.) but then reading about the early expiration dates I couldn't even consider themm. 
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 ds5v50
join:2003-01-22
Fremont, OH |  Maybe for the good?
I am just hoping for the best. | |
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| | | Re: Maybe for the good? said by ds5v50:Maybe this will be a move to the good. I have been a VM user for years and have seen the service go downhill. I am just hoping for the best. I think this needs to be pointed out. Sprint had their own "pre-paid" service before Virgin Mobile came along. Then VM comes in, offers better customer service (they actually held the #1 rating spot for awhile) while still using the same Sprint network, and outsells Sprint's pre-paid 100 fold.
So whats the logical next step? Put control of the succeeding company in the hands of the one that failed. Time and again...failed. At everything they try...failed.
On the other hand, VM's customer service has been on a downward spiral for the past year, so I guess they've been gearing up to join sprint for awhile now.
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| | ds5v50
join:2003-01-22
Fremont, OH | Re: Maybe for the good? RE: Camelot One 
Oh my Gawd... You could not have put it better.
I even got some family members using VM over Tracphone. I use to boast there CS. Now your lucky to get an 2% english speaking CS rep. Oh did I also mention that if you call CS instead of doing it online they intend to charge you $10 ?
You deffinetly have a way with words.
Still hoping though. | |
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| | Sprint for the less affluent FTW This tells me that at least Mr. Hesse understands there's a sizeable market for the frugal or those with smaller budgets and is catering to it. Finally, a CEO who doesn't have his head up his ass. | |
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| Re: $483M = 0% increased coverage area? Its a risky move, prepaid customers are notorious for churn, which is the bane of the wireless world. What this acquisition says to me is that Hesse and Sprint believe the economy is going to be in the tank for a while, and that price, not necessarily new features, is going to be the growth driver for quite a while. Judging by the success they've had selling the Boost unlimited plan, he may be right.
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| Re: $483M = 0% increased coverage area? It's all a matter of time until Sprint-Nextel annouce the buy out of Leap/Cricket or even MetroPCS or in Ohio- Revol.
It's also a matter of time before they do the flat rate option all together, just like Boost.
Hesse has a business plan in store for Sprint and we're only starting to see the start of it.
Next step for Sprint-Nextel- total flate rate? no contracts? Maybe. It sure would give ATT and VZ a run for their money. | |
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| pretty happy camper I've been with Virgin Mobile for about a year on 2 prepaid plans for me and one of my sons. Since we are pretty tough on phones (I dropped one in the kitchen sink full of soapy water last month), I like their inexpensive phones which you can buy at Radio Shack. As low as $19 (for me) and a $79 texting keyboard phone for the kid. Photos are easy to upload, prices are a little bit higher than MetroPCS but the cheaper priced phones are worth it. | |
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| MrShag
join:2006-07-09
Hamilton, ON Reviews:
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| Re: pretty happy camper I switched from bell plan. that was 60$ a month or so. When I got the phones, I went through 2 or 3 of them. When they die o get lost. its cheap to replace them. 50$ per phone, $.30/minute for the Pay-as-you-go. In a busy phone month I might put 30$ on it in total. If you put a 100$ on it it will keep the balance for a year. So even when you run out, then when i top up again, it will hold the balance until I run out. Instead of the usual 30$/3 month's whether or not you use it. And Awesome Customer service.
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join:2002-06-14
Las Vegas, NV
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| Virgin/Sprint vs ATT.... Virgin/Sprint FTW!!! I've been with Virgin since about 2004, and right after I signed up with them, I went down to Florida with the Red Cross on hurricane assistance. As a Red Cross volunteer I was assigned a donated Cingular/ATT phone, which, very frequently, got calls dropped and no-serv in many areas I had to frequent, which was the Tampa/Bradenton/Port Charlotte area on the west coast. Whereas, my personal phone, on VirginMobile/Sprint, worked swimmingly pretty much everywhere I went. Now up to today, I work in a large building and if I have to go down to the server room in the basement, my company assigned ATT cellphone shows no-service, but my personal Virgin phone works just fine.... Funny part about it, as far as I can tell, there is an ATT "palm tree" just outside our office complex.. I have no idea where the nearest Sprint node is at... | |
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 acadielKeep trying - don't give upPremium
join:2002-06-22
Bloomington, IL
kudos:1 | IPCS?
So Sprint's Corporate is going to own a Prepaid Carrier that provides service in iPCS territory using iPCS's network? Is iPCS going to cause a stink over this? They sure caused a stink over Boost and Nextel being owned by Sprint and operating in their territory (Sprint I believe has until the end of the year to sell the Nextel network.) | |
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| | | Re: IPCS? That Nextel network you want them to sell is making a killing for them in the Boost Mobile market. Last quarter Boost Mobile heavily offset the loss of subscriber from Sprint's CDMA network.
said by acadiel:So explain why they buy out Virgin Mobile but they can't buy out iPCS and get rid of the lawsuits and legal issues they're in over the Nextel network in iPCS territory? So Sprint's Corporate is going to own a Prepaid Carrier that provides service in iPCS territory using iPCS's network? Is iPCS going to cause a stink over this? They sure caused a stink over Boost and Nextel being owned by Sprint and operating in their territory (Sprint I believe has until the end of the year to sell the Nextel network.) | |
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| | | | Re: IPCS? No sprint has till jan 31 2010 to sell the nextel towers in iPCS land or shut them down and this goes for boost mobile also.
Sprint does not have a billion laying around to buy iPCS and prob never will. iPCS makes money sprint loses money. | |
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| | | | | Re: IPCS? Don't count on sprint selling those Nextel towers. They can easily create a "new" company and sell the towers to them. and still have everything.
Sprint won't give up their cash cow that easy. | |
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 aaronwtPremium
join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA | maybe the Virgin Broadband2Go plan will decrease. This plan is perfect for me since I only use it peridoically. I hope they either lower the price or increase the amount of time before the purchased bandwidth expires. | |
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|  cow116Cisco KidPremium
join:2003-03-10
Indianapolis, IN | Re: Sure, no problem-o no sh!t. i was laid off from sprint back in march. | |
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| gotta be BIG...to fail The problem is Sprint isn't big enough for regulators to care if the company fails and has to file for bankruptcy... so Sprint thinks they can acquire more assets to become that entity which is TOO BIG TO FAIL (without corporate welfare assistance).
The main difference is that an ordinary schmo navigating Department of Social Services will get stuck in any one of a million catch-22's when they become unemployed, but made too much money for the year to qualify for anything other than food stamp assistance and a paltry amount as well (of which in over 80% of situations, you have to WORK for those benefits as well). A company on the other hand can do bad, over pay it's top employees, screw the ones at the bottom (think retirement benefits commitments, healthcare for life etc), commit fraud, and borderline fraud (misleading about earnings, for example)-- and not get caught at the illegal/immoral things.. then have a bunch of slick, high-paid laywers come crawling to the government for a check.
The Kicker, OBAMA hasn't done a damn thing about it either! In some cases, it's better to rebuild from the ground up, instead of catching a disintegrating corporation from the top down. Be it a bank, car company, telecom, whatever. | |
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| | | Re: gotta be BIG...to fail Not during a recession it isn't.
But I agree, it would have been nice to see the people responsible for their huge companies' failure to be punished accordingly. But I don't think any candidate would have done that. | |
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| Re: gotta be BIG...to fail Mr. President was going to go after AIG until he and the rest of the lawyers in DC found it was going to cost more money than what it was worth to sue them.
Instead the IRS was given the task to go after them the easy way, taxes. Why? They know how much they made, they know who the people are and can red flag them and make rules that fit just those people.
The IRS will get the people's money back. But if you want to go after GM I think you need to go back to before the last 10years. Maybe back in the 60s when they started the shit then.
Go search YouTube for the GM documentory. | |
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| | New Plan I read that virgin is going to come out with a plan for low-income people that offers 120 minutes for 10 bucks. And i think that it is unfair. I have been a loyal customer and the economy is hard for everyone right now, to offer a break to only a small group os bogus! | |
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mc5w
join:2002-06-14
Independence, OH | I switched From Virgin to Sprint I switched from Virgin Mobile to Sprint after about 1 week because I was initially using $20 per week of prepaid time. Earlier this year, Sprint let me switch to an el cheapo 200 minute per month single phone plan. Sprint is willing to come down on their price if your economy shrinks but they do not advertise the el cheapo plans unless you ask about them. Like most other merchants, they will try to sell their more expensive stuff first.
Also, the Virgin phone kept shutting itself off even though I had programmed it not to do so. After about 3 months and well before the initial minutes expired the phone that I bought went senile.
The two Sanyo SCP-2400 phones that I bought from Sprint have proved to be very rugged. The one that I used the most has survived:
1. Several drops to the floor.
2. Slipped out of my pocket and into the snow when I slipped of a tree root getting into my car. After snow melted kind neighbor found it and called one of my contacts.
3. Has survived a dunk in the toilet. Took it right out, removed the battery, put the phone and battery on top of a fluid filled radiator type electric heater. | |
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Captain Smith says!
Sprint might have a Titanic success with this move. 
Sure, no problem-o
