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Sprint's One Up Offers Early Upgrades and a Monthly Discount

by on September 20, 2013
in Phones and Mobile, News, Cell Phones, Blog, Money Savers :: 1 comment

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Sprint One UpOver the past few weeks and months, Techlicious has been reporting on a slew of new wireless plans from the largest U.S. cellular carriers. Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile have all come out with contract-free plans with an early phone upgrade option. Today, Sprint joined the fold with One Up, it’s own early-upgrade plan.

Sprint’s new plan works much like the others – instead of buying your phone upfront with a huge subsidy, you pay for your device in full via 24 monthly payments. After a year, you can bring your old phone in to Sprint and get a new one, canceling any remaining payments on the old device.

Here’s where the Sprint plan differs from those offered by Verizon and AT&T: Sprint is offering One Up customers $15 per month off their monthly wireless bill to make up for the loss of subsidy. That adds up to $360 in savings over 2 years – not too shabby. There are a few catches, of course. Your $15 discount goes away when your phone is fully paid for, and you’ll have to pay a $36-per-line activation fee to get started.

I was pretty brutal with AT&T and Verizon’s trade-in plans – they’re great deals for the carriers, but not really a good deal for you. Sprint may be late to the party, but the One Up plan makes a heck of an entrance. If you’re looking for an early trade-in plan, Sprint’s latest is worth checking out.

For more on Sprint's One Up plan, check out the Sprint website.


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Is it really a good deal?

From James on September 20, 2013 :: 8:06 pm

I am glad they made some changes, but I am confused if it is truly a good deal. Why would the price go up after I paid full price for the phone? Instead of paying $80/mo for a $200 subsidized phone I will be paying $65 + $27 =$92 (plus another $11 for their insurance). So basically I am paying $12 (92-80) for the luxury to upgrade my phone and once its paid off I will just pay the $80. It just seems cheaper to pay the $200 and $80/mo for the phone. I want to spend less a month, versus being under some never ending system paying more.

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