Comments on: Sprint Adds Unlimited Smart Device International Data Access for $40 a Month

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:56:05 +0000

This is great news, esp. if they continue it through this summer when i’ll be going to Israel

By: dominik

dominik — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:51:38 +0000

I can confirm the $40 package is back with sprint 11/29/2010 going to london and have it available so I added it. No more $1300 bill like last time

By: Jonathan Jost

Jonathan Jost — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:59:09 +0000

I’m traveling to Mexico on Friday and my company just added this service to my HTC touch PRO. This service option is still available as of 11.16.2010

By: Jaleel Shaw

Jaleel Shaw — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 04:19:58 +0000

Sprint just discontinued this plan two days ago….

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:08:08 +0000

It seems this is only for Nextel Is anyone on sprint getting this plan? I’m leaving for a trip soon and would love to use this

By: Dan Hesse

Dan Hesse — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:51:04 +0000

Yes the PAM deal wasnt handled that great. If customers asked for PAM, a rep shouldve been able to add it because PAM has been $20 ever since Sprint changed up its plans (in June I think?). Brochures in store even mention it from back then. However, this $40 international data roaming deal has been much more readily available than the PAM deal. I know for instance, for months now on Sprint.com if a customer chose a Smartphone and a Simply Everything or Everything 450/900 plan, the option to purchase Data Worldwide for $40 was there during the checkout process. It may have just now started appearing for current subscribers when they log into their account on Sprint.com though and thats why it was noticed. Trust me though, its been around.

By: Christopher Price

Christopher Price — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:58:50 +0000

I think that depends on how you define “available”.

Sprint told us that the newer versions of Phone As Modem were “available” for months prior to our reporting… only to retract that when they realized that no consumer would have found any information on those plans, prior to our reporting.

In the Dan Hesse era at Sprint, the company seems to soft launch plans internally, place them on Ensemble, and then never tell anyone about them until the hard launch. So, that may have been available to a Sprint Retail Store rep to add to a customer’s plan… but without any instructions that they are even allowed to do so.

And, if we weren’t briefed on it until just now, an employee probably wasn’t allowed to do it until just now.

By: Dan Hesse

Dan Hesse — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:12:50 +0000

This has been available for months now. Its $40 if you combine it with a Simply Everything plan or an Everything Data plan and $69.99 with other plans.

By: Christopher Price

Christopher Price — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:54:57 +0000

This is especially a good deal, if you can take the SIM from the ACE and put it in a UMTS phone over there.

Even if you don’t have Sprint as your carrier, $70 month for a new line of service isn’t too out of the question… it’s certainly the best deal in international roaming over here.

Remember, AT&T wants $200/month for 200 MB of international data. With Sprint, it’s $40/month for 5 GB (and, I doubt the cap on that is enforced right now).

By: UPdownLoAD

UPdownLoAD — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:13:22 +0000

Can you say Skype??