Plans

You should be able to pick up new or used phones of the same model and call or visit sprint and have them swap them out. Try craigslist or ebay and depending on how old the phone is you might be able to pick them up cheap. If you purchased insurance (the $7 per month thing) they should fix them or swap them out for free.

You might call Sprint to confirm there isn't a charge to activate the new (used) phone.

Good luck.

Actually, I just tried to buy online a new Palm Treo.  Guess what?  I was FORCED into one of the Everything Data plans.  Since when is a Treo so data centric?  I know that the Palm Pre and Palm Pixie are...but give me a break.

Seems like no matter what PDA or Smartphone you buy, you're going to be forced into adopting a data plan, whether you want to or not.  At least that's what it's saying to me on the website.

So what is this another way Sprint kicks Nextel customers to the curb? So because he picked a CDMA phone (regardless of model) he would have to change his plan to the current Talk/EM/ED.

****, no wonder people are running from this company if they have Nextel!

It has been 5 years since the merger and we are on Nextel's billing system now, I might add. So this makes Sprint look even more foolish. Computers can be made to do anything you want them to do, so blaming the billing system is not going to cut it. Proper blame goes to the IT apps department.