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Sprint Stops Offering Two-Year Phone Contracts

Sprint will stop offering two-year phone contracts to customers who are activating a new account starting today, according to an internal document procured (http://www.androidcentral.com/sprint-kills-2-year-contracts-smartphones) by AndroidCentral. While phones will not be available with subsidies on a two-year contract, tablets will.





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As outlined by the document, two-year contracts will still be offered to select customers on a "reactive basis". The move makes Sprint the final carrier of the four major American carriers to end two-year contracts. New Sprint customers will be able to purchase their phones through Sprint programs like Easy Pay (http://support.sprint.com/support/article/Learn-more-about-Sprint-Easy-Pay/487c6885-c186-4f0d-b325-65b602af1de0) and iPhone Forever (http://www.macrumors.com/2015/08/17/sprints-iphone-forever-program/).





In 2013, T-Mobile began the trend by announcing its Un-carrier payment plans (http://www.macrumors.com/2013/03/26/t-mobile-usa-to-carry-iphone-beginning-april-12th-using-new-uncarrier-payment-plan/). Verizon followed suit (http://www.macrumors.com/2015/08/07/verizon-introduces-new-plans/) in August 2015 and last month AT&amp;T announced (http://www.macrumors.com/2015/12/30/att-two-year-contracts-ending-january-8/) that they would drop two-year contracts. While AT&amp;T's implementation takes away the ability for existing customers to sign up for two-year contracts, Verizon's does not, allowing existing Verizon customers to renew their two-year contracts.





Sprint has been planning (http://www.wsj.com/articles/sprint-to-abandon-two-year-contracts-1439837235) to move away from two-year contracts for a while, first announcing the move in August 2015. However, the carrier had not announced when its implementation would take effect at the time.

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Source: Sprint Stops Offering Two-Year Phone Contracts (http://www.macrumors.com/2016/01/07/sprint-ends-two-year-contracts/)