[Bob45]

People complain too much. A discounted plan for X number of employees can easily be made up elsewhere. A discounted plan made available to the entire public is not so easy to makeup elsewhere. Their costs of maintaining their 3G architecture are reasonably expensive. 4G has not made it to but a few markets yet, so these phones designed to utilize 4G data capabilities are instead using the 3G network. This means that they have to make upgrades to accomodate this extra traffic on the 3G network. This is where the $10 premium phone, not 4G charge, fee comes in. The $10 fee to upgrade to the new plan makes available all non-premium phones (i.e. EVO or Epic) now, gives you unlimited calling to any mobile phone on any network, and provides unlimited Sprint Navigator. If you take advantage of both things then your total will come out to $50 + taxes. I encourage you to find a Verizon Wireless package containing the same features for the same price. You can't even find a package available to new Sprint customers offering those features for that price, as EPRP costs $70 if you want to use an EVO or Epic.