I feel like I just took a healthy dump.
Sprint has had me by the short hairs for almost 8 years. Two-year contract after two-year contract, and false promises and rising prices, whilst the service remains mediocre. For years 4G was "coming soon". I couldn't even get it in my home, and when I did get it the switchover sometimes dropped my phone calls. They refused to work on my Epic 4G because it was rooted (at the time there was no rule against it). They started me on an "Unlimited Everything" for $99.00 which became almost $125/mo within a year (raising fees for smartphones, data in excess of 5GB/mo, service charges, etc). When it came time to upgrade my phone, they offered me nothing for my Galaxy SII so I had to pay $600 for my Galaxy S4. It goes on and on...
But T-Mobile is paying early termination fees of up to $350.00 if you trade in your phone for one of theirs (they have them all, including the S4 and all the iPhones). OR, you can pay the fee and then use your own phone (if it takes a sim) and just start up. This is the route I took.
http://www.t-mobile.com/offer/switch-carriers-no-early-termination-fee.html
My phone retails for almost $600.00 still. So, by paying the ETF and using my own phone, I save the cost of my phone, and only have to pay the ETF of $350. But my new monthly bill is only $50.00/mo instead of $102.75/mo, and I can even use the hotspot! T-Mobile does throttle internet after 500mb on the plan I chose to start, but that is because I really only need to be able to retrieve email and occasionally surf. Also navigation.
T-Mobile will port my existing number, and deal with the annoying Sprint Retention Team.
Sprint has had me by the short hairs for almost 8 years. Two-year contract after two-year contract, and false promises and rising prices, whilst the service remains mediocre. For years 4G was "coming soon". I couldn't even get it in my home, and when I did get it the switchover sometimes dropped my phone calls. They refused to work on my Epic 4G because it was rooted (at the time there was no rule against it). They started me on an "Unlimited Everything" for $99.00 which became almost $125/mo within a year (raising fees for smartphones, data in excess of 5GB/mo, service charges, etc). When it came time to upgrade my phone, they offered me nothing for my Galaxy SII so I had to pay $600 for my Galaxy S4. It goes on and on...
But T-Mobile is paying early termination fees of up to $350.00 if you trade in your phone for one of theirs (they have them all, including the S4 and all the iPhones). OR, you can pay the fee and then use your own phone (if it takes a sim) and just start up. This is the route I took.
http://www.t-mobile.com/offer/switch-carriers-no-early-termination-fee.html
My phone retails for almost $600.00 still. So, by paying the ETF and using my own phone, I save the cost of my phone, and only have to pay the ETF of $350. But my new monthly bill is only $50.00/mo instead of $102.75/mo, and I can even use the hotspot! T-Mobile does throttle internet after 500mb on the plan I chose to start, but that is because I really only need to be able to retrieve email and occasionally surf. Also navigation.
T-Mobile will port my existing number, and deal with the annoying Sprint Retention Team.