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Sprint Launches New 'Unlimited Plus' and 'Unlimited Basic' Phone Plans
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I have "free" Sprint service, and it's totally worth it just as a toy. I would never depend on it as my primary service though, as the coverage is atrocious.
These new unlimited plans are a rip off. Sprint was recently, up until today, offering 5 lines for $100 (with autopay) + Tax + The lease of your phone + Any addons + Hulu for free @ 1080p + 10Gb of Hotspot per line. The $22 per line is a gimmick, majority of BYODs don’t work on Sprints CDMA network, and no one ever really pays full price for [premium] phones up front unless they’re getting a J3 or J7 or any low tier phone. These plans are stripped down or over priced and these plans will be taxed and hiked up for people leasing phones. This is a disaster. The merger should definitely happen sooner than later. If you want to get your moneys worth, go to T-Mobile, better plan, better perks, better coverage/service, better all round.
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FWIW, I jumped on the deal for a free year of Sprint (except taxes and fees) to switch from another carrier around Thanksgiving 2017. I switched from AT&T to Sprint. The former wasn't exactly awesome and Sprint isn't really any better (not that I expected to be). It has some downsides, but I'm thrilled with the price I'm paying for my 1st year.
I was paying $4.07/month and now it's gone up to $4.60/month. I'm still very happy with level of service for the price.
But, I also do carry a Verizon phone (for work) and usually another test device on T-Mobile. There are definitely places where VZ doesn't work or where 2 or all 3 carriers don't work well or work at all.
There's a monster thread at https://slickdeals.net/f/10235008-s...-text-data-free-w-eligible-device-sim-req?v=1. My signup process was uhh... rocky and time consuming (long story short). But again, thrilled w/the price.
I'll have to see if I stick around after the year's up, but it doesn't look like any carrier w/LTE that's decent in the US w/visual voicemail is cheap.
Agree that it is annoying that more carriers are ahem... misusing the word "unlimited".
Maybe so, but one always needs to get a phone that supports CDMA networks. On Sprint, I'm using an iPhone 8 A1863, the one w/a Qualcomm modem that supports it. The other version https://everymac.com/systems/apple/iphone/specs/apple-iphone-8-att-t-mobile-global-a1905-specs.html with an Intel modem from https://everyi.com/by-identifier/ipod-iphone-ipad-specs-by-model-identifier.html won't work.
I bought it thru a Target Black Friday deal. They were handing out A1863 regardless of what carrier you were on. I used it for a few days on AT&T before paying it off in full, getting it unlocked and switching it to Sprint.
The wackiest part about Sprint though is that unlike virtually every other carrier where a SIM will just work in your (unlocked) phone given that it's the right size and the phone supports the right set of frequencies, you need the correct SIM SKU for your model!
https://www.androidpolice.com/2015/...when-activating-an-unlocked-device-on-sprint/
Madness! Luckily, I was able to get the right SKU of SIM (SIMGLW416Q) for my phone for free from a local Apple store instead of waiting for Sprint to send me one.
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So does a bit change size or cause undue stress on a mobile network when it's used on a computer instead of a mobile phone? I've never understood the limits/restrictions on tethering. It's my bucket of 1's and 0's, why do they get show prejudice against data utilized via tethering?
That's why, on metered plans, you can use your bits wherever. The fact of the matter is that there have to be some restrictions on Unlimited data, as computers can use up a lot more of those otherwise identical bits a lot more quickly than a phone can.
It's 500mb of hotspot data, which they don't even have to include at all even in an unlimited data plan. For the phone, the data is still unlimited.
Well let's be technically precise about this matter as you suggest.
The plan is indeed UNLIMITED, but, the plan is definitely not UNMETERED.
case closed.