Sprint Any Mobile, unlimited calling to all mobile numbers, coming tomorrow? 73
Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:24 pm EDT
Sprint Premier customers are getting a teaser email from Overland Park, Kansas. Sprint is saying that tomorrow they will “serve up something big.” While there’s no hint of what that may be, the chaps over at Gizmodo claim to be in the know: they say that Sprint will be introducing a new calling feature named ‘Sprint Any Mobile.’
The vast majority of Sprint customers have a plan that includes unlimited Sprint-to-Sprint calling. What Sprint Any Mobile is predicted to do is change that equation to unlimited mobile-to-mobile. As in your Sprint phone to any other mobile phone, on any carrier, at any time, for however long you like. Considering how many people are using their cell phones as their primary phones, this amounts to veritable unlimited calling.
So the question is: will this be an optional plan add-on, or will it replace the current Sprint-to-Sprint arrangement in some - or all - of their plans? Hopefully tomorrow we’ll find out.
Full text of the email after the break.
UPDATE: An anonymous source has confirmed for us that Sprint Any Mobile Any Time will be launching tomorrow morning, and as described above will allow for unlimited mobile-to-mobile calling, regardless of carrier. Any Mobile Any Time will only be added to the Everything Data and select business plans, so all Palm Pre owners will be set with unlimited mobile-to-mobile. Oh, and it will be a free upgrade to your plan!
We're about to serve up something big.
And you'll be among the first to know.
As a Sprint Premier customer, we want you to be among the first of our loyal customers to know about some exciting news coming soon.
In the past, we've brought you Simply Everything (SM), Right Plan Promise and ReadyNow. Sprint is ready to change the game once again.
So look for the big announcement in your Sprint Connection newsletter tomorrow morning and take your place in the wireless revolution.
You can also find out more tomorrow by simply logging onto My Sprint.
And be sure to checkout the "Sprint Premier account alerts" at the top of the page
Thanks to fraz in our forums for the transcription!
73 Comments
I don't think there's no way they'd do this without an extra add-on. As you said, that'd make it unlimited calling for most people. If it's $5-10 though, I'm in. That'd give me in effect unlimited calling for $60 (25% corp. discount - discount doesn't count against Premiere).
But, I'd settle for no longer paying to conditionally forward, so that I could put my Google Voice account to good use.
Haha, yeah, I totally restructured that sentence from how I originally wrote it, and must've missed a word. Thanks... though now I can't edit away my stupidity.
Sprint already has a (hidden) Pick 5 option.
I was out of contract at the time, and all I did was mention that I heard that there was a pick 5 option and they asked me for the numbers and added it to my plan.
I know it's really a pick 3 and then an additional pick 2 separately (all were free for me).
If you google sprint pick 5 then you should be able to find a ton of sites with information on it.
I hope this rumor is true, and the only way to really revolutionize the market is to change all current plans to this new way of doing business
Definitely jumping on this if it proves to be unlimited everything.
this is a good point, but then you can say to them. "Well switch to sprint" and isn't this what sprint wants? To attract new customers? This would do it, thats for sure.
I guess they'll just have to switch to Sprint (and get a webOS phone while they're at it).
ive never hit my 450 anytime minutes. lol
why cant they just give us a 911 plan and unlimited texting. i hate talking on the phone it is so last century.
you can always dial 911 from any cell phone even if not activated as long as the battery is still alive and it is a working phone :)
I used 1000 minutes last month.
I am impressed by your ability to talk for 134 hours a day.
impossible there are 10080 in one week!
Sarcasm...
you guys really have no clue....lets just same I'm in the know about this new feature and its a win win literally no catch deal for sprint customers both new and existing. unfortunately u guys must wait for tomorrow for the details though..
This will replace mobile to mobile on Data Packages and will be actie at end of your bill cycle.
I doubt it is unlimited minutes for mobile to mobile for free. It would almost eliminate the need for their simply everything plan unless you happen to call landlines a lot. It should be interesting to see what happens.
Just got done talking to sprint rep. and they said that it will be included in your plan starting on the next pay cycle so thats good news.
Jelly beans!!!
My guess is the Pick 3/5 option for everyone. I already have Pick 3 on my account, but it isn't something you can sign up for. In the past, it's a service only retentions can put on.
Why wouldn't they do this. Look at the details of their Boost Mobile plans. And I really do think this is huge if true. Screw Pick 3/5. That is plane stupid, we still have Anytime minutes for that. Sprint is redefining Mobile, and they really have to.
Give them to me, I'll take them
ATT's A list is about to look downright foolish...
Many of the people I know use a wireless company called I wireless. Depending on what they choose each month (prepaid) they can get unlimited local calling or unlimited nationwide calling. If Sprint had unlimited mobile to mobile to any carrier, that would mean I could talk to those customers a lot more. Another majority of people I know use uscellular. They get unlimited incoming, so I could call them without using anyone's minutes.
My guess is that this will ONLY apply to the first line (the true Premier line) just like the yearly upgrades do.
boost and metro dont have the towers or infastructure Sprint has...although sprint has shed alot ofthem. Would $50 unlimited make them a tier 1 carrier or send them straight to the MNVO pile?
My palm pre rebate took right at 6-7 weeks. You definitely won't get it within 30 days from date of purchase.
Sprint is trying to get people off of the SERO plans. This is what this plan is about.
Sprint Any Mobile Anytime webpage is live. anymobile.sprint.com
Does anyone else see this as a way to discourage services like Google Voice? Think about it -- if other carriers follow suit, suddenly calls to mobile numbers are unlimited and calls to GV numbers count against minutes.
Or the way Google Voice currently works on phones like the Pre -- you receive a call (against minutes) calling someone's mobile using the Google Voice apps. Call someone's mobile directly, now that call doesn't count against minutes.
Just a thought...
http://anymobileanytime.sprint.com/index.php?ECID=MA:AB:20090910:FRE:BUB...
SWEET!
I am/have been on the 450 Everything Data Plan since getting the Pre. I also get a 25% discount with my employer.
As with many others, this gives me a virtually unlimited plan for only $52.50 +tax. Very happy to be with Sprint since 2000.
I think this has the most appeal yet to draw subscribers in the smart-phone/data plans arena. This may also encourage and provide incentive for more current subscribers to upgrade to a data phone... such as the new Pixi or existing Pre.
I think Sprint is doing a good job at generating buzz and providing the needed perks to start rebuilding it's network. Now they just need to make sure they don't end up with the AT&T overloaded/slow network issue
Go Go Sprint!
ITS TRUE,ITS TRUE!!! I just checked my account online and i have the unlimited mobile for any network!!!!
*******f you have an Everything Data plan, you just hit the jackpot - now you can make unlimited nationwide calls to any mobile, anytime.*******
*******http://anymobile.sprint.com/********
I can see that for some people "roamers", if you will, need to stay with their 99.99 everthing unlimited plans.
For the majority of users though there isn't a roaming issue. Obviously the plan does not beat the prepaid $50 dollar plans that the article mentions, but those plans don't offer the same level of phones.
The line about the majority of minutes/data/usage has to be on Sprint's network has always been there to my knowledge. I also doubt they are just going to terminate an account without even a warning/advisement for the "offender" to change their plan.
Take it or Leave it, but I am overjoyed that I no longer have to watch every minute I use during "anytime" hours provided I am calling a cell number!
Go Sprint! Go!
I'm ignorantly going out on a limb. I reckon the costs are not what they are made out to be. They are minimal, your monthly plan shoots profit hoops, simple as that. They could offer more for the same money and still make heaps.
I have always had the Unlimited everything plan. So what does this mean for me? Before this " BIG CHANGE" in plans, was I being charged to call others on other networks? If So I never notice. So Im not seeing what all the big who-ha is for. Unlimited means unlimited and I think Everything plan holders have been marveled by this already. No?