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Over the last few months, my frustration with Att and with Apple has been growing. Yes, I said both: Att for its awful coverage and horrible pricing and Apple for its draconian control over the iPhone, and their apparent disregard for what their customers ask for (Google Voice Achem..)

I’ve found myself looking at new T-Mobile plans or new Sprint plans, and finally I decided to do a side by side comparison: T-Mobile vs Sprint vs Att vs Verizon. With T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon I compared their 1500 minute family plans with unlimited texting and data, and calculated the cost over the next two years. I included the cost of new phones on each carrier. With Att I simply plugged in our current rates.

The really striking thing was that Sprint, T-Mobile offered family services with data in the range that I was paying for my iphone plan with only 200 text messages a month for Jo and I, and with her have no data.

Both T-Mobile and Sprint offer out of the box family plans with texting and data, Verizon on the other hand included data at an additional cost over the phone service. Sprint and T-Mobile destroyed the comprable Verizon plan (coming in $1,000 dollars cheaper).

Verizon was eliminated due to the cost.

Sprint and T-Mobile were comperable. The Real difference was in the phone choice, we wanted android phones and Sprint has the EVO, the Moment, the Intercept and the HTC Hero.  T-Mobile has the MyTouch, the Cliq, the Vibrant, the Behold II, and the Garmin.

In reading the reviews of the different android phones, the Evo was the clear winner, and the rest of the phones offered by both providers seemed similar, so we settled on Sprint.

The icing on the cake was that because we are AAA member’s Sprint offered us a 10% discount on our monthly service. So even with the early termination fee from Att we were getting more service the same money.

Some of the benefits of switching:

• Unlimited Data for both of us
• Unlimited Mobile to Mobile calling with ALL carriers.
• Google Nav and Sprint Nav
• Unlimited Texting
• Better Reception (So far no dropped calls!)
• Sprints 4G network (coming in October)

So far I’m very  happy with my decision.