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Justin Herrick
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Sprint’s stance on two-year contracts has been confusing for the last six months. It was back in August that the carrier was rumored to be doing away with two-year contracts, but it wasn’t until last month when Sprint officially (and quietly) ended offering them to customers.
Less than two months after dropping them, Sprint is once again offering two-year contracts.
Michelle Leff Mermelstein, a Sprint spokesperson, told FierceWireless about the reinstatement:
“We listened to our customers and are giving them more choices to get their new device. Sprint is the only carrier to offer the most choices to obtain a new device — lease, installment bill, two-year contract or pay full retail price.”
If you head over to Sprint’s site, you can see for yourself that two-year contracts are indeed back.
It’s not expected that the other major carriers who abandoned two-year contracts will follow Sprint’s decision. Sprint could be getting desperate to retain existing customers and attract new ones on a network that is considered to be far behind the competition. The other carriers are seeing solid bottom lines every quarter, allowing them to continue on this path of monthly payments to sell devices while investing in better technologies. Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile have each committed to exploring 5G networks. Sprint, however, has been relatively mum on creating its own 5G network, only going as far as saying it has a “strong foundation” for the future.
Source: FierceWireless
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