Sprint Plan Savings Strategy

[pb pedis]

I have two EVO's, and I'm on the absolutely unlimited everything plan for both phones, which means that on a monthly basis I pay $190 for the plans, plus $20 for the EVO's (that's the $10 fee times two EVO's).

Now, if I moved down to unlimited everything plan except for calls to landlines, I could save a lot. As I understand that plan, all calls to any cell phone are unlimited, but I would have a minutes cap on land line calls during the day on weekdays.

So, can I use some kind of App to make land line calls during the day on weekdays and avoid the charge to my limited land line minutes? I would want an App that allows calls to be received and placed. I think there is an App for that, but it requires a new number to be registered?

Any suggestions on how to achieve my intentions using an App would be much appreciated.

 

[mcl1981]

No. Google Voice will register as landline and Skype is not available.

 

[Mr. Ed]

wingbeepro, sipvox, fring, sipdroid jsut to name some?

all are in the market...I have not tried any of them as I have NEVER reached my limit of landline calling on the above mentioned plan.

 

[pb pedis]

wingbeepro, sipvox, fring, sipdroid jsut to name some?

all are in the market...I have not tried any of them as I have NEVER reached my limit of landline calling on the above mentioned plan.

Mr. Ed, do those apps incur land line minutes when placing calls to land lines?

 

[batman61]

There are several methods. Here is a good reference document to learn about some of the configuration options to use with Google Voice:

google-voice-sipsorcery-dialplans - Project Hosting on Google Code

With some of the options described in that document/wiki, you can configure Sipdroid to make and receive free calls through your Google Voice number using data minutes instead of voice minutes.

 

[Never!?]

Off Topic, sorta: If you want to save even more money, see if your work has a corporate discount. Most places do. Ive heard they range from 15%-28% off not including the $10.

Just saying.

 

[Deleted User]

Do you really make that many calls to landlines? We have 4 phones on the 1500 minute plan (3 are used normally) and we don't go over.

We used 287 + 137 + 115 + 12 = 551 anytime minute last month, with over 1600+ mobile to mobile.

I had the most, and those were a lot of calls to cable company during cable issues and a federal govt office to deal with selling my house.

 

[Mr. Ed]

Mr. Ed, do those apps incur land line minutes when placing calls to land lines?

...I have not tried any of them

no idea

 

[ceabbott2]

Do you really make that many calls to landlines? We have 4 phones on the 1500 minute plan (3 are used normally) and we don't go over.

We used 287 + 137 + 115 + 12 = 551 anytime minute last month, with over 1600+ mobile to mobile.

I had the most, and those were a lot of calls to cable company during cable issues and a federal govt office to deal with selling my house.

Same here. We have five phones and the 1500 minute everything familyand we only used 500 landline minutes last month.

 

[chum1600]

Do you really make that many calls to landlines? We have 4 phones on the 1500 minute plan (3 are used normally) and we don't go over.

We used 287 + 137 + 115 + 12 = 551 anytime minute last month, with over 1600+ mobile to mobile.

I had the most, and those were a lot of calls to cable company during cable issues and a federal govt office to deal with selling my house.

I agree with this person. I have 4 phones on my line and we never go over 500 minutes a month to landlines.

 

[pb pedis]

Same here. We have five phones and the 1500 minute everything familyand we only used 500 landline minutes last month.

I wish I could say I won't go over the 1500 minutes, but my wife uses those land line minutes like a fiend.

 

[pb pedis]

Off Topic, sorta: If you want to save even more money, see if your work has a corporate discount. Most places do. Ive heard they range from 15%-28% off not including the $10.

Just saying.

Actually your post is very much on topic - it's precisely to use my large corporate discount that I want to drop to the lower level plan. The corporate discount does not apply to the totally unlimited everything plans, only the plans with caps.

 

[pb pedis]

There are several methods. Here is a good reference document to learn about some of the configuration options to use with Google Voice:

google-voice-sipsorcery-dialplans - Project Hosting on Google Code

With some of the options described in that document/wiki, you can configure Sipdroid to make and receive free calls through your Google Voice number using data minutes instead of voice minutes.

Batman, thanks a lot for this post and the link. Although it appears to be beyond my own technical abilities (I have no idea what most of the words mean in that document/wiki), at least I have something to try now.

 

[aleesara01]

I second the sentinment of those who have replied above about not going over their minutes. We have 5 phones on our plan and end up using around 750ish minutes a month (w/7-8,000 mtm minutes). Before we had the 3000 minute plan and used around 2700 per month...