Sprint News

UPDATED: 3/20/2015       Ever since its introduction last month, Sprint’s Financial Eligibility Check (FEC) has been a nightmare for its MVNO business partners as well as their potential customers.  Just yesterday I was contacted by someone who claims the issue is still going strong when they were unable to activate

Today Sprint announced a new deal involving its family share plans.  For $90/month customers can now get unlimited talk, text, and 12 GB of shared data for up to 10 lines.  Using its magic wizardry with numbers and slick wording, Sprint claims this is “the best family share plan available

        The war to wrestle away each others subscribers continued today between Sprint and T-Mobile as Sprint announced that it will guarantee all T-Mobile customers instantly a minimum of $200 for porting in their number AND trading in their current working T-Mobile phone at a participating Sprint store.  The offer

        In it’s fight to increase market share, Sprint has elected to take another page out of T-Mobile’s book by lowering rates on a couple of it’s plans.  Sprint’s latest quarterly results weren’t too favorable from a postpaid subscriber point of view as they reported a net loss of

Sprint Amends iPhone Every Year Program With Early Upgrade Option Sprint recently amended their iPhone for Life program, and now you can get a new iPhone every year, but is it worth it for you?  Let’s take a closer look at this new policy. First off, you must purchase an

RingPlus Announces the Magic Plan      RingPlus seems to be experimenting with new and creative ideas for prepaid plans.  They have just announced a new “matching” plan.  How useful, or who ends up taking advantage of this plan remains to be seen.  The way it will work is a

     Sprint today revamped it’s prepaid lineup with a pricing structure on par with it’s Boost Mobile brand.  For those of you don’t know, Sprint owns the Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile brands, so they seem to be creating a bit of a redundancy here.  The Virgin and Boost Mobile

Sprint and T-Mobile today both announced aggressive plans to go after trade-ins of your used mobile phone and to hopefully gain a new customer.  One of these two is a bit more aggressive than the other.  Let’s start the discussion by dissecting Sprint’s offering first. Sprint’s Trade in Program Sprint

Today Sprint intended to shake up the mobile industry by offering a new unlimited data plan for individuals, but instead, they released well, something. This “new” plan is similar to what a lot of MVNO’s already have. The plan costs $60 and in order to qualify you must purchase a

Sprint’s New Family Share Pack Data Plans Sprint has done it today, by announcing new family data plans, putting the pressure on the other carriers, even outdoing in some ways T-Mobile’s new family plan.  For $100 plus a $15 per line access fee, no matter the size of your family,

Following T-mobile’s lead, staring June 27th, Sprint will be offering potential customers the opportunity to try their network risk free for 30 days.  If you’re not satisfied with the carrier, Sprint will fully refund the cost of your device and waive activation fees and monthly charges if you cancel within that time

In an attempt to cannibalize itself, Sprint has decided to launch it’s own prepaid service.  Since Sprint already offers it’s own prepaid services under the brand names Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile this move seems a bit puzzling.  I would hope that under the actual prepaid name Sprint, roaming would

Sprint has decided to become even more crappy by not allowing customer’s of it’s various MVNO’s to use certain BYOSD (Bring your own Sprint Device) phones on it’s network.  Did you just buy a new Nexus 5 from the play store to use with a Sprint MVNO?  Guess what?  Can’t