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I guess I will post here too... not sure which thread this goes in: http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news/company-news/4x-the-data.htm $45 for 2 GB of Data. This undercuts Sprint family share pricing (2 GB for $25+$25 line fee) by $5. http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news/10-line-family-plan.htm 10 lines for just $10 per line after the second subscriber. http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news/double-your-data-tablet.htm Double data when you add a tablet.. I wonder how Sprint will respond, if at all?

http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news/company-news/4x-the-data.htm $45 for 2 GB of Data. This undercuts Sprint family share pricing (2 GB for $25+$25 line fee) by $5. http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news/10-line-family-plan.htm 10 lines for just $10 per line after the second subscriber. http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news/double-your-data-tablet.htm Double data when you add a tablet.. I wonder how Sprint will respond, if at all?

As an aside, I haven't seen much momentum in Sprint stores. Both of the stores I visited this last weekend were pretty empty but both stores were training new people in anticipation. I am not super surprised though. Sprint service still varies quite a bit here in Austin. T-Mobile on the other hand had a waiting list just to be seen and the vast majority of people seemed to be coming from AT&T. Maybe when I go in next weekend it will be busier.

You are correct only because I am functionally retarded at reading my own spreadsheet.

You mean family share pricing for the first two options right?? For one line there would be a $25 line charge for both which brings them to $60 and $75 respectively. This is even for new users as line fees are only waived at 20 GB or higher tiers. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L4FXkfyfM69LNJ6-vJ0baMZxdSWJ8N8aQNS_vVd5XOM

I'll echo what GoBigRed79 said and add this thread from the Howard Forums that seems to have covered quite a bit of the information already: http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1843922-Sprint-US-Cellular-merger/page4

Hey, they called the pricing disruptive so we are making progress!

So will this become a race to the bottom with the photo finish winners being Verizon and AT&T? Maybe in response to these changes Sprint will offer 5 GB tethering/hotspot for the unlimited plans or something. Or maybe they actually ARE able to drop it to $50/line for everyone in which case it becomes price competitive with the family share plan for existing customers. For example you can get 20 GB for 3 lines @ $145 vs 3 unlimited lines @ $150. For people with deep customer discounts the amount eligible would only be half of the potential $50 (or 44.25 with a 23% discount line I have) So for that example 1 line and 2 lines will always beat family share and 3 lines unlimited would be $132.75 vs $122.00 (20 GB family share w/23% discount). For new customers the price advantage on family share is huge when combined with discounts. You can get the 32GB tier for any amount of lines for $100.10 (23% discount) or even 40 GB for $115.50. You can compare it yourself @ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L4FXkfyfM69LNJ6-vJ0baMZxdSWJ8N8aQNS_vVd5XOM/

What about T-Mobile? I have a Nexus 5 and Iphone 5 which should both work on Swiss Cheese-Mobile.

This was the case for Sprint owned MVNOs but not Ting. I had friends that ported from Ting back to Sprint and had promo deals given to them. It was one of the reasons I joined Ting rather than leaving Sprint altogether.

Super disappointed in Sprint today. I went into the corporate store to sign up and the process was a mess. First I had to setup the account and then verify a zero balance with sprint from 15 months ago when I left for Ting. The verification took 45 minutes. Once that was done I was then informed by the manager that because I am on Ting I am not eligible for the waived port in fee. So over an hour and 15 mins for nothing. Apparently I am still considered a Sprint customer when I pay a different company for service. For my two lines this was a $30/month difference and it killed the deal for me. I don't see myself rejoining Sprint ever again because of this. I'll have to explore my options elsewhere. Very disappointed because this restriction for Ting was not in place before. Anyways, thus ends my experience with Sprint.

Does it happen just where you are or is it in other areas around town? If it is just where you are I am 99% sure it is just something misconfigured on Sprint's end rather than something malicious.

Really weird. Perhaps a tower your phone is connecting to has bad DNS settings? I'd give Sprint a call as I have never heard of this outside using AT&T/TWC/Comast's DNS settings and seeing a spammy page for search results when it can't connect to a website (which is why I use the Google DNS).

Try setting your DNS to the Google DNS servers https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/ or to OpenDNS http://wdgfstatus.com/opendns-win7/ Or do you mean your phone's browser?

I just wish Data = Data. I dislike having certain data be used for certain things or certain apps being excluded (seriously T-Mobile? you net neutrality ignoring assholes) Frankly I find the way Ting does data buckets per actual usage to be how I wish everything was done. Unfortunately Ting has goddamn expensive data buckets and for now I keep my phone lines locked down to under 500 MB/mo (which sucks).

Okay then make tethering addons double your data for 1 GB and 3 GB and for unlimited cap it at 5 or 6 GB. That way it is a nice value add and still keeps the tiers from being better than one another.

Personally I think the best step would be $30 1 GB (or 2 GB?) unlimited talk text no tethering $45 3 GB (or 4 GB?) unlimited talk text no tethering $60 Unlimited Data unlimited talk text unlimited tethering For the $35 and $45 plans they should make it a $10/mo tether option

Thanks for this I was wondering how exactly they would treat the existing lines. As an aside the pricing spreadsheet I made had 80+ viewing people when I checked it last night so apparently there is interest in these plans, disruptive or not. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L4FXkfyfM69LNJ6-vJ0baMZxdSWJ8N8aQNS_vVd5XOM/edit?usp=sharing

Oh God, at that point it would be faster to shout "101010011101010110101" out your window and hope Legere can hear you.

Depending on the credit card you bought it with you also probably get extended warranties rolled into it. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/5335-phone-insurance-a-rip-off/page-2?hl=%20credit%20%20card%20%20warranty

No problem . It isn't like the plans are going anywhere.

Yeah, I am also waiting for our resident Sprint employer extraordinaire Rocket87 to get details on how it might be applied.

Well, one potential loophole option would be to switch to Ting and lock down data on your lines and then switch back to Sprint after the 30-45 day (I think?) period so you become a new customer. It honestly looks worth it to me when I look at the pricing difference there. If someone asked me if I would clamp my lines down and use no data for a month for $960 (4 lines @ 20GB over 16 months of the promotion) .. it would be an easy choice. Nothing wrong with doing this in my eyes as that is what the terms say at Sprint. I'd rather see someone do that than move to another carrier altogether.

Hum, that is one way of looking at it. I made my little spreadsheet after seeing how many people complained about the price. To me the biggest thing about these family plans is that the employer discount can be HUGE for some people. For me, I can have 2 lines with a total of 24 GB for only SEVENTY SEVEN ($77) DOLLARS! (I think I am convincing myself to pull the trigger). That is cheaper than T-Mobiles 1 GB per phone plan for 2 lines! However, I can definitely see that current subs can get a real stick in the ass when they see the calculated savings for new subs over a promotional period or for heavy data users on a Framily unlimited line looking at this as an inferior plan which is in some ways correct. Many people here and on other Sprint user forums are on cheaper historic plans and see this as a price increase or see the family shared data as losing unlimited which is accurate and totally fine. I want Sprint to succeed but the real question is are these plans enough to help them succeed? I am leaning towards maybe right now and yes depending on how discounts to the individual plans are applied and if they consider allowing tethering for individual plans.

Considering how long people have had some REALLY damn old plans here I would guess you are fine for quite a while.