Sprint Goes After Verizon With 'Better Choice' Data Plans
Plans start at 1GB for $20 per month, and offer up to 40GB for $100.
By Stephanie Mlot
February 19, 2016 12:53PM EST
Sprint is catering to data-hungry families with its new Better Choice Plans, available nationwide today.
Sign up to get "unlimited" talk and text, then choose the number of lines you want and an appropriate amount of sharable data.
Sprint data plans start with the extra-small 1GB for $20 per month. Users can also choose 3GB for $30/month (small), 6GB for $45 (medium), 12GB for $60 (large), or 24GB for $80 (extra-large). There's also a 40GB-for-$100 option (XXL).
Keep an eye out for additional fees, including $20 per line for non-discounted handsets and $40 for discounted devices, as well as a $10-per-line access charge for mobile broadband and tablets.
Once customers reach their monthly allotment, data speeds drop to 2GB through the end of the billing cycle (for folks on the small plan or higher). If you can't stand sluggish Internet, tap into Sprint's automatic data buy-up option and 1GB for $15. For truly unlimited high-speed data, plans start at $75 per month for one line ($150 for four lines).
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Better Choice Plans include Sprint global roaming, free unlimited international texting from the U.S. to more than 180 countries, and a mobile hotspot. The latter does draw from your data allowance, so think twice if you're the type to eschew free cafe Wi-Fi for a personal connection.
Sprint's plans are designed to keep up with Verizon's S/M/L/XL shared data plans, introduced in August, which offer data in buckets of 1GB ($30) all the way up to 18GB ($100).
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