A Paradigm Shift in How Businesses Choose a Plan to Meet Their Needs; Built from the Ground up with Nextel Direct Connect Workgroup User Trends in Mind
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2009--In today's challenging economic environment, businesses need to pay only
for the tools that are critical to how they conduct business. With new
and unique Nextel Direct Connect(R) Custom Plans available from Sprint
(NYSE:S), businesses can do exactly that. They can easily select a plan
that includes the tools their workgroups use most and the flexibility to
add a bucket of minutes based on what will actually be used. The new
plans provide unlimited Direct Connect, Group Connect, Mobile-to-Mobile,
Text Messaging and Picture Mail, starting at $29.99 per month.
With other mobile providers, a business is asked to choose a plan based
on monthly anytime voice minutes required per user and then pay
incrementally for features such as push-to-talk, text messaging and
picture mail. While this approach makes sense for consumers, businesses
use mobile communications tools differently and need plans to address
the fact that most communication occurs between workgroup members. With
Nextel Direct Connect Custom Plans, the focus is on key services used
most by workgroups, which are bundled with unlimited usage, at a low
flat monthly rate. A business can then attach a bucket of anytime voice
minutes to be shared with the entire workgroup.
Specifically, businesses can choose from the following Nextel Direct
Connect Custom Plans:
- Unlimited Workgroup Communications -- with unlimited Direct Connect and
Group Connect(R) plus unlimited text messaging, mobile-to-mobile minutes
and night and weekend minutes starting at 9 p.m.
o $29.99 per month per line.
- Web & Navigation -- includes the above features, plus unlimited data,
Web browsing and GPS navigation
o $39.99 per month per line for Nextel phones.
o $49.99 per month per line for PowerSource and Nextel Direct Connect
capable Sprint phones.
- Pooled voice minutes can be added to either plan for the group to share
o 500 minutes for $30 per month per line.
o Or 2,000 minutes for $100 per month per line.
"This is a paradigm shift in how businesses select a wireless plan to
meet their business's needs," said Danny Bowman, president of Nextel
Direct Connect, Sprint. "We wanted to deliver more value to our
customers and offer Nextel Direct Connect Custom Plans for businesses
that wish to control costs without limiting communication. With
unlimited Nextel Direct Connect in every plan, businesses have a
powerful communication tool at their disposal at a predictable price. We
also don't limit how anytime minutes are shared and customers have the
flexibility to add minutes as their business needs require."
The new Nextel Direct Connect Custom Plans are initially available to
business-liable customers with Nextel Direct Connect-capable phones.
Sprint plans to offer these plans to consumers and individual-liable
accounts in the future.
About Nextel Direct Connect
With more than 15 years of expertise, Sprint is the undisputed leader in
push-to-talk with the largest community of users in the world. Nextel
Direct Connect has set the industry standard for push-to-talk and serves
millions of Nextel Direct Connect subscribers on the fastest national
push-to-talk network.
Nextel Direct Connect is the only push-to-talk product in the industry
that offers:
- Industry-leading performance with the advantage of instant connection
(call set-up times of less than one second)
- Connection to the world's largest community of users, with millions of
existing Nextel Direct Connect subscribers
- Nationwide and international push-to-talk services
- The largest portfolio of push-to-talk phones, including the largest
selection of rugged phones
- Integrated business solutions, including the largest selection of
GPS-solutions
For more information about Nextel Direct Connect, visit www.sprint.com/nexteldirectconnect.
ABOUT SPRINT NEXTEL
Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline
communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers,
businesses and government users. Sprint Nextel is widely recognized for
developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including
two wireless networks serving nearly 51 million customers at the end of
the third quarter 2008; industry-leading mobile data services; instant
national and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier
1 Internet backbone. For more information, visit www.sprint.com.
CONTACT: Sprint
Stephanie Greenwood
913-794-3658
Stephanie.greenwood@sprint.com
or
Kristin Wallace
404-649-1625
Kristin.c.wallace@sprint.com
Source: Sprint
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