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Sprint company restructured its pricing plans Thursday, as wireless carriers compete for attention and introducing the latest Apple iPhone next month before new subscribers. T-Mobile is dropping lower-priced monthly data plans and replacing them with a higher-priced service offering unlimited data. PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS.
The new pricing plan comes as customers insist on a long call and switch carriers less frequently.
T-mobile United States companies and Sprint company restructured its pricing plans Thursday, as wireless carriers compete for attention and introducing the latest Apple iPhone next month before new subscribers.
T-mobile said it shed its cheapest monthly calling plans and replace them with higher prices of services, provides unlimited data. Sprint (Sprint) in response, about an hour after the price, fell to their unlimited calling plans.
The move was the latest attempt to lure customers have seen Americans saturated industry adhere to their smartphones much longer time and less frequently switch between operators. Only Sprint, trying to win back customers lost in the millions in recent years to promote discounts. Other carriers are trying to subscription servers plans to increase they spend each month.
Verizon Communications and control over two-thirds AT&T the company's national wireless connection recently reported that only 0.97% and 0.94% monthly loss, respectively, among mainstream customers.
On Wednesday, the minimum information for AT&T price, while reducing most data users. In July, Verizon proposed monthly price from $ 5 to $ 10, but in the higher priced plans to provide more information.
T-mobile, 3 carriers by a subscription server, said on Thursday that its new t-mobile plan it gets rid of its old models, sales slow down information before a certain amount of data downloads per month for a subscription server.
"It is our rate plans," Chief Executive Officer John · Ledger said in a conference call. "It's hard to AT&T and Verizon."
Newt-mobile plans to spend $ 70 on one line, up from $ 65 per month group of 61 million Yuan a month data plan or $ 50 for 2G before.
Ledger admits that the new installer can improve customer's lowest floor plans, but says customers looking for cheaper plans you can still buy cheap prepaid business concerns or make use of its brand prices.
In the new plan, a family with four mobile phones will pay $ 160 a month. T-mobile says its most popular family package provides four lines before for $ 120 a month and slowed after 61 million bytes of each device. Unlimited monthly plan of the four phones previously cost $ 220.
The new scheme will be provided on September 6, will phase out its previous plan. Existing t-mobile users can keep their current plan.
Sprint (Sprint) at the same time, prices for unlimited calling plans. Sprint (Sprint) says unlimited data for a phone will cost $ 60 a month, from $ 75 a month. Four unlimited data at a cost of $160, from the US $ 180. Sprint, t-mobile, which will limit the transmission of video, games, and music through its network quality.
Sprint (Sprint) Chief Executive Marcelo Claure said after the company decided to limit the flow of quality tests, most consumers see doesn't necessarily reduce the quality of the video and the difference between high-definition difference. Sprint's plans will be available on Friday.
T-mobile plan before the monthly data limit, even though they are effective for most customers unlimited. It allows customers each month before extended use of information and provides services to exclude many popular video and music services such as Spotify and Netflix,YouTube from its customers ' calling plans.
Leger did not predict how changes might move the company's overall sales but said revenue per customer may be neutral or slightly positive.
Newt-mobile offers a warning. All videos are streaming standards-defined formats. As with the original plan, t-mobile plans to limit users access to the largest amount of data – about 261 million bytes--each month through its wireless communications to the lowest priority when the network is congested. Using your Smartphone as a wireless hot spot beam computer's Internet service users would see the bandwidth speed slow.