What plan are you doing that saves you money forever? Might make sense for me to switch over to that once the next year’s up.
The $15/mo unlimited throttled “Kickstart” plan that was available for a limited time in mid June.
Keep an eye out in case they offer it again.
Even though your write-up doesn’t apply to me, it was so thorough that I’m encouraged to try to move my line from Tello to Sprint.
The only thing from @orthros that I would recommend trying to avoid if possible is the $115 he spent on mint. He should be able to get a refund, but if it can be avoided, that is even better. I was able to port out to tmobile for $20. But I did have a spare unlocked phone that I ported to and a sprint phone that I ported back to. Also, I don’t know what held me up when sprint was trying to port my number back in. I think it was tmobile, but I can’t be sure. It could have just been their system since the deal was expiring that day and they had a ton of people calling in about it. I didn’t finish my phone call with them until after midnight, but they assured me that I would get the deal since I called before it ended. I’m all about avoiding a call every year, so I’m glad I got the $15 plan that never expires. But after doing it once and getting it behind me, considering the savings, it wasn’t that bad. So I would recommend the yearly port in-out required for a $0 plan for people that want to save money. Like orthros said, just set aside several hours to do it. The nice part is that the sprint operator was very nice and super helpful. She wouldn’t give up. Just kept trying things until it worked (all behind the scenes while I was on hold. I have no idea what she did).
The funny thing is, when the $0 plan started a year ago, no one figured it would still be around a year later for people to port out and back into, so the fact that some people are on it for another year is a pleasant and unexpected bonus. When they switched in the first place, they assumed that after a year, they would have to change their plan anyway. It is totally worth a few extra steps to change your plan and then change back if it means another year of $0 service.
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A couple notes:
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You don’t need to purchase SIM cards on Sprint’s website. If you have an old Sprint SIM that is compatible with your phone, it will work. However you will need to sign up for the plan by calling instead of using the Sprint website.
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10 GB mobile hotspot/month is no longer included in this plan as of mid-July.
Lots of great tips here.
I’ll add that I still recommend everyone consider porting out to Google Voice. Maybe not if you use an iphone, but if you’re on android for sure.
Doing that once would eliminate having to port in/out your real number. You could just sign up for a new number with tmobile and port that throw away number in.
As far as I know, there is no way to add hotspot as an added service through Sprint with this plan.
And now I’m not so encouraged. 
My brain can’t follow the logic of these machinations. Are you suggesting using a Google Voice number as your “real” number and then forward your Google Voice calls and messages to whatever your current cell number happens to be?
Maybe this is why I gave up chess and stick to checkers.
Yes, that’s it exactly.
When you want to change service you simply cancel the cell service you have and log into Voice and change the forwarding number. Instantly everything forwards to your new service #.
You can also give away your ‘junk’ service number to anyone and everyone and just change it when you want to get rid of all the spam calls/texts.
I could go on, there are plenty more benefits to it.
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I’m not so sure about relying on Google Voice with a main number. People still have issues receiving/sending to short code numbers. Also it’s another added layer of voice latency which puts in awkward delays that cause me and the other person to be talking over each other constantly. That’s in addition to have all your communications archived on Google’s servers.
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We are currently shopping around for my wife and now that there are so many options out there, I’m thinking that a taking advantage of a free year of Sprint while they still offer it is the way to go. A year from now, I will bet there will still be some $15/month MVNO plans around.
Just to be sure, with this plan, I can leave Sprint at anytime between now and 9/30/19 and it won’t cost anything. There is no contract, correct?
Correct. No contract.
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Get paid to use Sprint?
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My procrastination on signing up again pays off. Thanks msy
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Same here. Saw this and signed up Friday night. I’m not counting my chickens, but I was going to get the sprint account anyway, so might as well try for the $100 too.
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Update: $100 showing as pending in my BeFrugal account.
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(NM - jcohen73 already confirmed this works.) I am preparing my plan to recycle this deal when it expires in Jan 2019 for me. Here are my thoughts.
Port out of Sprint back to VZ PP for $14 via ebay sellers. Then sign up for a new Sprint account under a the opposite family member and port from VZ back to sprint under a new free agreement. Has anyone been down this road yet?
Bumping because I’m reupping finally.
Signed up as spouse last night, went through befrugal for 80$ cashback.
My process:
Used a spare dead phones ESN to sign up. Also signed up for a new email account and Google voice number.
Bought the SIM. I could have cancelled my service and used my current SIM but I think $13 is worth having a working phone nonstop right now.
When the SIM arrives I’ll document my swap. I plan on using a placeholder phone to swap my current service to that and then completing the sign up and port of GV ($3 to port out). Lastly I’ll cancel my current service.
Net would be $16 -$80 for another year of seevice. Plus $3 a month.
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I definitely could have rolled the dice but I figured the trouble I had in the OP combined with the upcoming weekend (I’ll be traveling) it isn’t worth it.
I almost didn’t meet and marry my wife because of a bungled Sprint device swap, so I’m sensitive to their issues.
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Befrugal is pending at $100 even though they say they’re only doing $80 for BYOD.