Fair and Flexible Plan
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F&F is great for people who don't use a great deal of minutes, but that's about it.
now roaming. with fair and flexible when you go off of sprint network and enter into roam yes your mins will adjust for you.
one thing i will warn you about. a lot of people in this forum are third party vendors and telephone customer service reps they will try to tell you some nonsense about only being able to use half your mins in roam. I would never even mention this but i know one of them in there limited understanding of the roaming would bring it up.
if you use over half your total mins in roaming for 3 consecutive months the roaming feature would be remove...
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Actually Steve, Pimp knows Sprint better than YOU know Sprint...and guess what? He's not lying. He's telling the truth. Stop felching your cat and confusing potential customers.
you will have to forgive phonepimp he works for a competitor and so he is fooled by there propaganda.
he was correct that digital features will not work in analog. cingulars digital network and verizons digital network is slightly larger then sprints.
how ever he was wrong in the fact of all digital networks. in terms of all digital networks there are very few out there of the major wireless players there is t-mobile and there is sprint. there other carriers ether have a tdma network or an amps network.
the second thing he was incorrect on was sprints analog roam. yes sprint does use analog roam. however pimp made it sound like with other carriers you would get a digital signal where on sprint you would be getting a pure analog signal. this is very incorrect....
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Secondly, If you look at Sprint's own native digital coverage, it is CONSIDERABLY smaller than most other national carriers. Granted you have a great number of roaming agreements, but even so your coverage is smaller combined than most major players. So there ARE many places where you would have analog, and a GSM user would be digital. Simply look at Sprint's off network analog roaming depicted on the website, and compare it to any major player.
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as i mentioned in a previous post some time you should actually walk into a sprint store ask them for a digital roaming map and actually look. it is a new thing (just intorduced these last three months) it is a really good map.
and don't misunderstand me i am not claiming sprint has the largest network. i know cingular and verizon both have larger networks (land coverage wise) how ever total towers nation wide verizon has only 45 more then sprint.... hmmm can you hear me now?
sprint as a smart economic move has built it's network to...
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Why go into the SPrint store? I have current maps for all the carriers right at work.
You are missing my point entirely. The original question was about Fair and Flexible:
All Fair and Flexible is is a plan designed for low end users who worry they might go over their minutes. You get 300 minutes for $35.00. They then "adjust your plan" by packaging overage into small chunks and reducing the per minute price of that overage.
M2M is not nationwide, $35 is pretty high for 300 minutes, and the coverage is not all that. SPrint focuses development of its native coverage in a roadrunner array, following major highways and MTA's. Get outside those areas into the burbs and Sprint often suffers.
Other carriers offer much better ...
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you also mentioned coverage again. you said "How many customers want an emergency phone?" all of them obviously. if they get a dual band phone threw sprint they will have the largest voice foot print of any other carrier. and yest it may be on another carriers network. i have no idea where you live but i live in the midwest and out hear there are a lot of arias where you can...
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Again, you are delusional on your understanding of rollover minutes, but that doesn't surprise me, since you obviously haven't got the acumen to actually do your own thinking. Rollover minutes BEGIN to 'roll off' after a year, one month at time, but are replaced by the rollover minutes generated in the month they roll off. January 2003's minutes roll off in January 2004, but are replaced by the rollover minutes Generated in January 2004.
If you are in my mom's bedroom, get out now! She died almost 15 years ago, so the house is under new ownership. Fact is ash, you're trying to bash something you don't have the facts on. Namecallin...
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I think you misunderstand fair and flexible as most of us do without an explanation.
Fair and flexible is designed for a specific segment of the wireless market. It is not the end all plan. If it were then the other plans would not be offered anymore.
It is designed for those whose wireless usage is often minimal, but occasionally goes higher. We'll call them the "spike" customer. To understand it as Sprint does one must look at wireless spending from an annualized position. Sprint estimates that "Spike" customers will save about $100-$200 per year with fair and flexible.
Unlike rollover minutes it does not force someone to buy a plan that has more minutes than the customer needs in order to build up a base of rollover minutes fo...
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Do the math and see where they are truly better off. Sprint F&F is 35.00 for 300 minutes. That's 11.6 cents per minute.
Cingular's Nation GSM gives you 450 minutes with rollover for 39.99. That is 8.8 cents per minute.
Plus they get an all digital network, don't have to pay an additional 5 bucks for no roaming and all of their features and services work network wide, even when roaming. Our Native coverage dwarfs yours. Where do you have us beat, even for your low minute users? We still offer better value.
you have also mentioned cingulars network and the nonroaming aspect. why is it that every month i get cutomers switching to sprint because they had over 1000 mins of roaming on there cingular phone where roaming is suposed to be included??? another huge down side to cingulars network is you can only use it. that is all. and as we know no network is 100% they all have there crapy arias.
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Where in the heck do you people get the idea you can only use Cingular's network. Ever hear of our roaming partners, like AWE and T-Mobile.
We will be the largest carrier in the country in network size by year's end. Over 400,000 POPs. Thats almost double VZW, buddy.
Why do you get people switching. Most likely Region plans, which DO have roaming outside the region, as do ALL Regional plans.
Look at F&F for a minute and use your head. If they don't want to pay for something they aren't going to use, whats to stop them from going to a non rollover plan? We still kick your butt. 250 minutes with no rollover for 29.99, Nationwide no roaming. No extra 5 bucks for access to the roaming partners. So here it is. They can spend an ex...
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like quest and alamosa and airgate pcs just to name a few
$20 more dollars, thats it! Not .40 cents a minute $2.50 for every extra 25 minutes.
So lets do the math
Cingular $40 plan 450 M + $22.50 in overage
$62.50 for 500 minutes used
Sprint $35 plan 300 M + $20 in overage
$55.00 for 500 minutes used
But the beauty is that you can still add an ...
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Not to mention, our 29.99 Nation plan is more than competitive with theirs, and has no rollover. 250 minutes, no roaming, no long distance charges, and 1000 N&W minutes
Compared to: 35.00 for 300 minutes, 5.00 extra to roam off network, no long distance charges
Now look at the fact that digital features do not work on analog, so all their fun Vision stuff, email, games, etc. no longer work. On Cingular, its ALL digital, so everything works, not just on OUR network, but when roaming as well. The only product this is not true of is Voice Connect, which is only functional on our network.
Not looking like such a good...
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That equals 9 dollars more that you pay for those 300 minutes than you would with us. Every month. Regardless of overage. That's 216.00 over the course of a two year contract that the Sprint customer is spending over a better plan with Cingular. No wonder you can drop overage charges lower... you're building in your own cost recovery!even if you deduct the cost difference between the two plans @4.99 a month, thats still a loss for the Sprint customer of $97.
Combat the ...
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Without breaking down the base plan, what is the overage gonna cost the consumer.
BTW if you think EVERY customer that walks in to buy a phone, that has never had one before, knows EXACTLY how many minutes they will use. Then you are either a fool or you have got the easiest job on earth!
I never said the customer WOULD know. But I do believe that with proper fact-finding, and taking an interest in the customer, you can help them determine that, and then adjust for exceptions so they have a plan that meets their needs without breaking them.
That is a lot easier to do with rollover, since after the first month, they have a cushion against overage that builds. Another advantage of rollover minutes is that they can adjust down in rate plan to use them up, and save money at the same time. An advantage F&F doesn't have.
It is designed for a particular user. Some people are limited in their thinking to traditional wireless sales strategies. F&F is designed with a user's annual spending in mind. It takes some retraining to think in terms of annual expense rather than the monthly expense. You take people whose lifestyle only occasionally includes a wireless phone but have some months where they depend on their phone. (Arizona snowbirds) Mostly they are under 300 minutes but during November to March they use about 600 minutes per month. Suddenly F&F makes way more sense than rollover and with the America Attachment their coverage without roaming charges dwarfs Cingular's.
F&F is a...
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"i know cingular and verizon both have larger networks (land coverage wise) how ever total towers nation wide verizon has only 45 more then sprint.... hmmm can you hear me now?"
That's complete fiction. The VZW network is spread on just over 30,000 cell towers. The competitor with the next highest amount is AT&T with I believe (not positive here) approximately 22,000. Cingular is third.
You guys have a long way to go "from the ground up".
Later.
was it
a) Fair and Flexible America Automatically adjusts even if you are in roaming.?
b) Sprint will roam on any cdma network?
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c) you really don't have to worry about using over half your mins in roam?
if i was wrong on any one of those points i would like to know that way i am not spreading miss information.