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This is the cell phone plan to get.

The problem is that you have to get a phones sold by Sprint which sucks.

Sim-cards is a great invention. Compare with computers, imagine if you bought a computer from Dell that would only be allowed to run on the Dell-DSL network and only allowed to run Dell-approved software. Not a great deal

True. Another problem is that the rest of the world uses GSM, so if you ever want to travel outside of the US you need a GSM phone.

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