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wow

coziamnumber1

Sep 4, 2007, 8:28 AM
sprint has been doing this for years

sprint basic 200, 200 day minutes and UNLIMITED n/w minutes for $29.99/month

and our family plan has them beat as well.
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wfine81

Sep 4, 2007, 8:28 AM
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shafteddrummer

Sep 4, 2007, 9:36 AM
You would think that they would at least TRY to be a little more cutting edge and make the plan closer to 19.99 or 24.99 with 100 daytime and 500 night and weekend minutes.
Most of the older people I know still wouldn't come close to that.
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mottelerj

Sep 4, 2007, 10:16 AM
i am a verizon fan, but i shake my head at this! i am very disappointed. ☚ī¸
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jinx7676

Sep 4, 2007, 8:43 PM
they might as well s#!t in a bucket and call it an emergency plan. they missed april fools day with this joke.
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SystemShock

Sep 4, 2007, 9:21 PM
jinx7676 said:
they might as well s#!t in a bucket and call it an emergency plan. they missed april fools day with this joke.

Of course you'd say that...your profile says you're a Cingular employee.
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jinx7676

Sep 5, 2007, 8:15 AM
SystemShock said:
jinx7676 said:
they might as well s#!t in a bucket and call it an emergency plan. they missed april fools day with this joke.

Of course you'd say that...your profile says you're a Cingular employee.


that has nothing to do with it. the plan sucks. period. i didn't mention my preferred carrier because i didn't want to turn this into a "fanboy" war. i was just stating my opinion.
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SystemShock

Sep 5, 2007, 9:00 AM
jinx7676 said:
SystemShock said:
jinx7676 said:
they might as well s#!t in a bucket and call it an emergency plan. they missed april fools day with this joke.

Of course you'd say that...your profile says you're a Cingular employee.


that has nothing to do with it. the plan sucks. period. i didn't mention my preferred carrier because i didn't want to turn this into a "fanboy" war. i was just stating my opinion.

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elgee02

Sep 5, 2007, 3:31 AM
Why, are you 65 or older?

If not, why would you care?
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OtherSprintGuy

Sep 4, 2007, 10:18 AM
Here we go.....way to go VZW for being...oh, I dunno.WAY BEHIND THE TIMES!!! Sprint has had a plan like this for ATLEAST 2yrs. with unlimited N&W minutes...your plans suck, your data plans REALLY suck...I will say that you guys have some cool phones...to bad the average joe has to drop like a $1,000dep just to get one..and then pay you $80+ a month to use it...you guys are killin me....
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jjgreene

Sep 4, 2007, 10:25 AM
someone sounds a little jealous of verizon....

from the at&t fan boy...

we've had those plans for the past two months as well, but we didn't need to announce it to the whole world....


oh ad coolest phone edge goes to at&t...

and HSUPA and HSPA will be far better in the long scheme of thins than wimax will ever be(just had to give you a gut check...lol)
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lalolanda

Sep 4, 2007, 2:16 PM
jjgreene said:
someone sounds a little jealous of verizon....

from the at&t fan boy...

we've had those plans for the past two months as well, but we didn't need to announce it to the whole world....


oh ad coolest phone edge goes to at&t...

and HSUPA and HSPA will be far better in the long scheme of thins than wimax will ever be(just had to give you a gut check...lol)



i guess that HSUPA and HSPA will be better than wimax when it starts to work, i guess when that starts, sprint will have something better than wimax... lol you are just talking about future plans, but sprint is already making it reality
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monkeyracer

Sep 5, 2007, 1:53 PM
seriously were you both dropped on your heads?

HSPA's theoretical speed is up to 8 - 10 Mbits, with real world capabilities UP TO 3.6

WiMax's theoretical speed is up to 76 mbps, with real world speeds averaging 15 or more mbps.

WiMax will be deployed in 98% of the population by 2009, and hspa is looking at that coverage by 2011.

Seems that everything is leaning towards wimax technology leading the way here.

Sprint has this working NOW in two test markets, and will have 50% of the population covered in less than 15 months.

Not a "fan boy" post, just a few facts...
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jjgreene

Sep 19, 2007, 9:24 AM
um HSPA's tech has the capabilities of 28 down and 11 up......

whose to say that it wont actually reach that since i get speeds of 3.2, 3.3, 3.1 all the time with the HSDPA that is currently deployed.
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jjgreene

Sep 19, 2007, 9:31 AM
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denzillion

Sep 4, 2007, 2:18 PM
yet....Verizon still have tons more customers than Sprint ...hmmmm I wonder why. đŸ¤Ŗ
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lufrebent

Sep 4, 2007, 10:25 AM
T-Mobile has one similar too.

300 mins, unlimited weekends - $29.99
Family Plan, 1000 mins - $49.99
or
700 mins, unlimited n/w, M2m - $59.99

I still don't understand why anyone likes Verizon......
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Jayshmay

Sep 4, 2007, 12:40 PM
The biggest thing that stood out to me with the Verizon plan was the lack of Unlimited N&W, I mean, that is so, so, so standard, now a days, a lot of people use they're phones on the weekends to communicate with family and save on long distance charges that come on a land line.

Personally I don't have a land line, I was jut saying some people do.
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sangyup81

Sep 4, 2007, 1:48 PM
If it matters so much for them, they can pay $5 more a month and get the America's Choice 300 minute plan with Unlimited Nights and Weekends
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cellphoneslinger

Sep 4, 2007, 1:58 PM
OR they can just go to SPRINT and its INCLUDED!!!!!!!
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sangyup81

Sep 4, 2007, 2:02 PM
i hope you know that customers don't shop carriers based on plans anymore
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denzillion

Sep 4, 2007, 2:20 PM
You hit the nail in the head with that one..
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Dre

Sep 4, 2007, 4:17 PM
well, actually .. we're talking about the older folks here, not the 14 year old girls who go ZOMGSIDEKICKIIIFTW!!!

these are the people who will actually care about the plan and how much theyre paying for a service theyre not even using all of the time

on that note, both tmo and especially sprint kick the crap out of verizon

oh yeah .. so do most pay-as-you-go plans

tmo prepaid ftw
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sangyup81

Sep 4, 2007, 6:47 PM
and then there are some that actually care about the phone working in an emergency

nice try
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xjittianx

Sep 4, 2007, 3:44 PM
...as well as 100 minutes with m2m for 19.99

it does seem though verizon is lacking that unlimited feature. it is pretty standard to atleast have unlimited m2m or night or weekends.
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jpeazy

Sep 4, 2007, 6:50 PM
Unlimited InNetwork calling is included...
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elgee02

Sep 5, 2007, 3:37 AM
Oh gee I dunno... maybe cause unlike T-Mobile you actually get service when you leave a major city or God forbid, drive more than 100 yards off the interstate?

Or another "theory"... the largest selection of 3G phones... but wait, you're a T-Mobile fanboy, you wouldn't know what 3G is đŸ¤Ŗ
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lufrebent

Sep 5, 2007, 9:43 AM
I wouldn't exactly call myself a fan boy, I was just pointing out another option...although good hit on the 3G...one of these days...?
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MidnightDT

Sep 5, 2007, 1:39 AM
the verizon wireless plan includes unlimited IN calling and unlimited long distance which is not mentioned on the phonescoop article but it on the verizon news posting.

plus this plan is free of the BS sprint network and terrible customer service.
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