Sprint Goes Live with ‘Any Mobile, Anytime’ Plan
By James Falconer on Thursday, September 10th, 2009 at 6:46 AM PST In Sprint
This is a biggie… Sprint (NYSE: S) is really opening up their guns on this one. They’ve unveiled the new ‘Any Mobile, Anytime‘ plan. This new plan will let you use your Sprint phone to call any mobile on any carrier at ANY time… for as long as you like. Translation? unlimited calling to all cellular phones. Nice!
I should note that you get all this for $69.99 per month. Not too shabby at all, not too shabby. I can hear T-Mo, AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) shaking in their boots already. Oh, and did I mention this plan offers unlimited data, SMS, MMS, GPS nav, Sprint TV and more?
All I’ve got to say is well done, Sprint. Lets see how the other major carriers act and respond to this one. Other comparable plans from the other guys don’t even come close!
Any Mobile, Anytime will be added to all Everything Data plans at the beginning of the next billing cycle. If you’re already on the plan, do nothing…it’ll be added automatically. For more information, hit up anymobile.sprint.com.
[Via: PreCentral]
Ah, but does it offer any sort of tethering?
I still tether on my Treo 755p on an EverythingData plan, but my understand is that what I am doing is no longer allowed. And Sprint turned off tethering on the Pre. And next month when I pick up a Hero, I am going to want to tether.
This plan is a major step in the progression of the death of “voice” plans. We’ve all known they haven’t existed for a while…it’s all just data. I thought carriers would keep up the farce longer, “no those are your voice minutes, this is your data plan”, but I’m glad to see it. In 6 months or a year we might see plans offered as just bandwidth allotment/month. You can text and call pretty much as much as you want since it uses almost no bandwidth, but you will still pay a premium to use data services on the go. That is, until Clear starts offering Wimax phones and forcing mobile carriers to lower the price at which they provide data. Clear is a data wholesaler, and the mobile companies who don’t have the bandwidth to be competitive in pricing in the future will become irrelevant.
I don’t think that data is nearly as important as calls. I have a Straight Talk phone with unlimited talk, texts and 30mb of data for $45/month which runs on Verizon’s network nationwide. Sprints plan is limited and it’s expensive so not worth it in my view.