Sprint Launches LTE Plus Network, Offers 50% Off Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T Rate Plans to Celebrate

[smirking]

T-Mobile has great plans but I find that T-Mobile has worse coverage then even Sprint .

I generally find that T-Mobile's data coverage is generally pretty good. It's the call coverage that makes them unusable for me. I have a T-mobile SIM card in my iPad and a Verizon phone. Between the two, no matter where I'm at, I'll get decent data coverage usually.

 

[mcdj]

This is like a $3.99 all you can eat buffet of terrible food. No matter how bad it is, some people will come.

 

[Dominicanyor]

Regardless of everything those prices are looking good!!

 

[chasemac]

This is like a $3.99 all you can eat buffet of terrible food. No matter how bad it is, some people will come.

And pay for it in the morning.

 

[macfoxpro]

Hopefully a lot of people leave ATT for this. Perhaps then we can get one hell of a price war going. I would love to cut my cell bill by a good 20%....or more.
You know I'm a dreamer.

 

[Black Magic]

Man, as a current VZW customer (with no complaints of service).. it is so tempting to switch to TMobile or Sprint with all these offers. I just don't want an unreliable phone and have to flip flop between carriers.

Don't do it. You will regret it. I was on Sprint for more than a decade because of price. When they started doing LTE, my iPhone would only get LTE in random spots around the city when it had 90% LTE coverage according to the map. My wife, thought the iPhone sucked because of the crappy data connection from Sprint. I imagine many customers thought the ipHone was bad as well for the same reason.

We ended up switching to AT&T and now we get LTE signal everywhere. I'll never drop down to a lower tier carrier like Sprint or T-Mobile. You get what you pay for and ultimately it just isn't worth it.

 

[kittycat40]

http://www.howardforums.com/showthr...-3-Million-New-Customers-300-Million-POPs-LTE!

2.3 Million New Customers Join the Un-carrier Revolution as the Company Delivers
11% Service Revenue Growth and 42% Adjusted EBITDA Growth Year-over-Year

Third Quarter 2015 Highlights:

• Continued customer momentum for the fastest growing wireless company in America:
  • 2.3 million total net adds – 10th consecutive quarter of over 1 million
  • 1.1 million branded postpaid net adds – 5th consecutive quarter of over 1 million
  • 843,000 branded postpaid phone net adds – expect to lead industry in branded postpaid phone net adds for 7th consecutive quarter
  • Branded prepaid net adds of 595,000 – more than tripling branded prepaid net adds QoQ
  • Continued improvement in branded postpaid phone churn – down 18 bps YoY
• Customer growth is translating into industry-leading financial growth:
  • $6.3 billion service revenues, up 11% YoY
  • $7.8 billion total revenues, up 7% YoY
  • $1.9 billion Adjusted EBITDA, up 42% YoY
    • 30% Adjusted EBITDA margin, up over 600 bps from 24% in 3Q14
  • $138 million net income, up from a loss of $94 million in 3Q14
  • $0.15 earnings per share, continue to expect positive earnings going forward
  • $411 million free cash flow, up from a loss of $69 million in 3Q14 – expect to be positive for full-year 2015
  • Stable branded postpaid phone ARPU of $47.99
• Growth fueled by America’s fastest and fastest growing 4G LTE network:
  • 300 million 4G LTE POPs covered – achieved the year-end 2015 goal months ahead of schedule
  • 245 Wideband LTE market areas – on track for more than 260 market areas by year-end 2015
  • “Extended Range LTE” covers nearly 175 million POPs across 204 market areas – on track for more than 350 market areas by year-end 2015
  • Fastest 4G LTE network in the US – leading in average download speeds for 7th consecutive quarter
• Raising customer outlook for 2015 again while maintaining Adjusted EBITDA target:
  • Guidance range for branded postpaid net adds increased to 3.8 to 4.2 million – third raise this year
  • Maintaining target of $6.8 to $7.2 billion of Adjusted EBITDA
  • Maintaining target of $4.4 to $4.7 billion of cash capex
  • Financial guidance excludes any impact of JUMP! On Demand and Data Stash
  
  
  T-Mobile is now the 3rd Largest carrier with 61.2 million subscribers.

Also T-Mobile has expanded into rural areas hence they now cover 302 million pops with LTE.
Despite what the T-Mobile haters say: T-Mobile is expanding into rural areas. Hence they recently started adding new native coverage in Montana.

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1871038-T-Mobile-in-Montana

 

[Noble Actual]

So you're suppose to hate the big carriers (AT&T and Verizon) and love the smaller, more innovative ones (T-Mobile and Sprint) but this just looks desperate.

I mean this is equivalent to those $0.01 Android phones sales they have once in a while. Hey get the newest LG or Samsung or Droid or Lumia for basically free and a bunch of other cool **** like a 1 year free of this and a 30 day trial for this, etc.

No. I'm not going to switch. Not going to switch even if you paid me.

Guess I'm lucky or whatever but Verizon LTE is very, very good where I live. I know I'm suppose to hate them but idk, they haven't really ****ed me in any way. Long loyal customer? Bias? Don't really know, don't really care.

Was tempted to switch my family plan to T-Mobile when 3/4 upgraded to the iPhone 6 last year. Didn't do it. Its just not worth the hassle.

 

[Agent OrangeZ]

Hey Sprint... I pay $120 for 4 lines with 10GB each at T-Mobile. You gonna sell that to me for $60?

 

[lordofthereef]

Hey Sprint... I pay $120 for 4 lines with 10GB each at T-Mobile. You gonna sell that to me for $60?

I was wondering the same. The way their breakdown works, no. They waited for
T-Mobile to announce their new pricing to drop this offer. It seems like they're just cutting in half currently offered T-Mobile plans. They will, however, give it to you for $90. Music freedom alone eats up the equivalent of 5+ gigs on two of our lines so, it's sadly still not very comparable (assuming all else is equal)

 

[Parasprite]

So Sprint customers will still be better off financially leaving Sprint for a cheaper plan on another network?

The US is a weird place.

 

[Lazy]

Zero issues with T-Mobile here and at $30 a month for 5GB of high speed I've been quite happy. Admittedly I don't live in the boonies but ever since Band 12 was implemented where I live it's been smooth sailing while my parents' AT&T has been slowly getting worse and worse for about double the cost.

How did you get those plan terms? Their current cheapest plan is 2GB for $50/mo (which was only 1GB until a couple of days ago).

 

[RadioGaGa1984]

OMG I'm so excited I can't believe it. This is such amazing news. Wait, Who is Sprint?

 

[MacBH928]

$50 for 15GB month limit? Any one feel this is a rip-off? You can easily consume 500mb a day, its just a few HD video on youtube.

 

[zsbradt]

Hey Sprint... I pay $120 for 4 lines with 10GB each at T-Mobile. You gonna sell that to me for $60?

Found this in the fine print of Sprint's webpage as I have the same plan as you:

"T-Mobile plan: Discount offer limited to T-Mobile’s advertised Simple Choice rate plan prices as of 11/16/15 for 2GB, 6GB and 10GB for non-discounted handsets only; tablet and MBB rate plans excluded. T-Mobile unlimited data rate plan excluded. Data is not shared among multiple lines. After high-speed data allotment is used, speeds will be reduced to 2G speeds (up to 128kbps) until the end of your bill cycle. Add'l on-network high-speed data allowance may be purchased at $15/GB."

So no, only the plans available now.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

I'd love to know where they are getting their prices... I have four lines of T-Mobile at 10 GB for $100 a month.

 

[howardnow]

Just switched from Verizon to Sprint today for half the price of my Verizon plan. I live in Los angeles and Verizon did not work in my local coffee shops, cafe's, vons, etc. Verizon did not even work inside buildings at a large studio I work at in Burbank. My new iphone on Sprint seems to be working well in all these places. I did check there service out with another phone before I bought mine. All is better at half price!
I do wish I had checked out Verizon before getting locked in a couple years ago. I suggest checking out any carrier before buying in - don't get stuck!

 

[FieldingMellish]

The question is whether Sprint service is worth half the price.

 

[gatortpk]

Up to 100 Mbps? I just got 137 Mbps on AT&T.

 

[doctor_der]

I still don't understand why in America the cellular prices are so darn high. I've lived in Europe and could get 2GB of high speed data and then reduced Data for about 15 dollars a month. In korea I could get unlimited everything for about 60 dollars.

 

[Robert.Walter]

Sprint needs to offer something like T-Mobile's Test Drive program wherein they loan you a new phone for a week to see if you are satisfied with their system before making any commitment to switch.

I set up a TD for my mom and the T-Mobile folks were super helpful and friendly. On that alone we almost switched but the coverage in their rural area just wasn't as good as Verizon to be able to use as a primary phone. (If wiFi calling had existed then, we might have switched.)

 

[surfologist87]

Half the service for half the price!
I'll stick with att, and keep my unlimited data for now!

 

[0098386]

One day I'll have the energy to read up on US phone networks and find out why they cost so much, why they have multiple lines, why they charge the call receiver (or if they even still do that).

 

[Plutonius]

I generally find that T-Mobile's data coverage is generally pretty good. It's the call coverage that makes them unusable for me. I have a T-mobile SIM card in my iPad and a Verizon phone. Between the two, no matter where I'm at, I'll get decent data coverage usually.

You are very lucky then with T-Mobile. I often have to carry a second phone when I want to guarantee making calls. I have friends with Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint and they usually have no issues with reception .

Sprint needs to offer something like T-Mobile's Test Drive program wherein they loan you a new phone for a week to see if you are satisfied with their system before making any commitment to switch.

I agree with that 100%. All the providers need a plan like that.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

I still don't understand why in America the cellular prices are so darn high. I've lived in Europe and could get 2GB of high speed data and then reduced Data for about 15 dollars a month. In korea I could get unlimited everything for about 60 dollars.

Because we pay those prices. We'll certainly gripe about it but, in the end, Americans pay these prices. If we actually acted on our gripes (by choosing NOT to pay these prices as a group), pricing would come down for all of us. Competition works just fine in our system (capitalism) but it depends on the (bulk of) consumers doing their part (which is NOT pay any price because "I just MUST HAVE a cell phone"). If most of us refused voice + text + data service if priced above about $20/month, all the players would soon be cutting their pricing to such levels. Instead, we'll pay just about any price, gripe to no end about it... but pay anyway... distracted by the game of "my service provider is better than your service provider."