Sprint Upping Price of Its Unlimited Data Plan on Oct. 16

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Sprint's existing $60 a month Unlimited Plan that includes no restrictions on data use, talk minutes or texts will go up in price to $70 a month on Oct. 16, but customers can still sign up for the lower rate through Oct. 15.</span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-right: 14px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> </div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">"At Sprint, we give customers what they want—and they want the option of unlimited data," Marcelo Claure, CEO of Sprint, said in a statement. "At $70 a month, Sprint still beats the competition. Rather than increase the price without warning, we want to give customers one last chance to take advantage of the $60 rate."</span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-right: 14px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> </div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">AT&T formerly offered unlimited plans but dropped them while T-Mobile's unlimited plan is $80 a month.</span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-right: 14px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> </div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">The $60 unlimited rate is available to new or existing customers who purchase a new device through Sprint's iPhone Forever plan, a Sprint Lease, the Sprint Easy Pay plan or who pay full retail price. Customers also can get the lower rate when they bring in their own compatible device, according to the company.</span><br /> <div class="noncsa" id="olaad" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <div id="olal-container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="cachedWidget" id="assetsListings" style="background: rgb(207, 207, 207); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div id="assetsListings_listing" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="assetNew" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; cursor: pointer; display: table; float: left; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin: 5px 0px 10px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; width: 640px;"> <div class="assetNew-icon" style="border: 0px; float: left; height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 110px;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; margin: 5px 14px 14px 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> </div> </div>

Sprint Upping Price of Its Unlimited Data Plan on Oct. 16

Sprint's existing $60 a month Unlimited Plan that includes no restrictions on data use, talk minutes or texts will go up in price to $70 a month on Oct. 16, but customers can still sign up for the lo…

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Verizon Hikes Prices on Unlimited Data Plans

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Verizon Wireless just announced that subscribers who have long enjoyed low rates on unlimited data plans will be hit with higher bills. Customers who signed up for Verizon’s unlimited plan before 2011 will now pay another $20 a month for access beginning with their November 15 bills, save a few who won’t experience the price increase until their contracts expire.</div>

Verizon Hikes Prices on Unlimited Data Plans

Verizon Wireless just announced that subscribers who have long enjoyed low rates on unlimited data plans will be hit with higher bills. Customers who signed up for Verizon’s unlimited plan before 201…

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Verizon to raise price of grandfathered unlimited data plans by $20

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"> Verizon doesn't want to be the bad guy and completely get rid of its old unlimited data plans, so it's pursuing a new strategy: price customers out of them. <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Verge</i> has learned that Verizon will soon raise the monthly cost of grandfathered unlimited data plans by an additional $20 per line to $49.99. A friendly tipster clued us in on the change, and when contacted for comment, a Verizon spokesperson confirmed the news. The new rate will apply beginning in November.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 1.5rem;"> To be clear, $49.99 is the cost of unlimited data alone and is added on top of your monthly voice and text plan. I've got the Nationwide Talk & Text 450 plan ($59.99), so this change would raise my monthly payment to $109.98, and that's before Verizon's extra fees and charges. If you've got more or unlimited voice minutes, you'll pay more each month. For customers determined to remain on the unlimited plan, Verizon will now let them purchase new smartphones through its monthly device payment plan; previously, you could only buy phones outright at their full retail cost. That's <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">one</i> upside in this news.</div> </div>

Verizon to raise price of grandfathered unlimited data plans by $20

Verizon doesn't want to be the bad guy and completely get rid of its old unlimited data plans, so it's pursuing a new strategy: price customers out of them. The Verge has learned that Verizon will so…

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