This sounds like a nifty HowTo on getting Sprint to give you a few extra bucks off your cellphone bill.
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Audio: Sprint Waives Activation Fee If You Ask Nicely
By 10.18.06
Looks like there’s yet another charge Sprint lets its retail stores charge you that is totally unnecessary.
Sprint Encourages Its Retail Stores To Lie
By 10.18.06
If you’re a current Sprint customer, watch out when you buy a new phone in a retail store. The store may try to trick you into signing up for a new contract, and Sprint, Inc, says it’s totally cool.
Save A Wet Cellphone
By 10.16.06
There was a time when the best place to charge our cellphone was near an open window in our apartment. One day, it stopped working and we took it into the Verizon store to get it fixed. The first thing they did was open up the battery case. On top of the Verizon LG phone battery was a small dot, normally white, that changes color when the battery has been exposed to water. As such, they phone was no longer covered under warranty and we ended up signing a new contract just so we didn’t have to pay full retail for their phone. We wished that instead we had known about these neat tips (again, at WikiHow) on saving your wet cell phone.
New Ways To Escape Your Cellphone Contract
By 10.16.06
Spotted some good tips on getting out of your cellphone contract, without paying a penalty fee, over at Wiki-How. Most of them we’ve posted already but here’s some new kids on the block.
Text Message Packages Hamstring Sprint Cancellations
By 10.12.06
An important caveat for those trying to cancel their Sprint service over the recent rate hike: If you’re on a text message plan, where you get say 1000 message for $10 or 300 messages for $5, this trick may not work for you, at least not at first blush.
Sprint Retention Department Phone Numbers
By 10.11.06
Here’s two extra phone numbers that may help you if you’re trying to cancel Sprint.
Defeat Sprint’s Rate Hike Cancellation Lies
By 10.11.06
Sprint’s retention department is trying its darnedest to prevent customers from jumping out a window of opportunity that would let them cancel service without penalty.
Cingular Prude, Verizon — And Staff — Puts Out
By 10.9.06
Rick needed a replacement earbud gel on his Jabra Bluetooth headset. He’s a Cingular customer so he went into a Cingular store to buy one. They told him he would have to buy an entirely new headset.
Cingular Spreads Pinnochio Porn
By 10.4.06
It started out innocently enough, a Florida mom trying to send her family members a picture of her daughter sporting new braces.
Jump Lines At Verizon Stores
By 9.28.06
A great hack for dealing with the interminable queues at Verizon Wireless stores.
Get Rid of Logos On Your Devices
By 9.8.06
According to this tutorial, with a bit of tape, persistence, and sugar cubes, you can easily remove logo stickers from your cellphone, PDA or whateva.
Cancel Cingular By “Moving” To Caliente
By 9.8.06
A reader reports he was able to get out of his Cingular contract by telling them he was moving to a remote area of NV.
Sidekick Celebrity Hacker House Arrested, Fined
By 8.30.06
Gizmoodo notes the hacker who penetrated T-mobile Sidekick servers and accessed user’s private information, has been sentenced to house arrested and ordered to pay T-Mobile $10,000. Among the compromised data set was a Secret Service agent’s secret documents and candids of Nicole Richie, Paris Hilton, and Demi Moore (left) and Ashton Kutcher (right, cowboy hat).
Secret Verizon Level Probed Further
By 8.30.06
In the comments, Matto points out the so-called “Verizon Vcast VIP” domain is registered to some guy in Cali.
UPDATE: Cancel Verizon By Moving to Cambodia
By 8.29.06
It’s raining and dreary, a perfect day for an indoor project. Like forgery. To escape our Verizon contract, we told them we’re moving to Cambodia to work in the US Embassy. The 30 days for us to send them proof of this is coming up. We know this really pissed a lot of people off when we first did this so let us explain. We were told that one way to break your cellphone contract was to tell them you’re moving to an area out their service range. Cambodia certainly fits the bill. Almost too well, it can be argued.
