Sprint has announced that it will not charge customers for certain levels of call forwarding. Conditional call forwarding for busy calls or calls not answered using a Sprint phone will be free beginning in mid-November.
The standard $0.20/minute charge will continue to apply for immediate call forwarding, with the change giving Sprint customers access to third-party voice services and emphasizing the new voicemail features in Google Voice unveiled on Monday, which do not require a separate Google Voice number.
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A good move but with the stipulations involved it doesn’t leave a good taste
This is a great move by my guy, Don Hesse!
Your homey might be mad at the misspelling of his name, it’s Dan not Don
Hmmm, I wonder if the “Sprint Phones” would include Nextel & Boost?
sprint will not charge for google voice!
http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:g9iaiXaesjUJ:www.google.com/support/forum/p/voice/thread%3Ftid%3D29cbaf51b4978448%26hl%3Den+sprint+call+forwarding&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
my homey needs to add spell check to his handsets! lol
this is great. I have switched my voicemail over to google voice. It works perfectly. Of course I will get charged till november but at least its good to know its only temporary.
http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/Sprint-loses-135000-customers-on-a-net-basis-in-the-third-quarter-article-a_7668.html
thank you come again
So on the call forwarding fees with Sprint…
Does it work the same way as when you are actually using the minutes?
For example, is call forwarding free on nights and weekends? Or is it free to use call forwarding if it’s a cell phone that calls you (and you have the any mobile anytime on your plan)?
As long as the forwarding is conditional, the only thing used will be minutes
So what if the forwarding is not conditional. If someone just forwards their Sprint number to another number so all the calls go there automatically. How do they get billed? Do they get billed for calls from cell phones and on nights and weekends? Or is it the same as if you were using the phone (cell phones and nights and weekends are free)?
$.20/minute and what ever minutes used, peak or n/w’s
Sprint is a snowball headed for hell. Give it up. You ruined nextel made me leave.
When in november does it become free for the conditional forwarding? I need a date.
There’s chatter that this was initiated 11/8