Comments on: New Sprint Plans Arriving June 15th – More Details Trickling In

By: BPM2000

BPM2000 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:40:39 +0000

thx for the info

i might go sprint if the CDMA touch pro gets on there well before the GSM variant… hopefully they don’t alter their state too much by then.

By: questionfear

questionfear — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:12:22 +0000

I believe you can tether with the “Everything plan” but there’s a rumor Sprint may go the way of AT&T and Verizon and cap out tethering/PAN at 5gb. Granted, thats A LOT of downloading, but something worth watching.

And that only applies to tethering, you could download that much on a handheld and never hit the limit. Although if you can reasonably download 5gb on a handheld I will buy you a drink!

By: BPM2000

BPM2000 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:19:00 +0000

Can u still tether with the “Everything Plan”? Even with the price increase from SERO it still is one of the better prices options if so.

By: Wayne Schulz

Wayne Schulz — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:37:35 +0000

That’s a really good point about making newer phones “incompatible” with SERO. Because as it stands now you can load up a Moto Q, tether it to your laptop, and still only pay $30/mo for unlimited EVDO data (I regularly rang 800k down on my plain EVDO Mogul)

By: questionfear

questionfear — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:32:53 +0000

Or they just want to kill SERO and the way to do it is to say all new phones aren’t compatible.

SERO became an underground sensation, but it was never intended to be the widespread “if you’re on sprint it’s only worth it for SERO” draw. Sprint loses major money on it, especially since they’ve got subscribers running in droves away from them. The last thing they need is to discount even further on a phone that could bring in those high margin data rates they desperately need. This is a numbers game, and as it stands Sprint Nextel is severely on the losing end. I have zero doubt that on the “Sprint turnaround checklist” is “kill SERO/make SERO really hard to get”. If AT&T can charge 30.00/month for data and Verizon 30-49.99, Sprint is looking at it and wondering why their subscribers feel entitled to this mythical discount.

By: Wayne Schulz

Wayne Schulz — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:29:02 +0000

I really think that Sprint is on track with their Everything plans. I love the fact that you don’t have to worry about the data and messaging costs.

It also takes them away from the nickle and diming that you see so often with phone companies.

By: Joel McLaughlin

Joel McLaughlin — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:02:34 +0000

How can a phone not be compatible with a plan? That just sounds greedy…kind of like when Apple did away with iPod discounts for students and staff of a university.