Sprint Buyback and phone trade-in program hailed as No. 1 for fourth
straight year
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http://www.sprint.com
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- (Business Wire)
While Sprint [NYSE:S] continues to match all major U.S. carrier phone
trade-in pricing, the company announced today it will guarantee all
T-Mobile customers a minimum of $200 instant trade-in value when they
take their wireless number to a participating Sprint store and trade in
their current working T-Mobile smartphone.1
The offer, available through April 9, also can be combined with a
contract buyout offer, where eligible T-Mobile customers can get up to
$350 per line via a prepaid or reward card to cover their installment
billing balance on their current device or early termination fees after
online registration.
Sprint continues to offer the best value in wireless for individuals
with unlimited high-speed data, talk and text while on the Sprint
network versus T-Mobile’s unlimited high-speed data plan. Check it out!
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Example for Individual Line, Samsung Galaxy S® 5
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| Sprint $60 Unlimited Plan with Sprint
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| T-Mobile Simple Choice Plan with
Equipment Installment Program |
Monthly rate plan costs, including Unlimited high-speed data, talk
and text
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$60
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$80
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Monthly phone cost over 24 months
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$20
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$27
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Monthly plan & phone cost over 24 months
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$80
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$107
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Sprint unlimited individual line plans start as low as $50 per month
for other select devices.
Comparison does not include device
purchase at end of lease, taxes or surcharges.
Compared to
T-Mobile’s $80 Simple Choice Plan with unlimited high-speed data and
includes unlimited international text and data features and Rhapsody
unRadio.
Sprint also announced today that Compass Intelligence, a market
analytics and consulting firm, recognized the carrier’s phone
buyback and trade-in program as the best among all major U.S.
carriers for the fourth straight year.
Compass Intelligence, which recently announced the recipients of its 2015
Compass Intelligence Awards, acknowledged Sprint’s commitment to
reclaiming devices and the convenience of its trade-in program being
available online or in Sprint stores.
Last year, Sprint put more than $250 million back in customers’ pockets
with its trade-in program, Sprint
Buyback. Sprint trade-in values are better than competitors’
programs in many ways, such as providing an instant in-store credit that
can be used toward a new phone purchase, accessories or as an account
credit. Sprint also allows customers to trade in up to three phones per
line at any time and five in a calendar year. T-Mobile only allows one
phone trade-in per line, and that transaction must happen when customers
are purchasing a new device.
“Year after year Sprint continues to lead the way among all major U.S.
carriers for its phone trade-in program because they make it easy and
rewarding for their customers,” said Kate Pearce, director of mobility
research and senior wireless consultant at Compass Intelligence. “Their
program allows the flexibility and financial benefit customers are
looking for when they’re thinking about upgrading to a new phone or
switching carriers.”
In 2014, Sprint bought back more than 3 million phones. Of those phones
collected, more than 80 percent were remanufactured as certified
pre-owned devices. To date, Sprint’s phone trade-in programs have helped
create more than $1 billion in cost avoidance for the company by reusing
most of the devices they collect.
Furthermore, Sprint’s relationship with Brightstar Corp., the world’s
largest specialized wireless distributor, has helped it dominate the
phone trade-in and pre-owned phone market. Sprint and Brightstar Corp.
are subsidiaries of SoftBank Corp.
“Our industry-leading program gives customers a clear and immediate
financial incentive to turn in their old phone,” said Chad Lander,
director of Sprint’s buyback and phone trade-in program. “We’re able to
target customers, like those from T-Mobile, offset any termination fees,
and provide a far superior offering.”
In 2001, Sprint developed the first phone take-back program and in early
2010 was the first to take back other carriers' devices and provide an
instant in-store credit. In addition to having the best buyback program, Sprint
shattered the Guinness World Record for the number of cell phones
recycled in a single week back in 2013, more than double the previous
record set by AT&T.
About Sprint
Sprint (NYSE: S) is a communications services company dedicated to
delivering the best value in wireless. Sprint served 55 million
customers as of Sept. 30, 2014, and is widely recognized for developing,
engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including the first
wireless 4G service from a national carrier in the United States;
leading no-contract brands including Virgin Mobile USA, Boost Mobile,
and Assurance Wireless; instant national and international push-to-talk
capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone. Sprint has been
named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America for the
last four years. You can learn more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com
or www.facebook.com/sprint
and www.twitter.com/sprint.
1Offer ends 4/9/2015. Available for one eligible T-Mobile
wireless device per line in-store only. Device will not be
returned. Credit applied to store purchase.
Contacts:
Sprint
Marci VerBrugge-Rhind, 913-794-6319
Marci.j.verbrugge@sprint.com
Source: Sprint
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