TheCUJuan

But there's a new sheriff in town...

Sprint's

Maybe.. but we're paying a whopping $112 all in for four lines and two of the lines will probably always get $10 kickback credits. So for now I'll milk the cheap plan while I can. FYI tmo data speeds in abq are way, way faster than sprint's...And I did this as a trial. If i don't like it, i can always go back as all the phones are unlocked. Or even try Verizon.

I find it very interesting that suddenly when the tenor of this thread and general sprint perception was going south fast, sprint seems to be righting the ship and releasing all these great news. Maybe the figure is not so grim for sprint after all. I gotta say that while I had a great 3 1/2 years with sprint, T-Mobile just made us an offer too great not to take up - especially with hookup, kickbacks and a free line. That said, all our phones are now unlocked and we could always switch right back to sprint if they come up with better plans.

That said there are workarounds like getting a bestbuy T-Mobile prepaid SIM card for $5

The 50% off your current provider plans that came out a while back also had a price hike after a year or two. I think many of those folks are starting to see higher bills around now.

So sprint is offering many folks who left, $300/line to come back to sprint. Does anyone know what plans they are offering them?

How about T-mo speeds In Abq and Santa Fe?

Sprint does the same thing though

Out of curiosity, I see many people moving to vzn. Have any of you moved to T-Mobile? How is their network comparing to sprint's these days?

If the reaction here and on reddit is any indication this quarter is going to be really tough for sprint.

Wow. That's crazy.

I guess the main difference is that we do have that one phone that would cost us a net $590 as it is a free phone so long as we kept it on sprint, yet we'd have to pay the balance if we cancelled our account. So that's the main difference that keeps us with sprint. Big $500+ fee to change to vzn just on that phone.

were your phones paid off?

And I gotta say that if VZN only cost about four dollars more than Sprint, I would also switch. But in my case, it's more like $60+ dollars. While we could keep our phones, we would have to pay the ETF that SPrint would charge on the two phones we have payments for with them. AFAIK, VZN will only pay the ETF if I trade in the phones. So definitely not worth it for me....

OK.. maybe I'm in a plan that is better than most or I just don't get these complaints. A year ago I got an email encouraging me too switch my plan to the family share pack - 40 gb shared for $120. Better yet, the access fees for lines 1-4 were waived as long as we stayed on that plan. After an employer discount we pay $96 plus taxes and device fees (one of the phones is free (iphone promotion sprint ran last year with phone trade in), the other one pays $20 and I have the third one through the apple upgrade program). So our bill is about $133 (not including the apple payment) and we dont' get tethered if we go over the twenty whatever gb. If I were to switch to VZN, I'd have to get two new VZN phones and my montly bill would be at least $60 more per month than I currently pay. We travel a lot internationally and that would add hundreds of dollars each week we spend abroad compared to what we pay now... So unless I'm missing something, I don't see why these VZN plans are so enticing to some people - at least for me it would cost a ton more and while 40 gb is not unlimited, I have yet to come close to that.

So the comments on sprint's and marcelo's Facebook aren't very positive.

Verizon does allow Canada roaming for free with their new unlimited plan. That said I love sprint open world. Main thing that keeps me with sprint.

Does anyone know how are Verizon speeds in Abq?

How are you liking it

And free calls while in Latin America. It's awesome and they are the only ones that offer it afaik. The $30/gb is also very competitive if you keep open world and travel to Europe etc

I gotta say that this is one of the main things that keep me with sprint.

I wonder what they have in store for current customers

They do. But don't have free calls.

Am I missing something? I pay $120/month. We get a $24 discount so we pay $96 plus tax for three lines that share 40gb. - there's about $20 in fees and taxes. And as far as I know sprint is the only one that has a plan like the open world plan that has free calls in Latin America. Why would I want to switch at this point...