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

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

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.

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.

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?

I thought you had service with with Alltel but you get billed from Verizon,
Do you even know what you have?
Al


"Larry" <noone@home.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9A557FEECC0B8noonehomecom@208.49.80.253...
> 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.
>
>
>