Add a line for existing Sprint Sero Customers! Get Same Grandfathered plan of $30/month (500mins fair and flex) - YMMV for some people

Quote from RUsum1 : Sprint does not necessarily have the cheapest plan at $50. Doesn't T-Mobile have an unlimited everything plan at $50 per month and that doesn't even require a contract? What about Boost's plan that goes down $5 per month after every six months if you pay your bill on time? And when we consider other carriers, we can also factor in employment discounts. Let's say we join a carrier where we qualify for a 20% discount. That means We can get a $63 plan and it will only cost us $50 but then we also get the benefit of not being treated like garbage for having SERO like they are doing us a favor. We can upgrade our phones at third part resellers which usually costs a lot less than coming directly from Sprint, too. I'm going to have to start shopping around.

T-Mobile's $50 plan is unlimited everything but 4G speed is limited to the first 100mb of data.

Boost mobile you have to add $5 per month for an android phone, $10 for a BB. I assume the iPhone or a WP doesn't work on their system since they don't offer them. Your plan reduces by $5 p/mth at the 6mth, 12mth, and 18mth. mark for a total of $15, as long as your payments are on time. They don't have a wide selection of phones and I don't know if you can buy your phone from a 3rd party retailer or bring your own phone over.

Sero users are no longer restricted to buying a phone from Sprint and can buy from BB. I'm not sure about other retailers.

I'm in the same boat as RUsum, live alone, so SERO is still one of the best deals around for what you get for somebody that doesn't need more then two lines.

Quote from nycbrooklyn : Yea nothing much available out there. I will keep looking though.

If your still interested let me know...I have one ... PM me.

Does anyone on here happen to have an LG Marquee phone that they would be willing to sell?

would appreciate an answer to the below senerio, if anyone knows:

if i open up a new EPRP account with 4 iphones , can i port in 4 phone numbers from a tracphone purchased at walmart

Quote from RUsum1 : Does anyone on here happen to have an LG Marquee phone that they would be willing to sell?

I would have gotten a used Marquee rather than a used Samsung Epic 4g but for some reason these are hard to come by. On the local CL most of the Marquees for sale are flashed to Cricket. Not sure why that is. I like the Epic but paying that extra $10 'cuz it is a 4G phone is bothering me. I am thinking of going back to my TP2 until I can get hold of a decent priced Marquee. Not going to re-up and use my upgrade on a new one from Sprint. More likely to save that for when they roll out LTE in the area in a couple of months.

Quote from SirLinux : I would have gotten a used Marquee rather than a used Samsung Epic 4g but for some reason these are hard to come by. On the local CL most of the Marquees for sale are flashed to Cricket. Not sure why that is. I like the Epic but paying that extra $10 'cuz it is a 4G phone is bothering me. I am thinking of going back to my TP2 until I can get hold of a decent priced Marquee. Not going to re-up and use my upgrade on a new one from Sprint. More likely to save that for when they roll out LTE in the area in a couple of months.

Yeah most Marquees around me are also only for being flashed. I guess they are stolen a lot which means they can't be used on Sprint and have to be used on another network. I don't really want to go back to my LG Optimus...it was kind of slow.

Quote from aztony : T-Mobile's $50 plan is unlimited everything but 4G speed is limited to the first 100mb of data.

Might be true but with T-Mobile I can at least get a discount on the plan right? Doesn't Triple-A get 19%? I'm sure others get some other percentage off maybe up to 25% or 30%. But at 19% that $50 per month drops down to almost $40.

I have a simple question: what's the number to call in order to do TOL of a sero plan?

I called the retention dept. 1-877-775-4886, and I was told to call employee plan dept.
I called the employee plan dept. 1-888-876-8381, and I was told it's not possible to transfer a Sero plan.

I know I'll have to try many times in order to find someone that is willing to do the TOL, but which of the above number should I try, or is there any other #?

Thanks

Quote from hhaixxxxaihh : I have a simple question: what's the number to call in order to do TOL of a sero plan? I called the detention dept. 1-877-775-4886, and I was told to call employee plan dept. I called the employee plan dept. 1-888-876-8381, and I was told it's not possible to transfer a Sero plan. I know I'll have to try many times in order to find someone that is willing to do the TOL, but which of the above number should I try, or is there any other #? Thanks

No retention help from detention dept. Poor you.

Quote from PooMBA : No retention help from detention dept. Poor you.

corrected. That's what will happen when someone is typing and trying to calm a crying baby at the same time.

Just in case somebody here hasn't heard of Microsoft giving away free Windows Phones, check out the info on this thread:
http://slickdeals.net/f/4120241-S...?t=4120241

I got in on this deal and got myself a free HTC Arrive Windows Phone. Yes the phone is old compared to the newer windows phones but it's the only one offered by Sprint. It has all the updates of the newer models and it works great. Best thing, I didn't have to extend my contract or use a phone upgrade. I did have to upgrade to SEROP and I was told it would cost me $50 per month. When I checked my account online, it says $40, so we shall see who is correct.

^wish I had a microsoft store anywhere near me to take advantage of that. Instead I just picked up a nice used htc arrive for 80 bucks and man I love it. I've been waiting and waiting for sprint to get a new windows phone but it just hasn't happened. I'm settling on the arrive for now. In the first hour I changed the bootloader (HSPL) to allow for custom roms. Then I flashed an awesome custom rom (DFT v1 for gold_c) which completely unlocked it. I've been sideloading a ton of cool apps and tweaks. The rom has the latest mango update and it is screaming fast. No lag at all. Even playing need for speed is as smooth as can be. It's a great little device that does everything I need and tethering works great. For an older phone with only a 1ghz single core processor, this thing screams. It does not need a dual core by any means. IE9 browser is super fast and renders pages very well. Sprint upgraded me to the $40 sero premium no problem when I called the employee line. Activation only took a few minutes.

Looks like a few wp7 developers/hackers are working on a tango rom for the arrive and one should be a ready in a few days.

Quote from houdini13 : ^wish I had a microsoft store anywhere near me to take advantage of that. Instead I just picked up a nice used htc arrive for 80 bucks and man I love it. I've been waiting and waiting for sprint to get a new windows phone but it just hasn't happened. I'm settling on the arrive for now. In the first hour I changed the bootloader (HSPL) to allow for custom roms. Then I flashed an awesome custom rom (DFT v1 for gold_c) which completely unlocked it. I've been sideloading a ton of cool apps and tweaks. The rom has the latest mango update and it is screaming fast. No lag at all. Even playing need for speed is as smooth as can be. It's a great little device that does everything I need and tethering works great. For an older phone with only a 1ghz single core processor, this thing screams. It does not need a dual core by any means. IE9 browser is super fast and renders pages very well. Sprint upgraded me to the $40 sero premium no problem when I called the employee line. Activation only took a few minutes. Looks like a few wp7 developers/hackers are working on a tango rom for the arrive and one should be a ready in a few days.

Nice find for $80. Every place I looked wanted $150 or more. I just couldn't see paying that much for a phone that is over a year old. Is Sprint charging you the $40 plus $10 or just the $40? I was told it would be $50 but my account shows $40.

Wish I had your knowledge on how to unlock the phone and install ROM's. I've never done anything like that. What exactly are the advantages?

Quote from houdini13 : ^wish I had a microsoft store anywhere near me to take advantage of that. Instead I just picked up a nice used htc arrive for 80 bucks and man I love it. I've been waiting and waiting for sprint to get a new windows phone but it just hasn't happened. I'm settling on the arrive for now. In the first hour I changed the bootloader (HSPL) to allow for custom roms. Then I flashed an awesome custom rom (DFT v1 for gold_c) which completely unlocked it. I've been sideloading a ton of cool apps and tweaks. The rom has the latest mango update and it is screaming fast. No lag at all. Even playing need for speed is as smooth as can be. It's a great little device that does everything I need and tethering works great. For an older phone with only a 1ghz single core processor, this thing screams. It does not need a dual core by any means. IE9 browser is super fast and renders pages very well. Sprint upgraded me to the $40 sero premium no problem when I called the employee line. Activation only took a few minutes. Looks like a few wp7 developers/hackers are working on a tango rom for the arrive and one should be a ready in a few days.

Damn, you got an Arrive for $80? Nice deal... And that's awesome that WP7 phones have that level of hacking (custom roms, etc...) You got tethering to work too? Now I'm DEFINITELY interested...

Yeah, I'm loving the phone so far...did some more modding to it today and installed a few more apps. Sprint only charges $40, not $50.

Unlocking the phone and installing custom roms is actually pretty simple. It doesn't take long to learn a bit by reading over at xda-developers. Essentially, you need to run a utility that will downgrade the bootloader, then run two more utilites to RSPL/HSPL the device. Once that is done you are free to load any custom rom. There are only a few so far for the arrive but they are good and more are coming out soon. Usually the custom roms come fully unlocked so you can do anything you want on them and sideload anything. The advantages are that you always get the latest and greatest updates to the operating system instead of waiting around for sprint to issue updates. Also, being able to sideload anything you want is nice. Wifi tethering is probably my biggest advantage. It works great.