Sprint's new tiered pre-paid wireless plans start at $35 per month

[Shawn Knight]

After taking over the helm at Sprint last month, billionaire entrepreneur Marcelo Claure has been working at a feverish pace to try and “stop the bleeding” as rival T-Mobile chief John Legere recently put it.

Claure overhauled the company’s postpaid service plans last month and now he’s turned his attention to pre-paid customers by introducing a trio of new plans for those interested in paying as they go.

The new plans start at $35 per month which includes unlimited talk and text as well as 1GB of data. For $10 more, shoppers can boost that data allotment up to 3GB. If that’s still not enough, users can double down on the data with 6GB for $55 each month.

The offerings are similar to Sprint’s other pre-paid brands, Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile, but give customers the peace of mind of doing business with a national carrier like Sprint. If you aren’t worried about brand recognition, you still might be able to find a better deal with Boost Mobile or Virgin Mobile depending on your talk / data needs.

One of the major downsides of Sprint’s new plans is device compatibility. At present, only five handsets work with Sprint’s new plans. They are, in no particular order: the Motorola Moto G, the Samsung Galaxy S III, the Samsung Galaxy 4 mini, the Kyocera Kona and the Kyocera Event. Pricing starts at just $19.99 for the Kyocera Kona (a basic flip-phone) and top out at $349.99 for the S 4 mini.

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[Guest]

Too bad I'm leaving sprint after 15 years because the "new" network keeps dropping my calls and delivering my emails late. Also for the last 3 months, Sprint was adding lines to my family account every week. The thing is, I wasn't adding them! I didn't know who these people were. They still haven't been able to fix the issue as they keep trying to charge $500 every month for another phone and line they keep adding to my account! Cheap service for cheap service. I guess you get what you pay for. Allocating more of my paycheck to Verizon.

 

[MarksCComputers]

I've been irritated with sprint the too. I've been a customer since MCI. I recently broke my IPhone and needed a quick replacement until I had a chance to fix it. They had different prices online, on the phone, and in the store. The sales department was out and wasn't allowed to get the refurb 4s I wanted from the online or business sales inventory. They also couldn't charge the $49 to my bill even though they were going to issue a $49 rebate in 4-6 weeks. I pointed out that they had done that for me for 17 years. Apparently they just can't now. I ended up getting the phone at Best Buy for $1 new and they gave me a $50 gift card. I got paid $49 instead of paying! It is sad that a non sprint employee could do so much better than any of the sprint sales departments. Their network is still the best in my area though.