Sprint adds international call and text plan for $15 a month

Those of you on that travel internationally and are on Sprint may want to pay attention for a few minutes. The company has announced that it will be offering an “International Connect” plan that will allow you to call people in 65 international locations. Coupled with the “Framily” plan, you’ll be able to pay 15 extra dollars a month to use your minutes to connect to people in other areas of the world. As Kymber Umana, Hispanic marketing manager for Sprint stated:

“We understand how important international calling is to our customers. Connecting with friends and loved ones internationally can be costly and complicated, and we set out to change that with these new competitive and aggressively priced International Connect and International Long Distance Premier offers. Compared to many of our competitors, Sprint has better pricing in over 50 percent of countries worldwide.”

When you add the package to your plan, you’ll be able to use your unlimited minutes to call landlines and mobile phones in 35 countries, on top of sending unlimited texts to people in over 180 countries. Also, calls made to the UK, India, Canada, Germany, and Venezuela won’t cost any per-minute rates. Calls made to the other 30 counties available will come in at a significantly reduced per-minute rate, for instance, calls to people in Mexico will cost just one cent a minute.

Those of you who aren’t needing as robust of an international package may be interested in Sprint’s new $5 Long Distance Premier add-on. This package offers international calling at discounted pricing to landlines in Mexico and Canada for 1 cent per minute. Users will have to pay $.04 for mobile lines in Mexico, and $.01 per minute for mobile lines in Canada. You’ll also get lower rates to other countries as well. For example, calls to Guatemala will cost $.08 per minute for landlines and $.13 per minute for mobile lines.

For those that are interested, we have the presser for you after the break.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., May 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ – Sprint (NY SE: S) – Just in time for Mother’s Day, Sprint announced today that it will go even further in helping its customers connect with loved ones globally with the introduction of the $15International Connect: Call & Text add-on. Coupled with the popular new Framily Plan[i], the add-on allows customers to use voice plan minutes to call 65 international destinations, including Canada and Mexico, at no additional charge per-minute. The$15 add-on also includes unlimited international text from the U.S. to over 180 countries.

“We understand how important international calling is to our customers. Connecting with friends and loved ones internationally can be costly and complicated, and we set out to change that with these new competitive and aggressively priced International Connect and International Long Distance Premier offers,” said Kymber Umana, Hispanic marketing manager for Sprint. “Compared to many of our competitors, Sprint has better pricing in over 50 percent of countries worldwide.”

Customers who add the $15 per month International Connect: Call & Text add-on to a Framily plan can use their unlimited plan minutes to call both landlines and mobile phones in 35 countries[ii], in addition to sending unlimited texts to over 180 countries. Since customers will not pay any per-minute rates when calling countries such as the UK, India, Canada, Germany andVenezuela, they can focus on communicating with their friends and family without having to diligently watch the clock. In an additional 30 countries, customers can use plan minutes to call landlines and reap the benefits of significantly low per-minute mobile phone rates, too, including Mexico at just 1 cent a minute. A full list of countries and competitive rates can be found atwww.sprint.com/internationalrates.

The United States is home to the most international population in the world. Residents seeking to maintain strong ties to their home countries no longer have to find alternative calling options such as calling cards that often have hidden extra fees, complicated dialing patterns with too many numbers to remember, or subpar quality in the connection. Being able to make affordable international calls conveniently from one’s cell phone means not having to sacrifice staying connected at the cost of other daily needs.

For those with occasional international calling needs, Sprint’s $5 International Long Distance Premier[iii] add-on offers discounted international pricing calls from the U.S. to over 220 countries. For $5 a month, customers can call landlines in Mexicoand Canada for only $.01 per minute, or pay $.04 and $.01 respectively when calling mobile phones. Customers can take advantage of significantly lower rates in other countries as well, including Guatemala with $.08 and $.13 per minute costs for calls to landlines and mobile phones respectively.

International Connect: Call & Text Plan:

Customers who add the $15 International Connect: Call & Text plan to a qualifying Framily plan will receive:

• Zero cents per minute to call landlines in 65 countries
  • Includes mobile phones in 35 countries
• Low per-minute mobile rates in 30 countries
• Unlimited texts to over 180 countries
• Low priced per-minute rates when calling other countries outside of the included 65 countries

For more information about the new International Connect: Call & Text and International Long Distance Premier add-ons, please visit http://www.sprint.com/international.

About Sprint

Sprint (NY SE: S) offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers, businesses and government users. Sprint served more than 55 million customers as of March 31, 2014, and is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including the first wireless 4G service from a national carrier in the United States; leading prepaid brands including Virgin Mobile USA, Boost Mobile, and Assurance Wireless; instant national and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone. The American Customer Satisfaction Index rated Sprint as the most improved company in customer satisfaction, across all 47 industries, during the last five years. Sprint has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America in 2011, 2012 and 2013. You can learn more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com or www.facebook.com/sprintlatino andwww.twitter.com/sprint.

[i] Requires qualifying plan: Framily, Business Advantage Data Share, Business Advantage Choice
[ii] 5,000 minute maximum on international calling in a simple bill cycle. Sprint reserves the right to discontinue service to anyone who goes over that cap.
[iii] Includes reduced calling rates to most countries from the U.S., Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands