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Sprint BYOD: 1-Year Unlimited Talk, Text & Data

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Update: The official end date to sign-up for this offer is 4/4/19 (and will not be extended again). Plans will remain active for one year from your sign-up date (promotion discount will be retired in full on 4/30/2020).

Sprint is offering 1-Year Unlimited Talk, Text & Data for Free (pay only the monthly tax/fees per line) when you bring an eligible unlocked smartphone. Thanks andrewmackoul and comintel

Note, you will be required a purchase a Sprint SIM card to take advantage of this offer (SIM card is $2.99 ea. and $10 shipping & handling + tax).

Plan includes:
  • Unlimited data, talk and text
    • Video at speeds up to 1080p -> now 480p (DVD quality)
    • Music at up to 1.5Mbps -> now 500 Kbps
    • Gaming streams at up to 8Mbps -> now 2Mbps
    • Unlimited 4G LTE data for most everything else. Data deprioritization applies during congestion.
After 4/30/2020 (or the one-year end date noted on your account, whichever comes first), the price will become:
  • Line 1: $60/mo.
  • Line 2: $40/mo.
  • Lines 3-5: $20/mo. each per line
  • Pricing shown with AutoPay. Add $5/mo. per line without AutoPay.


Eligible Devices (updated 3/11/19, domestic versions). Must be unlocked and/or compatible with Sprint SIM card and network.
Note, other phones may be eligible. If your phone isn't listed below, you may check compatibility here or on the promotion page by clicking on the "Get Started" link:
  • Apple iPhone
    • Apple iPhone 5c (Verizon only)
    • Apple iPhone 5s (Verizon only)
    • Apple iPhone 6
    • Apple iPhone 6 Plus
    • Apple iPhone 6s
    • Apple iPhone 6s Plus
    • Apple iPhone 7 (Verizon only)
    • Apple iPhone 7 Plus (Verizon only)
    • Apple iPhone 8 (Verizon only)
    • Apple iPhone 8 Plus (Verizon only)
    • Apple iPhone SE
    • Apple iPhone X (Verizon only)
  • Google
    • Google Nexus 5 (16 & 32 GB – black/white/red) (Verizon only)
    • Google Nexus 5X (all versions)
    • Google Nexus 6 (32 & 64 GB – black/white)
    • Google Nexus 6P (all versions)
    • Google Pixel
    • Google Pixel XL
    • Google Pixel 2
    • Google Pixel XL 2
    • Google Pixel 3
    • Google Pixel XL 3
  • Samsung
    • Samsung Galaxy Note8 Special Edition
    • Samsung Galaxy S7 edge Special Edition
    • Samsung Galaxy S7 Special Edition
    • Samsung Galaxy S8 (Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile)
    • Samsung Galaxy S8+ (Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile)
    • Samsung Galaxy S8 Special Edition
    • Samsung Galaxy S8+ Special Edition
    • Samsung Galaxy S9 Special Edition
    • Samsung Galaxy S9+ Special Edition
    • Samsung Galaxy Note9
    • Samsung Galaxy S10
    • Samsung Galaxy S10e
    • Samsung Galaxy S10+
  • Motorola
    • moto e4
    • moto e4 plus
    • moto g4
    • moto g4 play
    • moto g4 plus
    • moto g5 plus
    • moto g5s plus special edition
    • moto g6
    • moto g6 play
    • moto G7 Reo
    • moto x pure edition
    • moto x4
    • moto z2 play
    • moto z3 play
  • Other Brands
    • Alcatel IDOL5
    • Asus NovaGo
    • BLU S1/VIVO S
    • Essential Phone
    • HTC One A9 (Sprint Version only)
    • HP Spectre Folio GbPS ACPC
    • Lenovo Miix 630
    • Lenovo Yoga
    • LG X Charge
    • LG V30S
    • LG V35 ThinQ
    • LG G7 ThinQ
    • LG Stylo 4
    • LG V40 ThinQ
    • Nuu A6LC
    • Orbic Wonder
    • ZTE Blade Max 2s

Editor's Notes

Written by RevOne | Staff
  • Credit approval req. Req. AutoPay, eBill, and port-in from postpaid carrier. Savings until 4/30/2020; then $60/mo. for line 1, $40/mo. for line 2 & $30/mo./line for lines 3-5. Reqs. AutoPay (discount applied w/in 2 invoices), new account, bring your own eligible device & Sprint SIM card. Refer to the forum thread for additional information & discussion. -johnny_miller
  • Updated 8/19/18: You may also refer to this article for more information. -Corwin
No longer included:

10GB of high-speed data per line to use toward mobile hotspot, VPN and Peer-2-Peer usage. Once your 10GB is used up:
  • Continue at up to 2G speeds (32 Kbps) on our network for no additional cost, or
  • Purchase more on-network high-speed data for $15/1GB to tide you over for the rest of your bill cycle.

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Written by andrewmackoul
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Update: The official end date to sign-up for this offer is 4/4/19 (and will not be extended again). Plans will remain active for one year from your sign-up date (promotion discount will be retired in full on 4/30/2020).

Sprint is offering 1-Year Unlimited Talk, Text & Data for Free (pay only the monthly tax/fees per line) when you bring an eligible unlocked smartphone. Thanks andrewmackoul and comintel

Note, you will be required a purchase a Sprint SIM card to take advantage of this offer (SIM card is $2.99 ea. and $10 shipping & handling + tax).

Plan includes:
  • Unlimited data, talk and text
    • Video at speeds up to 1080p -> now 480p (DVD quality)
    • Music at up to 1.5Mbps -> now 500 Kbps
    • Gaming streams at up to 8Mbps -> now 2Mbps
    • Unlimited 4G LTE data for most everything else. Data deprioritization applies during congestion.
After 4/30/2020 (or the one-year end date noted on your account, whichever comes first), the price will become:
  • Line 1: $60/mo.
  • Line 2: $40/mo.
  • Lines 3-5: $20/mo. each per line
  • Pricing shown with AutoPay. Add $5/mo. per line without AutoPay.


Eligible Devices (updated 3/11/19, domestic versions). Must be unlocked and/or compatible with Sprint SIM card and network.
Note, other phones may be eligible. If your phone isn't listed below, you may check compatibility here or on the promotion page by clicking on the "Get Started" link:
  • Apple iPhone
    • Apple iPhone 5c (Verizon only)
    • Apple iPhone 5s (Verizon only)
    • Apple iPhone 6
    • Apple iPhone 6 Plus
    • Apple iPhone 6s
    • Apple iPhone 6s Plus
    • Apple iPhone 7 (Verizon only)
    • Apple iPhone 7 Plus (Verizon only)
    • Apple iPhone 8 (Verizon only)
    • Apple iPhone 8 Plus (Verizon only)
    • Apple iPhone SE
    • Apple iPhone X (Verizon only)
  • Google
    • Google Nexus 5 (16 & 32 GB – black/white/red) (Verizon only)
    • Google Nexus 5X (all versions)
    • Google Nexus 6 (32 & 64 GB – black/white)
    • Google Nexus 6P (all versions)
    • Google Pixel
    • Google Pixel XL
    • Google Pixel 2
    • Google Pixel XL 2
    • Google Pixel 3
    • Google Pixel XL 3
  • Samsung
    • Samsung Galaxy Note8 Special Edition
    • Samsung Galaxy S7 edge Special Edition
    • Samsung Galaxy S7 Special Edition
    • Samsung Galaxy S8 (Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile)
    • Samsung Galaxy S8+ (Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile)
    • Samsung Galaxy S8 Special Edition
    • Samsung Galaxy S8+ Special Edition
    • Samsung Galaxy S9 Special Edition
    • Samsung Galaxy S9+ Special Edition
    • Samsung Galaxy Note9
    • Samsung Galaxy S10
    • Samsung Galaxy S10e
    • Samsung Galaxy S10+
  • Motorola
    • moto e4
    • moto e4 plus
    • moto g4
    • moto g4 play
    • moto g4 plus
    • moto g5 plus
    • moto g5s plus special edition
    • moto g6
    • moto g6 play
    • moto G7 Reo
    • moto x pure edition
    • moto x4
    • moto z2 play
    • moto z3 play
  • Other Brands
    • Alcatel IDOL5
    • Asus NovaGo
    • BLU S1/VIVO S
    • Essential Phone
    • HTC One A9 (Sprint Version only)
    • HP Spectre Folio GbPS ACPC
    • Lenovo Miix 630
    • Lenovo Yoga
    • LG X Charge
    • LG V30S
    • LG V35 ThinQ
    • LG G7 ThinQ
    • LG Stylo 4
    • LG V40 ThinQ
    • Nuu A6LC
    • Orbic Wonder
    • ZTE Blade Max 2s

Editor's Notes

Written by RevOne | Staff
  • Credit approval req. Req. AutoPay, eBill, and port-in from postpaid carrier. Savings until 4/30/2020; then $60/mo. for line 1, $40/mo. for line 2 & $30/mo./line for lines 3-5. Reqs. AutoPay (discount applied w/in 2 invoices), new account, bring your own eligible device & Sprint SIM card. Refer to the forum thread for additional information & discussion. -johnny_miller
  • Updated 8/19/18: You may also refer to this article for more information. -Corwin
No longer included:

10GB of high-speed data per line to use toward mobile hotspot, VPN and Peer-2-Peer usage. Once your 10GB is used up:
  • Continue at up to 2G speeds (32 Kbps) on our network for no additional cost, or
  • Purchase more on-network high-speed data for $15/1GB to tide you over for the rest of your bill cycle.

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Guess they are finally valuing their service quality at zero dollars!! Having unfortunate experience of being a sprint customer, I wholeheartedly concur with the valuation of their service.
Can I cancel after the first year?
Hi! I have ten specific questions that only pertain to my individual circumstances. I epitomize laziness and my sense of entitlement is impervious to reason. Therefore it is the responsibility of anyone and everyone who reads this to find the answers to my questions.

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Quote from rkx :
Porting process is almost instantaneous.
For mobile numbers yes but for GV number can take 1-3 days
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Quote from VladimirY :
They can find your carrier in an instant: http://https://www.textmagic.com/...ier-lookup

If they don't check it during their validation before credit check and their Customer Service claims MVNO are eligible, they would get a month of service fees but create lots of pissed customers who will port out and never return.
Nice find. Do they do this though? Worth the hundreds of dollars you may lose and be pissed off about?

Not for me. To each his own.

Also may be pissed off people but sprint doesn't want prepaid people anyway. Could care less if they left. Most of the people using prepaid are going to leave anyway once the year is up. They want the postpaid people. That's where the money is for them.
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cardboardbox
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Quote from samaelt :
follow the last part of this link and go to "contact us". pretty straight forward. https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-1588
well thanks for the help but I cant find a way to send a message to tmobile without signing up for an account on their website and it wont let me do that without a tmobile phone number.
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Quote from rkx :
Yes I did the Verizon port out thing when you could get an iPhone se for like 100 bucks last year sometime. Signed up five lines got 5 iPhone se. Ported out in 3 days got all of my activation fees refunded.
When you signed up for Verizon did they do a hard pull on your credit? If that's the case, are we talking about 2 hard pulls for 1 year of service?OMG
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Sprint is terrible, customer service is the worst out of any company I've ever dealt with
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Just ordered: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/...323&is=REG anyone know if phone is compatible w sprint?
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Quote from honkon :
When you signed up for Verizon did they do a hard pull on your credit? If that's the case, are we talking about 2 hard pulls for 1 year of service?OMG
Well if you're not buying a house and you're credit score is decent what does it matter :/

People will sign up for 2 cc for less than this deal is worth.

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Quote from KHook321 :
I'm in mid Michigan and my speeds have generally been in the 35-45 Mbps range, hitting around 56 Mbps at a high and 30 Mbps at a low. This is about the same as I got with T-Mobile, although TMO seemed to be a little more volatile and would hit highs and lows easier.
That's pretty good, thanks.
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The only thing I'd add is why *wouldn't* they advertise prepaid customers if they were meant to be part of the promotion? Don't you think an "everyone's welcome" promotion would just add to their benefit? There's a reason they're saying specifically *postpaid*.

I know people who already did this, or really want it to be true, typically retaliate in some way or another to justify their decision, despite knowing the facts. I'm sure once they get their bill they will be in Sprint stores having a fit saying "technically cricket is on a postpaid carrier!" lol. The guy at Sprint is going to curse his company to hell behind the scenes for even letting you sign up on that assumption in the first place, but he will also know you're not fooling anyone with you're "I didn't understand" garbage.

I've been there, I've seen it. I've been threatened, I've been punched. There were days I sided with the customers, and days where I think that the person's just upset they couldn't get away with trying to get one past them.

I hope this works out for all you prepaid folks, but don't hold your breath... That's all I'm sayin'...
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Quote from MichealM7200 :
what are the chances that you could trifecta this deal by getting tmobile to pay off your pixel for canceling verizon, and also get the unlimited sprint plan for coming from vzw?
Yes it can be done, but requires a little planning.. since you can't port out of T-Mobile for ~8weeks (waiting for rebate) and Sprint's offer ends 6/30.

To hop from VZ to T-Mobile to Sprint.
It can be done. Here are the steps:
  1. Existing 60-day VZ customer, financing Pixel/iPhone/etc.
  2. Open new T-Mobile acct Pixel promo, Port number from VZ to T-Mobile.
  3. Pay VZ final bill + Pixel finance balance.
  4. Apply T-Mobile Pixel payoff rebate.
  5. Start Sprint 1YR free with Pixel IMEI and different number to port-in to Sprint.
  6. Pay a couple of T-Mobile monthly bills.
  7. Receive T-Mobile rebate. (~8weeks)
  8. Cancel T-Mobile acct and number.
  9. 3 hard credit pulls. (One by Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint)
  10. In the end, will have 1 Pixel and 1 year of Sprint service!
Anyone brave enough to attempt this?!

EDIT: "Get out of the Red" new promo has 60-day Verizon customer requirement. Does the old Pixel payoff have the same 60-day requirement? If yes, then all of this only works for 60-day+ VZ existing customers financing Pixel, iPhones, etc..
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Quote from JohnS7913 :
The only thing I'd add is why *wouldn't* they advertise prepaid customers if they were meant to be part of the promotion? Don't you think an "everyone's welcome" promotion would just add to their benefit? There's a reason they're saying specifically *postpaid*.

I know people who already did this, or really want it to be true, typically retaliate in some way or another to justify their decision, despite knowing the facts. I'm sure once they get their bill they will be in Sprint stores having a fit saying "technically cricket is on a postpaid carrier!" lol. The guy at Sprint is going to curse his company to hell behind the scenes for even letting you sign up on that assumption in the first place, but he will also know you're not fooling anyone with you're "I didn't understand" garbage.

I've been there, I've seen it. I've been threatened, I've been punched. There were days I sided with the customers, and days where I think that the person's just upset they couldn't get away with trying to get one past them.

I hope this works out for all you prepaid folks, but don't hold your breath... That's all I'm sayin'...
Jesus H Christ. Nowhere did they say "postpaid customers" or "postpaid accounts". They said "postpaid carrier." If you're going to read the fine print literally, read it literally. They also advertised this as "Stopped being ripped off by Verizon", and they also say the only eligible iPhone 7 is the Verizon model. None of that is true. You don't have to be with Verizon! Moreover, they're approving phones and accepting money for SIMs from people with prepaid accounts at postpaid carriers. People worrying about this are just like the knuckleheads wringing their hands over whether it's a hard of soft credit pull. You are some ridiculous people.
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Had 4 unlocked phones all come back as not eligible -- 2 Nexus 5X, Moto G4 play, Moto G4. Called CS and they said it's because they were on Sprint prepaid MVNO. Said they couldn't do anything and the phones won't qualify. These phones were on Ringplus, then Ting, but now on MintSim (2 of them) and Freedompop GSM SIM (other 2).

I went into my old Ting account -- all 4 phones were listed as inactive but still showing up in the device section. I haven't used Ting in months. I deleted all 4 phones, and now they come up as eligible on the BYOD check on Sprint! So if you were on R+ or Ting, go into your Ting account and delete your phone to get it released.

Now the question is has anyone successfully got an account using a pre-paid phone #? I'd rather not use the MintSim #s because they have many months of service left. My Freedompop #s and google voice #s come up as eligible. Any luck with these for people going all the way through to getting a SIM and activating? Something cheap like an ATT or Tmobile prepaid would be great if it works (FP is a real pain to get port-out info from what I can tell).
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Quote from rkx :
Yes there may be a lot of angry people soon. Per terms must be ported from postpaid. If you do not follow terms then you may not get promotion. I say may but I wouldn't take the risk. Rather spend 10-15 bucks to port my prepaid numbers to postpaid to save 600+$ than try to save meager 15 bucks and get screwed.

Can't trust reps when they tell you soft pull when it's clearly a hard pill and then also tell you things that are against what the terms specify.

Careful all. Read terms and don't get screwed.

Worst part is if you ported in from prepaid already then you won't qualify for the promotion anymore even if you port in postpaid numbers because you will no longer be a new customer.
I'm currently with a pre-paid MVNO. How do you recommend I transfer over to a post-paid service before swapping to Sprint? What's the cheapest post-paid carrier I can swap to?
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Quote from BarrelEye :
Jesus H Christ. Nowhere did they say "postpaid customers" or "postpaid accounts". They said "postpaid carrier." If you're going to read the fine print literally, read it literally. They also advertised this as "Stopped being ripped off by Verizon", and they also say the only eligible iPhone 7 is the Verizon model. None of that is true. You don't have to be with Verizon! Moreover, they're approving phones and accepting money for SIMs from people with prepaid accounts at postpaid carriers. People worrying about this are just like the knuckleheads wringing their hands over whether it's a hard of soft credit pull. You are some ridiculous people.
Okay bud. I know what you'll be doing and saying when you get your first bill. Just know that bs isn't going to fly... Get mad at me all you want... Won't change anything... If you've already done it, it is what it is, right? Like I said, I hope it works out for everyone else.

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