Sprint offers $90 unlimited voice, $100 including text messaging

"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."

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:41:39 -0800, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
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!

Anon E. Muss <anonymous@example.org> wrote:

>On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:41:39 -0800, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
>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?

me@privacy.net wrote:
> Anon E. Muss <anonymous@example.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:41:39 -0800, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
>> 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

Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
> In article <47c6e38c$0$36351$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
> SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> 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.

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" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
news:47c787d1$0$36356$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
> Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
>> In article <47c6e38c$0$36351$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
>> SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> 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.

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" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
> news:47c787d1$0$36356$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
>> Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
>>> In article <47c6e38c$0$36351$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
>>> SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> 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.

Anon E. Muss <anonymous@example.org> wrote:

>On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:41:39 -0800, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
>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

William H. Bowen <wh_bowen@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
news:lu7js3t6l1s1kgqjjm4a4shj8a2a7fjge8@4ax.com:

> 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.

"SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
news:47c6e38c$0$36351$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
> "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.

Scott in SoCal <scottenaztlan@yahoo.com> wrote in
newspujs3tdrmd8htpa0kd8s5fc77cgicdqnu@4ax.com:

> 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;

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

Bill T <wctom1@pacbell.net> wrote in news:47ca1727$0$19527
$9a6e19ea@news.newshosting.com:

> 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.

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.

"Liberal's HATE America!!" <GoHillary@1yah3.edu> wrote:

>
>"SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
>news:47c6e38c$0$36351$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net.. .
>> "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

DTC <me@nothingtoseehere.zzx> wrote in news:QcJyj.10828$Mw.364
@nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com:

> 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.
>
>

I'll bite. What can an Aircard plugged into a laptop do that a laptop
plugged into a sellphone can't?

Please don't tell me you can use the aircard as a sellphone if you plug a
headset into the side of your computer....please. That's a joke!

Larry wrote:
> DTC <me@nothingtoseehere.zzx> wrote in news:QcJyj.10828$Mw.364
> @nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com:
>
>> 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.
>
> I'll bite. What can an Aircard plugged into a laptop do that a laptop
> plugged into a sellphone can't?

How many Verizon and Sprint phones are running CDMA Rev A at the moment?

On Mar 3, 1:33*am, DTC <m...@nothingtoseehere.zzx> wrote:
> Larry wrote:
> > DTC <m...@nothingtoseehere.zzx> wrote in news:QcJyj.10828$Mw.364
> > @nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com:
>
> >> 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.
>
> > I'll bite. *What can an Aircard plugged into a laptop do that a laptop
> > plugged into a sellphone can't?
>
> How many Verizon and Sprint phones are running CDMA Rev A at the moment?

BTW Blackberry users must pay $20 more to Sprint each month for this
'unlimited' feature since it costs Sprint if they use the Blackberry
servers, ie unlimited BB is $119 at Sprint.

Larry <noone@home.com> amazed us all with the following in
news:Xns9A56D36C5054noonehomecom@208.49.80.253:

> DTC <me@nothingtoseehere.zzx> wrote in news:QcJyj.10828$Mw.364
> @nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>
> I'll bite. What can an Aircard plugged into a laptop do that a laptop
> plugged into a sellphone can't?

Operate within the TOS on the Sprint network.

>
> Please don't tell me you can use the aircard as a sellphone if you
> plug a headset into the side of your computer....please. That's a
> joke!
>
>

And why would it be a joke?

The Bob <nospam@bob.com> wrote in news:Xns9A56C1DC5CC77bob@216.196.97.136:

>> I'll bite. What can an Aircard plugged into a laptop do that a laptop
>> plugged into a sellphone can't?
>
> Operate within the TOS on the Sprint network.
>

What the hell kind of answer is that? Sprint doesn't allow tethering? You
need a new carrier!

Larry <noone@home.com> amazed us all with the following in
news:Xns9A56EAAE6697noonehomecom@208.49.80.253:

> The Bob <nospam@bob.com> wrote in
> news:Xns9A56C1DC5CC77bob@216.196.97.136:
>
>>> I'll bite. What can an Aircard plugged into a laptop do that a
>>> laptop plugged into a sellphone can't?
>>
>> Operate within the TOS on the Sprint network.
>>
>
> What the hell kind of answer is that?

The correct one.

> Sprint doesn't allow tethering?

A well documented scenario.

> You need a new carrier!

Why? Where did I say that I carry a Sprint phone?

>
>

Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:

>The Bob <nospam@bob.com> wrote in news:Xns9A56C1DC5CC77bob@216.196.97.136:
>
>>> I'll bite. What can an Aircard plugged into a laptop do that a laptop
>>> plugged into a sellphone can't?
>>
>> Operate within the TOS on the Sprint network.
>>
>
>What the hell kind of answer is that? Sprint doesn't allow tethering? You
>need a new carrier!

Yes, they do. You just have to pay for it. They call it Phone As
Modem (PAM).

Jack Hamilton <jfh@acm.org> amazed us all with the following in
news:2ukps39bb5u4l78mqu8o9krq1ognghh08l@4ax.com:

> Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:
>
>>The Bob <nospam@bob.com> wrote in
>>news:Xns9A56C1DC5CC77bob@216.196.97.136:
>>
>>>> I'll bite. What can an Aircard plugged into a laptop do that a
>>>> laptop plugged into a sellphone can't?
>>>
>>> Operate within the TOS on the Sprint network.
>>>
>>
>>What the hell kind of answer is that? Sprint doesn't allow tethering?
>> You need a new carrier!
>
> Yes, they do. You just have to pay for it. They call it Phone As
> Modem (PAM).
>
>

That would be correct. I stand corrected in my statement,

>>
>> Please don't tell me you can use the aircard as a sellphone if you
>> plug a headset into the side of your computer....please. That's a
>> joke!
>>
>>
>
> And why would it be a joke?

What is a "Sellphone"? Is that like when you go into a cellular phone store
and they sell you a phone?

Jar-Jar

"Jar-Jar Binks" <jarjar@nospam.com> wrote in
news:yG4zj.59412$ov5.36909@newsfe15.phx:

> What is a "Sellphone"? Is that like when you go into a cellular phone
> store and they sell you a phone?
>
> Jar-Jar
>
>

That would be the wireless phone in your pocket that nickel and dimes you
to death, charging you by the month for the simplest of applications like
copying your pictures to your PC or transferring the tiniest messages on
the planet for $900,000 per gigabyte.

Everything a SELLphone does is to SELL you something more.....TV, music,
messages, internet, ad nauseum.....

It's like a goddamned box office in your pocket!

Jack Hamilton wrote:
> Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:
>
>> The Bob <nospam@bob.com> wrote in news:Xns9A56C1DC5CC77bob@216.196.97.136:
>>
>>>> I'll bite. What can an Aircard plugged into a laptop do that a laptop
>>>> plugged into a sellphone can't?
>>> Operate within the TOS on the Sprint network.
>>>
>> What the hell kind of answer is that? Sprint doesn't allow tethering? You
>> need a new carrier!
>
> Yes, they do. You just have to pay for it. They call it Phone As
> Modem (PAM).

$39.99 PAM Plan which is unlimited, but they don't have any Rev A
phones, so a data card is better (with a $59.99 plan).

While dumping the alt.cellular.attws,alt.cellular.sprintpcs bit bucket,
I heard DTC say:

> Jack Hamilton wrote:
>> Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The Bob <nospam@bob.com> wrote in news:Xns9A56C1DC5CC77bob@216.196.97.136:
>>>
>>>>> I'll bite. What can an Aircard plugged into a laptop do that a laptop
>>>>> plugged into a sellphone can't?
>>>> Operate within the TOS on the Sprint network.
>>>>
>>> What the hell kind of answer is that? Sprint doesn't allow tethering? You
>>> need a new carrier!
>>
>> Yes, they do. You just have to pay for it. They call it Phone As
>> Modem (PAM).
>
> $39.99 PAM Plan which is unlimited, but they don't have any Rev A
> phones, so a data card is better (with a $59.99 plan).

On the other hand, the PAM plan can be started and stopped at will,
while the data card commits you to 2-year contract. The value of the
trade-offs either way would depend on your own usage of course.

--
Dutch

Dutch wrote:
> On the other hand, the PAM plan can be started and stopped at will,
> while the data card commits you to 2-year contract. The value of the
> trade-offs either way would depend on your own usage of course.

Good point, I forgot about that. When I do add that kind of
"feature" (depending on what carrier calls such an add-on), I
state or ask very clearly that I can use it month to month.
With all the stories floating around with people getting
their contract extended for the smallest things...

While dumping the alt.cellular.attws,alt.cellular.sprintpcs bit bucket,
I heard DTC say:

> Dutch wrote:
>> On the other hand, the PAM plan can be started and stopped at will,
>> while the data card commits you to 2-year contract. The value of the
>> trade-offs either way would depend on your own usage of course.
>
> Good point, I forgot about that. When I do add that kind of
> "feature" (depending on what carrier calls such an add-on), I
> state or ask very clearly that I can use it month to month.
> With all the stories floating around with people getting
> their contract extended for the smallest things...

Yep, that's definitely something you want to make clear up front. I
think some of the data card plans allow for a suspension of service for
some period of time, but it gets added on the other end.

--
Dutch

On Feb 28, 5:41*pm, SMS <scharf.ste...@geemail.com> 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."

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