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Sprint's New Unlimited Plan Adds HD Streaming, Four Lines For $90 (zdnet.com)
Take that, Verizon! Sprint's unlimited data plan now has HD video too. From a report: On February 16, Sprint upped its unlimited plan, launching the "best unlimited HD plan ever", according to its press release. The new plan matches Verizon Wireless' new unlimited plan by offering unlimited calls, text, data, HD video streaming, and 10 GB of mobile hotspot for $22.50 per line, for four lines. That equates to $90 per month for four lines, or half of what Verizon Wireless is charging. Sprint's plan requires the account owner to enable AutoPay, ensuring the bill is paid on time each month. For those who don't need four lines, the first line will set you back $50 per month, two lines of service will bump it $90 per month.
Thanks TMobile and Sprint for keeping the majors in line :)
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WTF is going on! That's borderline unAmerican.
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Still not bad pricing for a year. Was just looking into switching away, this adds more weight to staying. Hope they improve their network soon, otherwise it won't be a price-based decision.
2 lines and 4 lines cost the same? or do need to buy new 4 phones to get that price?
...if you can't get to it? Sprint's coverage is crap compared to Verizon's.
Sprint uses CDMA. No thank you. I like being able to buy my own Phones. GSM or GTFO.
Unfortunately it's still on Sprint's CRAPPY network. What good is having all that unlimited bandwidth when you can't use it. The city I live in (a suburb of Los Angeles) the service is so terrible I couldn't even make a call. And the funny thing is they have a Sprint store there (where they have one of those mobile hot spots, so your phone works inside the store, but walk 50 feet down the street and you're met with reality.
I don't see this option on Verizon's site at all. They're still pushing 45/line/mo for each of four lines.. $180/mo is very different to $90/mo.
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Next you'll be asking how to dial one of the phones since they no longer have a dial.
Language evolves, it's pretty neat!
T-MOBILE offered me a great price and then tacked on undisclosed fees they try to pass off as taxes.
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Was the sprint part of the network.
Service got much better when I forced my phone over to the T-Mobile side of the network.
What is the point of this faux-pedantry?
Are you looking for people to stroke your ego because you seem to think "ha, they didn't use the EXACT terminology that I would have used, thus rendering it completely wrong!" or something? If you really didn't understand what they were talking about, you could have googled it and found the answer you sought. However, I strongly doubt that is the case, and instead am led to believe that you just want slashdot points for being an internet old man.
Almost as bad as the ads I get from Charter Cable: "Get phone, TV, and internet for $30 each!"
So I call and say I don't want phone. Could I get internet and TV for $60?
Sorry, no, the internet and TV double pack is $80, or $40 apiece.
For that price I don't want the TV, either. How about internet for $40?
Nope, sorry, if you just want internet, that's $60. No matter that's twice the advertised rate.
I get the cost benefits of bundling services, but the pricing scheme is ridiculous.
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Now if they could actually get a usable signal into my house.... Come on guys, I live in the suburbs of a major city where we have houses packed in like cord wood. You really should have excellent coverage here...
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The pricing is great. But It's Sprint (and I bet half the people who saw the OP said the same thing).
I had Project Fi for a while and loved having T-Mobile and Sprint networks, but I could tell instantly which network was active. There was a HUGE difference. And it wasn't because Sprint was better. Now I get service from TMO directly because their rate plans beat Project Fi by a mile and I don't need Sprint.
All of this is weird for me because I WAS a happy Sprint user for years. Had a voice line, smartphone (Palm Pre IIRC) and a USB data modem and it all worked beautifully. But that was on their CDMA network before the iPhone launched on Sprint. The DAY that product went live, the CDMA performance began to tank. WiMAX never worked worth a shit. Recall one afternoon in a parking lot about 1000 feet from one of their WiMAX towers and the mere act of rolling up my car window killed the signal. WiMAX was a disaster. Their LTE network came on line and it sucked too. I went to Verizon at that point and it was fine, of course.
But having gone from Verizon to Fi, I got to see how Sprint LTE had progressed and the answer is, hardly at all. It was still crap.
T-Mobile is working great. I'm not leaving. Not even if Sprint was free.
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It's amazing how much this country hates normal people that refuse to become breeders. Sprint is screwing us for not having the American-expected hateful two parents and two children. It is hate that drives corporations to screw us like this. Pure hate. Dealing with things like this every day as a nonbreeder just makes me want to die. Everyone that rules our lives hates us.
Nobody hates you for not having kids. You must be from the shallow end of the gene pool with an attitude like that. However, Please keep genes out of the pool going forward if you don't mind...
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Care to enlighten me what would the correct query be?
:wq
That totally works when I host the HD video on my home server, right?
UMTS (and HSPDA and HSPA+) is based on wideband CDMA. That's right, CDMA won the CDMA vs GSM war. GSM ended up licensing CDMA from Qualcomm and adding it to the GSM spec for 3G data.
In fact, 4G LTE service probably wouldn't have been possible without CDMA. Most LTE implementations use OFDMA - the tower tells the phones apart by assigning them orthogonal frequencies. All phones can transmit at the same time, the tower tells them apart because each phone generates orthogonal frequencies (i.e. the same frequency combination cannot be produced by another phone). CDMA tells phones apart by assigning them orthogonal codes. So CDMA was the proof of concept needed to show that this "everyone transmits at the same time" hocus pocus actually worked when scaled up to a nation-wide cellular network.
Without CDMA, your GSM data speeds would top out at about 150 kbps.
Unlimited data is impossible. Stop being a fuck-twit.
I tried Sprint once and got burned. Never again. I don't care how cheap they are.
Dealing with things like this every day as a nonbreeder just makes me want to die. Everyone that rules our lives hates us.
Go ahead and die, no one will miss you.
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I don't think that all. I appreciate your not taking up space into the future, more space for my twelve kids and their broods... :-)
Only I can judge you.
>"Sprint's plan requires the account owner to enable AutoPay, ensuring the bill is paid on time each month"
Yep, and the other carriers are doing this too. And it is WRONG. They are all slipping this anti-consumer crap into their plans. How about not trying to force this type of s*** down our throats and punish people who actually SHOW they are irresponsible by penalizing JUST THOSE PEOPLE instead of everyone?
Are you with a long term partner and don't have kids?
If not then stfu because I am and I get shit all the time including from strangers about why I'm so selfish and horrible for not having children.
You're an ignorant ass.
I am? For agreeing that you should do what you want to you call me names? LOL, the old "I'm rubber and you are glue" saying comes to mind here. PLEASE don't have kids.... Thanks!
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