Sprint’s offer to reduce your bill does the same to data speed

December 4, 2014

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On Tuesday, Sprint announced a very aggressive approach to bring in new customers from Verizon and AT&T. The carrier said it would reduce bills by half of what the competition charges. It seemed like quite the deal. Why? Sprint will pay a customer's early termination fee, give unlimited talk and text, and keep the data allowance at half the cost. The problem is that the carrier states within its press release that data speeds are going to be altered due to the influx of users on the network. Sprint is ensuring the network strength is as good as possible by not allowing data hogs to ruin it for everyone else.

In actuality, this promotion from Sprint is expected to save roughly 20% rather than fulfilling its purpose of slashing a bill in half.

Source: Ars Technica

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1 comment

richard says:

December 4, 2014 at 4:32 PM

Lol as a 15 year sprint customer, if they lowered data speeds you would be like a 300 baud modem

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