Sprint’s ‘Fair & Flexible’ Becoming Unfair & Inflexible?
If you’re a Sprint customer and you’re happy with its “Fair & Flexible” plans that give you a nice break on overage minutes, just hang onto your plan.
It’s reported that later this month, Sprint will be dropping “Fair & Flexible” in favor of a new set of “Power Pack” calling plans that will pretty closely track offerings from Verizon Wireless and Cingular Wireless.
But if you’re a current ‘Fair & Flexible’ customer you’ll get to hang onto your plan as long as you don’t do anything to trigger a change in your contract status, such as buying a new handset or changing to a different calling plan.
Sprint spent big bucks promoting the advantage of reasonably-priced minutes for customers who go over their allotted minutes. But Sprint claims fewer than 1 in 5 of its Fair & Flexible customers actually go over the limit. Sprint will keep one advantage: Night & Weekend Minutes starting at 7PM instead of 9PM. (For an extra $5 a month, Sprint will offer 6PM N&W access.)
As Sprint drops ’Fair & Flexible’, carriers like Cingular (with ‘Rollover Minutes’) and T-Mobile (with ‘My Faves’) would seem to have a distinct advantage in the realm of airtime gimmicks.
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[via Phone News]
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