New SERO Oct 1st

[aldamon]

Originally Posted by quick99si

I suppose it only makes sense to slowly ween us off the $30 price point.

Why does it make sense? Because they want more money?

[japper88]

Originally Posted by aldamon

Why does it make sense? Because they want more money?

Obviously they want more money! Why else would Sprint prevent current SERO customers from getting android/palmOS/instinct series phones? (I never understood why they wouldn't let us get the instinct series phones.) I guess they did some number crunching and studies and determined that $10 was a good price point where people would be willing to leave $30 SERO 500 forever in order to get newer fancier phones. I think they softened us up first by denying us access to all the new "iconic" phones. Now people are hungry for android etc, $10/mo doesn't sound so bad. I hope this is where Sprint stops... although I have a sneaky suspicion that this is a slipper slope and Sprint will find another way in 2 years to tack on another $10 "premium fee"

[brownhornet]

Originally Posted by aldamon

Why does it make sense? Because they want more money?

Maybe because they're trying to stop LOSING money. I guess people here forget that Sprint is a business FIRST. Clearly you didnt think that this sero thing was going to last forever. Like I said on another thread.. you got over for a while and saved some money now its time to man up and pay up if you want Sprint to be able to survive. If Sprint let everyone be on sero and eventually got swallowed up by Verizon then you'd all REALLY see what its like to have to pay more per month.

[vzihome]

picture this your a hitchhiker and sprint is a pickup. sprint decides to let you on and help you get where ever you are going. you decide that you want to drive, and make several stops along the way, while complaining about the truck not being comfortable,etc... you just cant do that...beggars cant be choosers...enjoy the ride...when its time to get off say thanks. remember you could still be stuck hitchhiking in the middle of nowhere, or worse paying what most other plans cost...btw im on sprint with sero.

[quick99si]

Originally Posted by aldamon

Why does it make sense? Because they want more money?

I've heard claims from several sources of varying credibility, none of which were backed by figures, that SERO plans become a money losing proposition as soon as an "average" amount of data was used. I never bought this because a quick comparison to those unlimited Boost/Cricket/etc plans shows that SERO 500 can't be THAT much of a money loser, if at all.

I'm not condoning the act of tethering on SERO and transferring 30GB of data every month (that seems like plain old ABUSE to me). It's cases like that which kill the value of SERO for Sprint, and it may very well be part of the reason that Sprint is slowly but surely cutting down on the number of $30 SERO plans out there.

And by the way, these addons do make the SERO 1250 plan pretty damn useless.

[austin420]

Wirelessly posted (Opera/9.7 (WindowsMobile; PPC; Opera Mobi/35267; U; en; Presto/2.1.1))

Originally Posted by Mojary

it's a new plan in a sense that Mr. Mcguire stated on his blog by calling it the "premium SERO plan". and he also answered a question that was asked about going back to the $30 SERO...the answer was a NO. so if you decide to upgrade to the premium SERO plan, you will not be able to revert back in the future to the $30 plan.

i second and third this.
(multiple personalities, lol)

[w7excursion]

According to rusty you can go back to old sero.

[w7excursion]

So there lol. http://mcguireslaw.com/2009/07/24/ps...erything-plus/

[austin420]

Wirelessly posted (Opera/9.7 (WindowsMobile; PPC; Opera Mobi/35267; U; en; Presto/2.1.1))

Originally Posted by w7excursion

According to rusty you can go back to old sero.

not from what i read...
quote from comments section of the article you linkd to...
Russ Says:
August 17th, 2010 at 8:03 am

Matt,

From what I understand, online ESN swap doesn’t work with SERO because the plan type is no longer available.

But, in general, once you upgrade to the “premium” SERO plan, I don’t think you can go back, so your bill would remain at $40 or higher ($50 with EVO).

Russ

and this a bit later...

1. TJ Says:
   August 19th, 2010 at 3:03 pm Hi Russ,
   I conic devices on a SERO is wonderful news. But, my questions is, if i decide to let’s say get the HTC Hero on my SERO plan when I upgrade in October, I understand that there’s that $10 fee added each month which makes the $30 SERO now a $40/mo plan. That’s a fair trade. But what if after 6 months or 1 year, i decide to put back my HTC Touch Pro 2 back on my SERO (that’s what is currently activated on it)…does my monthly then go back to the $30/mo? Or will it stay at $40?
   Any info in clarifying this would be awsome!
2. Russ Says:
   August 19th, 2010 at 3:44 pm TJ,
   The premium SERO plan does allow upgrading to an iconic device, but it also provides some pretty significant other value as well - specifically Any Mobile, Anytime (calls to any U.S. mobile phone don’t count against your minutes) and free Sprint Navigation. Anyone can upgrade to the premium plan whether or not they want to upgrade to an iconic device. Once you upgrade, you can’t go back.
   Russ
3. Russ Says:
   August 19th, 2010 at 3:45 pm TJ - one clarification - you can go back to your old device or another non-iconic device, but you can’t go back to the non-premium ($30) SERO plan.

[Mojary]

Woohoo! Looks like he updated the post today regarding being able to revert back. Which is cool! This info closes the deal for me. I can upgrade my sero and after a few months, go back to paying $30 by reverting back to the tp or tp2 phone on it.

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