Sprint Goes Unlimited
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Sprint has expanded it’s unlimited pilot plans which began in San Francisco. The three new cities taht offer unlimited rate plans now include Minneapolis-St. Paul, Tampa, Fla., and Philadelphia. The grossly overpriced $120 plan offers the customer unlimited voice, text, and data use. $150 a month, adds unlimited data access with a PC card to the previous plan. Their MVNO, Boost Mobile for the credit challenged, as of May 1st started offering similar unlimited plans in Texas and California. Both of these states already have companies like MetroPCS and Leap Wireless offering cheap unlimited rate plans. Sprint plans on expanding the program nationwide based on the success it has in these new markets.
Might be worth noting in the story that Helio, also a Sprint MVNO, offers Unlimited everything for $145 a month. There are lower calling plans available that still offer unlimited data and messaging, but it looks like Sprint’s pricing is in line with what it’s MVNOs are offering.
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The boost marketing I’ve seen around San Diego says. Dropped calls? Drop Cricket. I wouldn’t call Nextel’s network the best one. I don’t know how Cricket’s is in San Diego, but Nextel in San Diego/Tijuana is very crowded. People that use Direct Connect are very used to the long beep that indicates the network was not able to handle their request. Since everyone is used to it and it’s a half duplex conversation they are ok with it.
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I think that all the writers on BGR are using the whole “strikethrough font effect” a little too excessively. It’s funny on occasion and can be served to emphasize a valid point every now and then, but seriously, beyond that it comes off as an attempt to appear witty and pithy — and with all due respect to the great work you do here, you all aren’t quite at the Gizmodo/Engadget level yet.
Just a thought.
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No offense, but when you get your own website and the reputation bg has you can choose how much to use strikethroughs…until then your comments will stay in the ‘who is this guy?’ Territory.
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Dayne,
Perhaps you didn’t read my comment carefully, or maybe you did and chose to read into it what you wish. I am not seeking to “choose” how much strikethrough they use, nor am I trying to dictate any other aspect of this website. I was merely sharing a thought, as my closing statement indicated.
Part of the consequence, both positive and negative, that results when one creates a public forum like this and invites comments is that people will inevitably comment. Some of those comments you might like and other you won’t. Even those you dislike might have value as constructive criticism, as I felt mine did. And, again, I am not critiquing the content on this site and made sure to praise it in that regard. However, many of the postings are replete with spelling and grammatical errors. I think it is worth BGR’s time to improve itself in this area.
As for the “who is this guy” argument you refer to, even the esteemed Engadget is replete with comments by “random guys” criticizing grammer, spelling, etc. Who are you to suggest otherwise?
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Grossly overpriced?
Show me another major carrier that offers everything unlimited… waiting…
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MetroPCS offers unlimited plans starting at $30 and maxing out at $50. http://www.metropcs.com/plans.php
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I said MAJOR carriers. Metro PCS has 3 million customers and they cover some parts in socal, some parts in florida, georgia, michigan and texas. That’s it. Oh and roaming is iffy at best. Sprint doesn’t really compete with Metro PCS on a national scale…
But Sprint is testing an unlimited Boost option for $55 to compete in those areas against Metro PCS.
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This plan isnt on the Nextel iDEN network it’s on the Sprint CDMA network
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Yeah I actually noticed that. It would be the same thing as the metropcs and cricket plans. It doesn’t make sense with the boost line up since they kinda market the whole walkie talkie thing.
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it makes perfect sense since Boost is the prepaid offering from sprint and also sprint is getting rid of Direct Link Nextel by about 2010-2011 and using QChat from Qualcom. Also Sprint does offer free incomming and outgoing calls for $199 per month no data just calls! and it is availabe in all markets
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