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Sprint Drops Price on iPhone 4S to $149 With 2-Year Contract

Monday August 6, 2012 4:26 PM PDT by Jordan Golson

Ahead of the reported announcement of the next iPhone on September 12, Sprint has dropped the price of the iPhone 4S to $149.99 when purchased with a new two-year contract, as noticed by All Things D.

In addition to the reduced price, Sprint is also waiving the $36 activation fee. The special price is only available via Sprint's website. The iPhone 4S remains at its normal $199 price on the Apple Online Store.

Top Rated Comments

AR999

176 months ago

Remember that you pay for the phone throughout the contract, it doesn't really cost $149.

Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Mundty

176 months ago

I guess some of you don't realize, that there's a lot of customers who could care less about having the latest bandwidth technologies. Some people have iPhones to check their mail, play angry birds, and read the news.

But yea, let's give Sprint sh#t for cutting prices and publicly stating that they will NOT be adopting Verizon and AT&T's new pricing policies because they believe it's unfair to customers.

The things people will complain about astounds me sometimes.

Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)

outphase

176 months ago

I guess this is good for Sprint to try and capture last second sales on last year's handset. Bad for customers who will undoubtedly be sucked into it.

Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)

chipped

176 months ago

If Sprint's data speeds weren't so horrible I'd switch to them. My brother has an iPhone on them and he is lucky to see 200kbps down. I'm normally pulling 5-7mbps with AT&T.

Do you live under a tower?

Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

skellener

176 months ago

Locked into 3G for two more years? Horrible deal if you want LTE. If you don't care, sure, $50. off, why not.

There's no way I am signing a two year contract on 3G in 2012.

Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

linkycat

176 months ago

Seems to me they are locking in customers before an iPhone 5 that they won't carry. If iPhone 5 is 4G LTE, the Sprint network isn't ready for it yet

Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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