Wary of T-Mobile, Sprint Hides Fact it Killed 2 Year Contracts So Sprint effectively killed two year contracts last week, but couldn't be bothered to formally tell anybody about it. Employees last week began leaking word the company would be killing two-year contracts as of January 8, unless you're interested in buy a tablet from the company. This news was subsequently confirmed by some additional leaked documents indicating that long-term contracts and device subsidies would be going the way of the dodo.

If you're looking to upgrade your phone at Sprint, you now need to sign up for either Sprint Lease or Sprint Easy Pay , which let you pay off the cost of your new phone in installments. Curiously though, Sprint has yet to make a peep about the major change, either via the company's PR newsroom or via representative or executive comment to any media outlet. Back in August, Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure had hinted that the company would be ditching contracts and subsidies by the end of the year, but hasn't mentioned the possibility since. Why the radio silence on such a major initiative? Sprint knows it's belatedly following T-Mobile's 2013 decision to do away with subsidies and long-term contracts, and doesn't want to give the "uncarrier" any more credit than it's already getting. As the last of the four major carriers to make the shift, Sprint already comes off as adaptively sluggish, and likely didn't want to further advertise that fact to the media.







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3 recommendations cb14 Member No way out For Sprint and Son, except spending a massive amount on the upcoming presidential election.

Or, which is unlikely to happen, getting a better company leadership and make Sprint smart and innovative and customer friendly.

Sprint behaves like V or Tea without performing like those two. That's a way to doom.

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2 recommendations C0deZer0 Premium Member Memetic comparo If this were compared to memes, Sprint would look like the "dirty sub-data peasants" while T-mobile's moves to disrupt the industry favorably would be more like the PC Gaming Wireless Network Master Race everyone is trying (and in Sprint's case, failing) to imitate.



Sprint being this slow to do away with contracts is a lot like how Microsoft finally made a high end Windows Phone, only to lock it to AT&T. If they want people to actually embrace the platform more, they should be taking a page from Google (and Apple) and make a model with all the carrier bands supported.