Sprint Life Hacking

Imagine my surprise when I received my Sprint bill with overage charges greater than my monthly bill this month! Turns out, I had a lot of land line calls this past month.

Here’s the deal:

Sprint has a cheaper unlimited plan ($69.99) and a more expensive unlimited plan ($99.99). What’s the difference? One word: Land Lines. On the cheaper plan, you have 450 anytime minutes when calling out to or receiving calls in from a land line. Anything over your 450 minutes for landline calls is charged at $.45/minute.

Here’s the hack:

Sprint has a little known feature where you can call them (up to the last day of your billing cycle) and pay $5/100 minutes for overage minutes. This means that you could use up to 600 minutes OVER the 450 allocated to the plan, pay for them at the $5/100 minutes rate (a total of $30) and break even compared to the more expensive “unlimited unlimited” plan.

Conclusion:

Unless you are sure that you need over 1050 minutes of calls to and from landlines each month, you should use Sprint’s cheaper unlimited plan. Use Siri or a regular calendar reminder to alert you 5 days before your billing cycle is up to check you minutes usage with *4. If you are over your allotted 450 minutes, call Sprint and pay the $5/100 minutes.