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Sprint Drops Two-Year Contracts

Posted by Soulskill on from the promises-to-find-other-ways-to-fool-you-into-thinking-they're-cheap dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Following the recent news that Verizon has ended smartphone subsidies, now Sprint has announced it is ending two-year contracts as well. This leaves AT&T as the last of the major carriers to offer such a plan. Most consumers will now have to get used to paying full price for their phones, though Sprint is also running a phone-leasing plan that lets people pay an additional $22/month for an 16GB iPhone, with yearly upgrades.

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  1. Why do this? by Harlequin80 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I must be missing something, but why do this? Offer monthly BYO plans and offer 2 year subsidised phone plans. These are two different market segments and I would have thought locking someone in on a 2 year contract would have been a good thing.

    1. Re:Why do this? by jellomizer · · Score: 4, Interesting

      There has been too many competitors offering to pay out the contract in order to switch to their plan.
      So what happened is that they lose customers in the long run. As people switch plans to adjust to what they want.

      Getting rid of the contract will allow people to change their plans in the same company, vs losing a customer.

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