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Sprint CEO Hints at Price Hikes Ahead of iPhone 7 (cnet.com)
An anonymous reader shares a CNET report: If you're considering jumping ship to Sprint to take advantage of its "half-off" promotion, don't dawdle. The promotion, which promises to cut your existing rate plan at a competing carrier in half, has been a hit with consumers. The nation's fourth-largest wireless carrier said it added 173,000 post-paid customers, or folks who pay at the end of each month, in its fiscal first quarter that ended June 30. That figure marks a reversal from a loss of 12,000 customers a year ago. But the half-off promotion isn't sticking around forever, according to Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure, who hinted at price increases later this summer. "You can expect us to come up with a new set of rate plans before the next iPhone," Claure said Monday on a call with journalists. New iPhone typically arrive in mid-September.
I don't really want a new one.
Slashdot is iPhone news central. Seriously, what nerd carried a friggin' iPhone around???
Promotions come and go all the time.
I would be all over Sprint's promotion if only I could use their service to make phone calls.....
For all of the users that switched to Sprint to have their bill cut in half, wait until the fine print (price increase) kicks in. hahahahahahaha stupid consumers.
Janet Yellen told me that inflation was so low that interest rates might go negative, BUT
- my ISP rates keep going up,
- my grocery bill is putting me on a diet,
- my health insurance is off the charts,
- my rent to damn high,
- and now they want to raise my phone rates again!
Don't get me started about my student loan.
The ONLY thing cheap is gasoline so,
I'm gonna fill up the pickup and drive over to talk with Ms Yellen about arithmetic and how to balance my checkbook.
It might be cheaper than a phone call.
and, lord knows, she must have some really high powered math secrets that they never taught me in school.
You know those commercials that sometimes come on local stations late at night for "Consumers Cellular"? The ads sell it like a cell phone provider for old people, since they always have sixty-somethings being hip with their no-contract cell phones and buying slutty red dresses to see if they can interest their hubbies in one more roll in the clover.
What you may not know, is that Consumer Cellular is actually a really good provider. You pay as you go, you can use practically any smartphone, including the iStatus from Apple. They mail you out a sim card and away you go. Data, calls, texts, it's cheap as shit. If you pay attention to what you're doing and know your way around, you can even avoid giving them real information, so it's the anonymity of a burner phone and the convenience of a major provider. And no contracts.
My wife has some Cadillac plan from one of the big providers, but when my contract was up with AT&T but my phone was still good, I figured, "What the hell?" and tried Consumers Cellular. It works great, has coverage wherever the other companies have coverage and AT&T can just suck my dick.
You are welcome on my lawn.
$80 phone, $40 a month, cash.
No contracts, no useful data, no privacy concerns, and you don't care if the phone breaks.
Getting a pimp phone on a contract is like being married or getting a puppy. Who has time?
I was originally a Cingular (later became AT&T) customer.
By the time I wanted a smart phone, AT&T was not offering unlimited data plans.
I switched to Sprint because they do offer an unlimited data plan.
Honestly, considering my data usage, I probably paid more than I would have with another carrier.
I don't really care though. For the extra $10 (or whatever), the peace of mind that goes with unlimited is fantastic.
You've decided to move some consumers around by blowing the financial wind in the appropriate direction that their little desire-to-save-money sails will push them into your harbour?
Requiem for the American Dream
its a bit salty, i mean seamen
you ment seamen... right? RIGHT?????????