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The one-upmanship between mobile providers continues. Just days after T-Mobile announced its “T-Mobile Test Drive” program that lets you try out an iPhone 5s and the associated 4G LTE network free for seven days, Sprint announced a 30-day risk-free trial. You can try out Sprint’s service for a month for free, and the company thinks you’ll like what you get. “We believe customers will be delighted with the Sprint retail experience, our customer service, and the performance of America’s newest network, so we’re guaranteeing it,” said Sprint CEO Dan Hesse in a press release. The trial offer is part of a Sprint campaign to beat the drum about its recent...
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It’s almost as if mobile carriers are throwing money at people to switch carriers these days. The latest overtures are from Sprint, which is offering up to $650 in incentives for those who switch their numbers from a competitor with the Framily Switching Bonus. “For a limited time, new customers who bring their number to Sprint can receive up to $300 in credit for their current phone through Sprint Buyback and a Visa Prepaid Card worth up to $350 to cover switching fees”, reads the announcement. Customers will get a chunk of cash for trading in their current phone right away (and Sprint hopes you’ll maybe snap up a Samsung Galaxy S5 while you’re at it), and after...
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Sprint has killed off its Sprint One Up program just a few months after its debut. One Up offered users an annual upgrade program that included unlimited talk, text, and data for life for $65 per month, as well as the ability to upgrade their smartphones every 12 months instead of every two years. The deal was that customers would pay for their phones in installments over the course of 24 months, and after one year they could give back that phone and put the value towards another. This concept is now common in the industry, as AT&T (Next), T-Mobile (Jump), and Verizon (Edge) all offer early-upgrade smartphone deals. In any case, Sprint is done with that particular experiment and is moving...
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