Sprint Offers $125 For You to Move to Sprint

Yesterday Sprint (NYSE:S) announced they added 1.1 million subscribers in Q4 2010.  Sprint reported 49.9 million wireless customers at the end of Q4 2010.

Today I’ve learned of a deal which Sprint hopes will raise those numbers to even higher levels for Q1 2011. If you move your current phone number to Sprint and purchase a device, Sprint will give you up to $125 in credit towards your monthly bill. You still need to sign a two-year contract with Sprint.

If you purchase a regular phone, Sprint will provide a credit of $50. If you purchase a smartphone, Sprint will provide a credit of $125. Sprint considers the following phones as smartphones, “Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile, Palm and Instinct Family of devices.”

On February 1, Sprint began charging a $10 “premium data” fee to all smartphones activated after this date. So you could say that this deal would provide a year free of the premium data fee.

What I don’t know is if you can port a Google Voice number over and still claim the $125. Sprint does say in their legal deal terms that, “Upgrades, replacements, add-a-phone/line transactions and ports made between Sprint entities or providers associated with Sprint are excluded (i.e. Virgin Mobile USA, Boost Mobile, Common Cents Mobile and Assurance).” If you can port any number over, this looks like a pretty hot deal. That is if you aren’t one of the billions of people around the U.S. on line to get a Verizon iPhone.