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Sprint is increasing the cost of their “regulatory charge” to 40 cents per line effective 01/01/10.  This a bogus fee collected by Sprint as a stealth rate increase. The notice is being sent out in cell phone bills. You have 30 days from the date of receiving notice that this cost is rising to cancel your plan for free.

“Regulatory Charge
Effective 1/1/10, the Regulatory Charge will increase to $0.40/line. Visit Sprint Ts&Cs or sprint.com/taxesandfees for details; also effective 1/1/10, the Sprint Terms & Conditions (Ts&Cs) are changing. Please review them carefully at sprint.com or on request.”

According to Sprint’s terms and condition there is no way to simply cancel your contract, you must terminate your service and you will not be liable for the ETF.

It may take a few phone calls to customer service, but you should be able to find a rep to let you out of your plan for free.  If not you can always write to Sprint saying that you do not accept the new terms and you wish to end your contract.

If you want to port your number out of Sprint be sure to tell the rep this before canceling service so that they can notate your account to waive the ETF upon completion of porting your number to another carrier. If you cancel your plan before porting your number out of Sprint you may not be able to get your number back.

If you try to cancel be sure to let us know what happens!

Here are the relevant Sprint Terms and Conditions:

“When You Don’t Have To Pay An Early Termination Fee:
You aren’t responsible for paying an Early Termination Fee when terminating Services: (a) provided on a month-to-month basis; (b) consistent with our published trial period return policy; or (c) in response to a materially adverse change we make to the Agreement as described directly below.

Our Right To Change The Agreement & Your Related Rights
We may change any part of the Agreement at any time, including, but not limited to, rates, charges, how we calculate charges, or your terms of Service. We will provide you notice of material changes, and may provide you notice of non-material changes, in a manner consistent with this Agreement (see “Providing Notice To Each Other Under The Agreement” section). If a change we make to the Agreement is material and has a material adverse effect on Services under your Term Commitment, you may terminate each line of Service materially affected without incurring an Early Termination Fee only if you: (a) call us within 30 days after the effective date of the change; and (b) specifically advise us that you wish to cancel Services because of a material change to the Agreement that we have made. If you do not cancel Service within 30 days of the change, an Early Termination Fee will apply if you terminate Services before the end of any applicable Term Commitment.

Update 2: Alive again!

Update: DEAD

Originally posted on 07/29:

sprint.com/sero

Use email address: russ.s.mcguire@sprint.com
Use code: 383

The plans are not nearly as good as before ($30 for 500 minutes), but they do include more features now.

Included in the new plans are unlimited internet, 7pm nights/weekends, roaming, GPS navigation, Blackberry or mobile email, Sprint TV premier, unlimited text/picture/video SMS, and direct connect.

500 minutes is $59, 1000 minutes is $79, and unlimited minutes is $99.

Update 5-7:00pm: Yechiel M. points out that he was just able to order a SERO plan by entering the site through Google’s cache of the sero site!
Sero site via Google Cache Linky
YMMV…good luck, and please post a comment if you’re successful!

Update 4-6:45pm: SERO is now dead!

Update 3-1:20pm: Mordy reports that SERO plans will soon be much more expensive.  Sign up now to lock in at the $30 price!  The savings@sprintemi.com email address is still working as a valid address to get a plan!

Originally posted on December 12th, 2005:

Update 2: Alive Again! Use savings@sprintemi.com as the email!
Update: DEAD!
sprint.com/sero
Email: savings@sprint.com

Sample Sprint Sero plan:
-free phone
-500 Flexible nationwide anytime minutes
-unlimited roaming onto verizon towers
-unlimited sms.
-unlimited nights/weekends
-unlimited calls to sprint and nextel phones
-unlimited internet access(including high speed internet with a capable phone!)
-unlimited picture mail
All for only $30/month!!!

It will be available 10/14 and it will be a Sprint exclusive.

Sprint Teaser Site Linky

It is currently available for pre-order from the Palm Store.

Don’t get your hopes up too high-but it’s a cute ad…
www.sprint.com/islandoffer

Offer Linky
The plan includes unlimited phone calls, sms, picture mail, walkie-talkie, and internet access.
It is currently being tested out for phones with area codes in the following markets: Philadelphia, Tampa Bay, Minneapolis, and the S. Fransisco/Bay Area.

Related Post:
A New Way How To Get Out Of Your Cell Phone Contract (Posted 06/06/07)

“These were the customers that had nothing to do but call us every single day demanding credit. And they were getting it because customer care was getting exhausted from arguing with them. So a nickel at a time these customers were collecting literally thousands of dollars in credit balances.”

HT: Consumerist

Meanwhile, here at ctown headquarters we are happy to report that our 20 lines of Sprint service are still going strong…

Warning: This is an advanced user hack, only attempt this if you are confident in your Palm OS skills!
Use at your own risk!!!
Also be sure than you are on an unlimited data plan, like SERO, so that you will not be charged per kilobyte!

Before Sprint launched Power-Vision(EV-DO) all phones could be used as a modem.
After the launch of power-vision it became a little trickier.
Samsung phones can be used as a modem pretty easily.
Originally there was a generic code that I outlined back in March of 2006.
Then Samsung got a little sneakier and changed the generic code to your phone’s unlock code. Luckily that code is fairly easy to get with Sprint.

At any rate Palm takes it one step further-you actually need to add a file to your phone to make it work as a modem.

The easy way is to pay $34 for Pdanet.

The following is for those of you out there who are up doing a little more work to get something for free…

Step 1: Download and install Resco Explorer onto your treo. Here is the application link for a 14 day free trial:
Resco Explorer .prc Linky

Step 2: Download and install the following hack ONTO AN SD/MINI-SD CARD. You can do so either by putting the .prc file directly onto the memory card using a memory card reader, or via Palm Desktop quick install and putting the file into the expansion card file. Hack Linky

Step 3: Launch Explorer on your treo and open up the SD card file for Palm, and then launcher to find the hack file. Highlight the hack file, go to the edit menu and select copy to and then copy it to RAM.

Step 4: Download Sprint Connection Manager. Install the files for the treo.

You should be good to go, if you have any problems connecting you may want to close down hotsync and/or try connecting to the internet from the treo itself before dialing out as a modem.

Just call 866-250-2221 or 866-881-9571 and ask for the free text messaging promo to be added to your SERO plan.
If you have any problems just tell them that it mentions the promo on the main site at sprint.com/sero
HT: R.R.

As I let you guys know over 2 months ago, there is a new treo for sprint that finally has an internal antenna!
755p Cnet Review Linky
This treo adds built-in push-email and IM support, a more stable version of bluetooth, a 320×320 high-res screen, and 128MB RAM.
Unfortunately it only accepts mini-sd cards.
According to cnet the cost is $429.99 outright or $279.99 with a 2 year contract.
Apparently, at least according to the sprint website the 755p is $579.99 outright, or $279.99 with a 2 year contract.

Now the question is will a letter from your yeshiva’s secretary be enough to qualify…
Offer Linky