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Sprint Users: Save Money with "Simply Everything!"

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Recently one of our EVDO Experts and her husband decided to switch their cell phone service from AT&T to Sprint, to take advantage of their superior network coverage and of course try to save some money in the process. After reviewing Sprint's available plans, they decided on going with an Everything Messaging Plan, which Sprint advertises as providing voice minutes, unlimited text, video and picture messaging, and unlimited mobile to mobile calling with other Sprint subscribers. The Everything Messaging Family Plan with 1500 shared minutes is $99.99 for two lines of service and seemed like a great deal.

Unfortunately, they quickly learned that saving money with this plan was probably not going to happen. Here is what our EVDO Expert had to say about the experience:

The moral of Vanessa's story is: who really has time for all that BS? If she would have signed up for the Simply Everything plan from the start, she would have saved herself from:

• Bouncing from Customer Representative to Customer Representative
• Calling repeatedly to confirm charges and plans
  
• Being paranoid about not accidentally connecting to the internet (which is incredibly easy to do)
  
• Checking her account online every few days to make sure she hadn't mistakenly incurred any fees

In the log run, sometimes its wise to spend what initially seems like more money. By choosing the "Simply Everything" plan, Vanessa now has:

• Unlimited voice minutes
• Unlimited text, picture, and video messaging
• Unlimited internet access
  
• Email access
• GPS Navigation

With the Simply Everything plan, Vanessa now knows exactly what her Sprint bill is going to be each month, and she'll never have to call Sprint to find out if a feature is included. She can use all the features of her phone without stressing about extra fees. Because everything is included, she'll actually SAVE money, even though the plan is more expensive than the Everything Messaging plan she had originally chosen. With the Everything Messaging, she would have easily racked up "extra fees" for using features on her phone and wound up with a monstrous bill. With Simply Everything, there won't be any surprises.

As cheesy as it may sound, the bottom line is that the Simply Everything plan from Sprint is simply fantastic and the best way to take advantage of all the features available to your phone without breaking the bank.

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