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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.