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It doesn't appear until three second bill. If you got a confirmation text message, you're all set. It is very relevant. Sprint subsidies disappear and the discussion shifts to our new tmobile accounts.

Yeah we went from $150 plus tax to 72 taxes included switching three sero lines. So crazy. But yeah tmobile employees on Reddit clarified the exact dollar amounts.

$64, not $50. Kickback is $8/line if you redeemed the 20% code and the free line isn't eligible for kickback. Still a fantastic deal, but don't get surprised when you're bill isn't $50.

We'll see how that goes in 12 months when all of the new people signing up for the $90 unlimited family plan have their bill increase by $100. They won't be on a contract and can cancel freely.

Well they have zero revenue from me now. I jumped ship. With subsidies off the table, I stand to save a lot by dumping our family's SERO plans. The only real disadvantage is we lose the individual bills going to each user. I'm okay with that since we save money. Tmobile routinely offers deals to existing users on devices. Most of Sprint's offers exclude all but new users.

So... Contract pricing is back in my account. How many times will they keep changing their minds on this? It's almost comical at this point.

I'm still annoyed that they blacklisted Sprint prepaid, virgin mobile, boost, and all inexpensive prepaid phones from postpaid. Worse is that I can get the boost lg x power for $99 on boost, but $250 on Sprint. Same phone. Same carrier. 250% higher prices for existing customers. Both T-Mobile and AT&T let prepaid variant phones be used on postpaid. Sprint explicitly blocks them. I sincerely hope they change things to retain customers. Their prices are ridiculous and there are never sales for existing customers.

The larger issue for me on getting rid of the subsidies is Sprint's limited "whitelist" of devices you can use on their network along with the strict FED policy on buying used phones. The options for Sprint devices are incredibly limited being mostly high-end flagships or crappy burner phones. On T-Mobile, I can buy a vast number of phones that are good at much lower prices than flagships. OnePlus, Motorola, ZTE, and Blu are all much less expensive than flagships and are not offered on Sprint. Some of them like Moto Z and OnePlus make phones that have better features than Sprint flagships at a much lower price. Once you factor in the prices for a good Sprint phone versus a good T-Mobile phone, it becomes much less expensive to switch to T-Mobile. I've stuck with Sprint for as long as I have because of SERO. But even SERO has few advantages over T-Mobile since each time we try to swap phones, we're told we need to move to a $60 SERO unlimited and that the $50 SERO is being phased out. At a $10 price difference between SERO unlimited and T-Mobile unlimited, the cost of a new phone really is the difference in how much the monthly bill amounts to. If Sprint wants to kill subsidies to maintain profitability, that's great for Sprint. If they want to maintain customers, they really need to become more flexible on which phones can be offered on their network. Otherwise, they really are not being competitive.

Does anyone here have news on if they are getting rid of SERO plans? Sprint users has a thread where people are reporting plan changes bumping them up to a $70 plan. I'm on SERO and just tried to swap a phone yesterday and was told my plan isn't available anymore. If contracts are gone and my plan is gone, that bumps my plan from $50 to $95 per month between plan increases and installment payments. I understand some changes, but that nearly doubles my plan costs and makes many other Sprint alternatives including project fi and tmobile (and even my brother's Verizon family plan) cheaper for my family. Side note: I really don't get why Sprint doesn't offer leasing and installments on cheaper phones like Moto X, Moto G, and Nexus phones. It would be less of an ouch than the flagship phones that are all that they offer that are not crappy phones.

Any other news of lollipop? It's no longer on the Sprint support page, and I can't find any updated information on a new eta.

Any idea if it's free with number porting (new customers only) or free without number porting (upgrades as well)? The fine print is not legible in that picture. If it's free for upgrades, I'll be happy.

I don't see this on any maps to indicated 4G should be available in this area, but I had a strong 4G connection dining here yesterday (south end of bountiful). Speed test indicated 12 megabytes down, 5 up. This was a pleasant surprise when I had to look up something on my phone. Since wimax never made it to Bountiful, I was very pleased and surprised to have LTE coverage.